Blendspace | Create & Find Free Multimedia Lessons
Blendspace offers a tool to educators who wish to create online lessons for their learners. The tool supports different educational praxis including a Flipped Classroom approach, a Socratic teaching method, and a tool to follow an elaborative path providing educational scaffolding. Blendspace offers flexibility for learners and considerable options for educators when it comes to building and executing lessons.
Educators have the ability to plug-and-play with videos, PDFs, PowerPoints, websites, Dropbox files, quizzes, images, text and forums, which are placed in an organized, easy-to-follow grid. Lessons are easy to create, customize, share and edit. Learners can access lessons with a wifi connection. Full participation in lessons is possible without an account, with the exception of in-platform forums. Educators can create classrooms, add their students to those spaces and track progress.
Blendspace allows educators a platform to contain many different kinds of learning tools. All content for each lesson is collected in one place, in easy-to-follow blocks. In-platform tools are available to monitor progress and understanding.
Blendspace can support teaching praxis in several ways including:
- Access to several resources and modalities within a central digital location (time-saver)
- Adaptable for workstations (assign groups to square numbers)
- Provides students a resource to review, complete in their own time (for students who need more time or more challenge)
- Creation of convenient study guides (students can collaborate and pull from multiple resources)
- Limited preparation required for student use (central action, all elements housed together, click-through)
In addition to creating lessons from scratch, Blendspace offers a free Lessons Library and resources users can use or adopt in their own lesson development.
