This website is a way to digitally collect and store content for lessons in one place, create interactive lessons to share with your class, and/or asses with digital quizzes. I found it most useful for lesson planning. It gives you the capability of dragging and dropping all of your lesson resources into one place. You can give each lesson a name and then drag and drop resources from just about anywhere. They make it easy to find and add your resources by having links on the site for searching Google, YouTube, Flickr, and Gooru. You can also search in the main search box and it will give you resources from all over the web. They have buttons to easily add a website, up load files or media, or insert from Dropbox or a GDrive. Something I was also impressed with and thought was useful is the button they have for Common Core standards. When you click on it you can search subject areas and grade level and it will bring up the Common Core standards for you. You can really save all of your worksheets, videos, lesson plans and so on for the topic all in one place to access at any time. You can share your Blendspace lessons with other teachers and collaborate together on them. You also are able to print your resources out. The website gives you the capability of having a class account that students can join and view materials you set up for them as well. I love how they have the website set up so that you can see all of your resources together at the same time. Overall, I think Blendspace is a great resource. Blendspace was very easy to use and figure out pretty quickly. I played with it for a while and created a trial lesson with many resources easily. I would consider this website to be versatile because you can use it for yourself only as a teacher to store all your resources for lessons in one place, or you can set it up as a classroom where students can join and then read and see resources you want them to. You also can use it to assess your students as they interact with the resources your provide them. I could definitely see myself using this website as a teacher. I would most likely use it in the capacity of bringing together all my resources for a lesson topic into one place and saving them for ease of use.
Tiffany, I like the multiple colors in your word circle! Great job posting useful videos and organizing everything so that it is attractive to the eye. -Elise
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Tiffany, I like the multiple colors in your word circle! Great job posting useful videos and organizing everything so that it is attractive to the eye.
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Thanks! Those word clouds are so fun!
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