Week 7 Blended Learning

Flipped Classroom Learnig

Flexible environment

a shift in Learning culture (teacher centred to student centred)
Intentional content (evaluate what needs to taught directly usually by video- focussed and to the point)
Professional educators

Blendspace

Blendspace is an easy-to-use platform for creating multimedia lessons that can be accessed online. Using a drag-and-drop interface, can organize videos, text, links, images, and quizzes into cubes, then organize them to create lessons, or "canvases, " for your students to complete independently. Can be shared with colleagues

Ted-ed Tools

There are four elements, Watch, Think, (teachers can create multiple choice or short answer questions), Dig Deeper, (provide more information), and Discuss (prompts for online discussions).

Edpuzzle

Statistics video with added questions for students as they watch it.

https://edpuzzle.com/media/57204cf952424c9a4bf931d3

Leading online discussions

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Distributed Leadership

Action by many people working collectively across the institution to build leadership capacity in learning and teaching.
Distributed leadership is the knowledge of the crowd

Wicked problems

Unsolvable, unstoppable,      eg poverty
In class task: To discuss solutions to out chosen 'wicked problem' and present on G+.

 


The final presentation was done on Mac Pages. This was a new tool and I was really pleased with the final format. Unfortunately the photo is just a screenshot so not as clear as a published copy would be.