Blendspace

Review on

Blendspace

By: Karen Mayes

What is Blendspace?

Weakness

Strengths

Key Features

Intended Audience

Conclusion

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Supporting Artifacts

Usability

Improvements

What is Blendspace?

A digital learning platform for teachers to use to create interactive lessons.

Teachers can collect, annotate, and share digital resources in one place. "Easiest way to blend your classroom with digital content" - Anachal Agrawal

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Intended Audience

Teachers

Students

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in K-12

Key features

• Create interactive lessons
• Search for pre-made interactive lessons
• Assess students in real-time
• Class discussion on the slides

Strengths

• Works on any device
• Class discussion feature
• Great for making lessons for students to view at home
• Great for incorporating more blended learning into a classroom

Weakness

• ONLY a class discussion feature
• Can be overwhelming for students when they are provided too many resources and no time to process and reflect
• No education filter in the search for images, videos, etc.
• Had issues with uploading my own video content into blendspace grid

Usability

• User friendly
• Versatile
• Navigation is simple

Improvements

• Search Filters
• Private student messaging
• More quiz option styles

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Supporting Artifacts

Ex 2: Digital Storytelling

Ex 1: Flipping the Classroom

Ex 3: Collaborative Research Presentation

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Conclusion

This is a great tool to help flip a classroom, present student projects or for building interactive lessons

What the reviews have to say:

Commonsense.org rating & Community reviewers rating

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Blendspace

Click the images to zoom in the picture. Last image is a link to an example lesson

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