BLENDSPACE: THE ONLINE CLASSROOM BLENDER

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          Blendspace is a web tool that engages users to create lessons from dragging or blending in resources by searching, inserting or uploading different media from YouTube, Google Web and Images, Flickr, Gooru, Google Drive, Dropbox and your computer. It allows teachers and students to gather, comment and share online resources. A good feature about it is that we are able to add a quiz, monitor the students’ progress and include Common Core Standards.

          Blendspace lets you create lessons within five minutes! Users may gather online resources in one place and share with just a single link at ease. Blendspace offers unlimited classes and has two specific subscription plans: Blendspace Free and Blendspace Premium. Just like other web tools, the first plan is free but has limited access to some other tools such as limited students and active lessons. Meanwhile, Blendspace Premium allows users to have unlimited students, unlimited active lessons, account administration features, voice comments, private webinar training and priority email. However, Blendspace Premium costs $4 monthly. Just like the usual web tools, secure internet connection is a must to enjoy using Blendspace.

          Blendspace, all in all, is an online and interactive lesson that makes a good blend for online classroom discussions and project ideas. For Blendspace newbies, check out its huge digital presentations shared publicly for guides and resources. I am pretty sure that you will enjoy surfing the net with Blendspace just like how it made me hooked into it.

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GETTING STARTED WITH BLENDSPACE

Enter the website of Blendspace.
Either Log In into an existing account or Sign Up to create an account for free.

This is your Dashboard. You can either create or join a class and a create a new lesson. Featured Lessons may help you as guides and resources. You may also look into the Gallery for more lessons shared publicly.


In creating a new lesson, you may enter the title of your lesson.


This is how the interface looks like when creating a new lesson.


You can add the Common Core Standards of your lesson.

You can edit the template and theme of your presentation.



On the right side, you can search, upload or insert different resources into your lesson.
Here are the 3 steps:

STEP 1


Here are the following tools to find resources:


STEP 2


STEP 3


Drag and drop the resources in a particular box. You may also add labels and text in a box.


You can also add a quiz into a box.


Once you are done creating a lesson, you may play to view and share your work.




 Viewers can play your presentation or manually click each box to view the content.

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MY BLENDSPACE PRODUCT

Check out the link to my Blendspace product about Clouds.

 https://www.tes.com/lessons/o-YbtloxFqIdrQ/science-4-4-3-clouds

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RESOURCES

Blendspace Review
https://edshelf.com/tool/blendspace/

Comments

  1. Unknown15 March 2016 at 00:09

    Hi Maria! Thank you for providing us with a very detailed walkthrough on getting started with Blendspace. Interesting lesson on clouds, btw :)

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  2. Gloria Curameng-Hocog15 March 2016 at 03:34

    Hello!
    Love your topic and walkthrough!
    Hope to see you soon and your cute, pretty angel!
    Good Job!
    Take care!

    ReplyDelete

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