Week 7: Interactive online resources for blended learning classrooms
Introducing Blendspace Welcome back to my ICT in TESOL blog! I hope you enjoyed reading my previous entry on Screencast-O-Matic. In this post, I would like to talk about a website that I think is very useful for interactive online resources for blended learning classroom – Blendspace! Blended learning The tool that I will discuss in this post is useful for supporting “blended learning” so it is best that I first briefly talk about it before we look at Blendspace later in details. According to Gruba and Hinkelman (2012, as cited in Gruba et al. 2016, p.135), “blended approach” in ELT refers to the teaching and learning process that incorporates the use of modern technologies and media in a face-to-face situation. Thus, if a teacher uses an online platform such as Blendspace to share reading materials and notes for their students before they come to the actual class, it is considered as a blended course. Here is a YouTube video on ‘blended learning’ if y...