How could I forget Blendspace?

One of our 4th grade teachers, Mrs. Anderson, shared a website called Blendspace to our staff this past Friday. We had learned about it at our Digital Curriculum workshop at Lakes Country but I don't think I blogged about it - and she reminded me of HOW. GREAT. IT. IS:)!! In literally a matter of minutes, you are able to merge SO much information about any topic you would EVER want. What the site does is it allows you to put in websites, videos, pictures, etc.. and keep adding more and more. After you share the URL with the kiddos, they can access all the information in ONE place - GENIUS:!)

Here's a sample one that I have started for the 2014 Winter Olympics -

On the left hand side is your work space where you choose what you want to do and what it will look like, while the right hand side has all the options and allows you to do all the searching right here! How easy for you to now take this URL and paste onto your Schoology page, Moodle site, etc.. LOVE. IT!

Happy Thursday,
Mrs. I:)

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