Today we enjoyed a very motivating blended learning class and we discovered new things to do with websites that we already knew. Click on the pictures to explore the websites.
We discussed the activities we can also create to add to those exercises on the websites in order to make our class a blended learning class. The key is thinking skills, you can'nt do everything in class, it is a question of selection, you have to select the tool of technology that suits best for your class.
The second part of the morning was dedicated to think about how we can use the wall on Edmodo to get our students engaged. Lots of ideas arose such as:
- Comments on a photo.
- Finish a sentence.
- Alphabet chain.
- Word of the day.
- Favourite TV series.
- Top five books/films.
- How do you feel ? You can write any word except FINE.
- Paraphrasing.
- Comments on a video.
- Answering questions.
- What would you like to talk about in your next class?
- Date: what happened today in history?
- Feedback.
- Controversial statements.
- What book are you reading at the moment?
- Describe your journey to work.
- What's the best/strangest story of the week that happened to you?
- Write a meaningful sentence using these three words.
- Cartoons.
- Polls for further discussions.
All this kind of activities shoud be done once a week, but NOT every day as students can be stressed with lots of tasks every day, for example it is good to do it every Monday morning.
After that we worked on how assignments work and how we can order all the content we upload in folders. Using Edmodo is very intuitive, but we always have to take into account that we have to be precise with the name of the videos and the folders in order to find them easily. Another good thing about Edmodo is that if you want that something appears always at the top of your Edmodo page, you can pin it. If you are working for a company you can pin your company logo or even if you are a teacher you can pin the logo of your school.
Wow! The time has flown today and this is my idea of the day: content is what generates learning.
Working on the Blended Learning course
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