Blendspace

My Blendspace presentation

My Blendspace walkthrough

Purpose and usefulness of Blendspace

• The purpose of Blendspace is to create a guided lesson or presentation, or can also be used to gather resources on a particular topic.
• Teachers can use it  to to create a guided lesson or presentation, that students can complete at their own pace.
• Itcan also be used to gather resources on a particular topic so that when students are starting research they have a narrower starting point.
• Students can create interactive presentations for peers, not only giving information in the form of text or pictures, but also video, voice, and assessing through quizzes.

Advantages

• It is very easy, very straight forward to use.
• It has tools built in to the editing screen to gather resources; you can search youtube videos or the web from the same screen and drag the thumbnails over.
•  It is free

Disadvantages

• The only disadvantage I could think of is that it does load slowly at times depending on the connection.