Izwan Nizal Mohd Shaharanee
Jastini Mohd Jamil
Blendspace: Blending your Classroom
with Digital Content
School Of Quantitative Sciences
Universiti Utara Malaysia
www.blendspace.com
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Blendspace: Blending your
Classroom with Digital Content
Izwan Nizal Mohd Shaharanee
Jastini Mohd Jamil
School of Quantitative Sciences
Universiti Utara Malaysia
2014
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Contents
Blendspace
Create and Discover
Creating a Lesson
Presenting a Lesson
Sharing, Privacy and Collaboration
Creating a Class
Creating a Quiz
Evaluating Your Class
Update Profile Info
References
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What is Blendspace:
Blendspace, formally known as Educanvas, is a FREE place
on the web for students and teachers to organize and
share information on the web, measure student under-
standing and track student progress in real time. It is a tool
which enables you to gather and curate resources and as-
sessments to share with students and/or colleagues.
CREATING LESSONS:
Create your own lesson and
engaging students with web
resources
ORGANIZE DIGITAL RESOURCES:
Collect web resources in one
place and share with just one
link
ASSESSING STUDENT:
Measure student under-
standing with built-in quizzes
TRACKING AND MONITORING:
Monitor student progress
and adapt to student
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How do Teachers use Blendspace?
http://www.scribd.com/doc/183181600/about-blendspace-handout
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Create and Discover
www.blendspace.com
1. Open www.blendspace.com
2. Click Signup.
3. Choose Im a teacher.
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Create and Discover
2. Create your first lessons.
1. You can register using
your own Google Ac-
count, Facebook or Cre-
ate a new account.
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Create and Discover
2. You can search lessons.
1. Discover and search other lessons.
3. Search results.
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Creating a lesson
2. Enter the lesson title.
3. Search related materials.
4. Pick a source.
5. Drag and drop materials into tile.
1. Click New Lesson.
(2)
(3,4)
(5)
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Creating a lesson
Searching for Materials:
You can easily add, insert, delete resources from all over
the web and from your computer.
Example: YouTube Search association rules
Search
results !!
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Creating a lesson
Arranging Materials:
1. Drag and drop contents.
2. Rename title and description.
6. Double-click on
your tile to add
notes or instructions.
7. New pop up win-
dow will appears.
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Presenting a lesson
1. Change layout and add colors.
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Presenting a lesson
2. Press play to view.
2. Collapse right-hand pane 3. Annotate with comments 4. Navigate using arrows
5. See whats ahead
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Sharing, Privacy and Collaboration
1. Click Share.
2. You can share your lesson using the given link or embed
on the web.
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Sharing, Privacy and Collaboration
1. Click Privacy.
2. Restrict the viewer
3. Control your resources
4. Collaborate (Premium User)
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Creating a Class
1. From your Home screen, Click on the Classes tab.
3. Sign up student using your class code.
2. Click Add Class button.
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Creating a Class
4. Direct your student to:
www.blendspace.com/register/student
5. Give the class code to your students.
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Creating a Class
6. Share a lessons with this class.
7. Choose the lesson from your space.
8. Lessons shared.
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Creating a Quiz
1. Hover over your blendspace and select Add quiz.
2. Enter a question.
3. Enter answer
choices. Mark the
correct answer.
4. Add more ques-
tions.
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Evaluating your class
1. From your Home screen, Click on the Lesson tab.
2. Choose lesson to evaluate.
3. Click More > Track.
4. Overview.
Track partcipaton Get Student Feedbacks
Evaluaton
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Update Profile Info
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References
1. http://www.scribd.com/doc/183181600/about-blendspace-
handout
2. https://www.blendspace.com/resources
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_5x3MW3p7A
4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QyoVsVH8i0
