Blendspace: Easily Create Lessons from Digital Content12/30//2013
Along with a growing number of teachers, you probably post
and distribute content to your students online. Cloud storage drives, such as Dropbox or
Google Drive, allow you to post files for your students to access. You can send
them to YouTube, TeacherTube or other sites to watch videos and you can certainly give them
links to various content-specific websites you’ve come to rely upon.
But there are several problems with this approach that you may have discovered by now:
Digital content management made easy:
Blendspace (formerly Edcanvas) was the second in a set of
educational technologies that I introduced during the UC Berkeley
History-Social Science’s Summer Institute on “Using Media and Primary Sources
in Instruction”. This web tool directly
tackles the issues of content management, lesson construction, presentation and
student tracking. (See my posts on Diigo and VoiceThread for the other two.)
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