{"id":633,"date":"2017-09-30T17:10:32","date_gmt":"2017-09-30T23:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adosclicks.net\/rafaelalba\/?p=633"},"modified":"2017-09-23T19:30:54","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T01:30:54","slug":"learned-blending-class-year-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.adosclicks.net\/rafaelalba\/2017\/09\/30\/learned-blending-class-year-4\/","title":{"rendered":"What I have learned from \u201cblending\u201d my class this year (4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/akinseagleseye.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/BLEND-web900-600.jpg\" alt=\"BLEND logo\" width=\"303\" height=\"206\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I promise that this &#8220;series&#8221; of post about blended-learning will also include some &#8220;tech tips&#8221; or &#8220;hints&#8221; related to the use of the Learning Management System that our District has provided to &#8220;blend&#8221; our classes.<\/p>\n<p>Our District has adopted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canvaslms.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Canvas<\/a> as the official LMS for the next few years. Actually, a customized version of Canvas called &#8220;BLEND&#8221;. <a href=\"https:\/\/connect-design-learn.org\/2017\/09\/20\/getting-started-with-blend\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BLEND<\/a> has been around for a few months now through <a href=\"http:\/\/kxan.com\/2017\/01\/03\/aisd-looks-to-anderson-high-school-to-pilot-virtual-classroom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">some schools that have been piloting the experience<\/a>, but this year it <a href=\"https:\/\/akinseagleseye.com\/sections\/news\/2017\/08\/14\/austin-isd-introduces-new-online-classroom-connection-tool\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has officially been deployed for all teachers<\/a>,\u00a0 students and families to use.<\/p>\n<p>What I have learned so far:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ol>\n<li>It is a good idea to create a Home page with the basic information, then organize your contents in Modules. Modules allow you to create &#8220;mini-contents&#8221; and step-by-step instructions that your students can follow.<\/li>\n<li>You can lock your modules until a certain date and publish them. In this way, you are not anticipating any content you do not want to show up before the right time.<\/li>\n<li>You can create a &#8220;pre-requisite&#8221; to unlock a module. For example, a student has to take a test or submit an assignment before being able to access the module.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The next post will contain some issues I have found so far, so you can avoid making the same mistakes&#8230; or not. Because, you know, nobody learns in other people&#8217;s head. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I promise that this &#8220;series&#8221; of post about blended-learning will also include some &#8220;tech tips&#8221; or &#8220;hints&#8221; related to the use of the Learning Management System that our District has provided to &#8220;blend&#8221; our classes. Our District has adopted Canvas&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.adosclicks.net\/rafaelalba\/2017\/09\/30\/learned-blending-class-year-4\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6538,6535,6533,6537],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blended-learning","category-learning-from-others","category-projects","category-tech-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.adosclicks.net\/rafaelalba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.adosclicks.net\/rafaelalba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.adosclicks.net\/rafaelalba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.adosclicks.net\/rafaelalba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.adosclicks.net\/rafaelalba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.adosclicks.net\/rafaelalba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":642,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.adosclicks.net\/rafaelalba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions\/642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.adosclicks.net\/rafaelalba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.adosclicks.net\/rafaelalba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.adosclicks.net\/rafaelalba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}