Blendspace-by-tes
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The document provides tips and ideas for using Blendspace, an online tool for creating digital lessons. It suggests 13 ways to use Blendspace, such as delivering lessons with multiple online resources, flipping the classroom, and challenging advanced students. The document also gives instructions for creating a Blendspace lesson, such as searching for content, dragging items into tiles, and adding notes and instructions to tiles.
Blendspace-by-tes
- 1. Create Lessons in 5 Minutes QUICK START GUIDE www.tes.com/lessons
- 2. www.tes.com/lessons 13 ideas for using Blendspace BLENDSPACE QUICK START GUIDE Why use Blendspace? Save time by keeping all videos, links, documents and other digital media for your lessons in one easy (and free!) place. Ensure your students achieve their fullest potential by differentiating instruction and lessons according to diverse needs. Deepen student engagement and 21st century learning when your kids create their own Blendspace lessons for individual and collaborative projects — the sky’s the limit! Boost the fun factor when you present anything, whether during class time or meetings with peers. Share your expertly crafted lessons and curated content that other educators can use with their students. A+ This list is just a starting point – the possibilities are endless. Discover more ideas in our Gallery of awesome lessons created by educators: www.tes.com/lessons/gallery 1. Deliver lessons composed of multiple digital resources during class without losing any instructional time. 2. Create lessons for students to review on their own during class or at home (flipping the classroom). 3. Set up work stations where students go through different Blendspace lessons or specific parts of a lesson (or have some students review lessons while you’re talking with the rest). 4. Provide remediation to students by having them go back to lessons on concepts they didn’t understand. 5. Challenge more advanced students by adding optional content to a lesson or providing extra lessons. 6. Make study guides on key topics. 7. Administer quizzes and track comments to assess student understanding. 8. Use lessons as a virtual corkboard of student work that can be shared with anyone including parents. 9. Task students with creating their own lessons within a project (e.g. digital storytelling, autobiographies, web quests, presentations, plus many more). 10. Enable students to collaborate with each other on projects and presentations. 11. Prompt online discussions among students, allowing them to share questions and comments in each lesson. 12. Make presentations during department/grade team meetings, PLCs, PD sessions, workshops, and conferences. 13. Store and share many links, videos, PDFs, presentations, and other digital content in a more engaging way.
- 3. www.tes.com/lessons BLENDSPACE QUICK START GUIDE How to create a Blendspace 1 Click New Lesson. 2 Title your lesson. 3 Search for relevant content in TES (our marketplace of original teaching resources created by educators), YouTube, Google, Flickr, Gooru, and other sites.
- 4. www.tes.com/lessons BLENDSPACE QUICK START GUIDE How to create a Blendspace 4 Drag and drop desired content from search results into a tile. 5 Add your own content by dragging and dropping any file from your computer to a tile or by clicking the upload media/file tab. 6 Double-click tile to add a title, notes, and instructions.