Create Digital Lessons with Blended Learning

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Hello everyone, welcome back to my blog! 😊

In this blog I'm going to talk about a tool which allows you to create your own online materials and lesson plans for your students. 
Blended learning is an approach which allows you to interact with students online while still being able to use traditional
classroom methods. It's the perfect choice of approach for online teaching lessons.
Today's online teaching tool is called Blendspace.  Blendspace.com (now known as TES Teach) is an online tool through the education curriculum company TES.com.  
BLEND






With Blendspace, you can:


  1.  Independently facilitate your students with exercises, activities and quizzes
  2. Allow student autonomy
  3. Provide one-on-one feedback to the students
  4. Create your own materials and present them in the class or online
  5. Build activities and lessons
If you love being organised like me, having your lesson completed in one place will make everything much more easy!
Additionally, you can search for materials related to your teaching topic and then incorporate them into your lesson! 
This video further explains how to create your digital lessons:






Advantages of Blendspace:

  • You can incorporate PowerPoint's,YouTube videos and much more in your lesson plan with only one click
  • You can create multiple-choice quizzes throughout a lesson bundle 
  • Teachers can track student's progress and work accomplished
  • Students can comment on the teacher's work
  • When you are a user, you can explore what other users have published (and you can even save some of them!)
  • Unlimited possibilities for building lessons
  • Also available on all devices (phones, computers, tablets) in the App Store and Chrome Web-Store
  • IT'S FREE!!😎

Disadvantages:

  • No disadvantages found so far!

Examples on how to use Blendspace: 






For more tips & ideas visit: https://www.tes.com/lessons/tips








Thank you once again for reading my blog! You can comment below your thoughts on this tool or any suggestions for future blog topics! 😀


Comments

Kamal Shafie said…
Hi Vera!

This is a very interesting post on 'Blendspace'! I love how you have summarised the different ways of using Blendspace and its advantages in your entry. I agree with you that one of the best feature about using Blendspace is that we can organised and keep all of our teaching materials for a lesson in one place. I would love to try using Blendspace in my teaching context and see how well does it work with my students. Again, thank you for your sharing. 😀
30 April 2020 at 16:10
Vera Hannadjia said…
Hello Kamal! Thank you for commenting, I'm glad you liked the post. 😊 I look forward to incorporating Blendspace into my lessons as well! Let me know how it goes!
1 May 2020 at 17:41
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