What to include and leave out in a workshop on Blended Learning?
I will be giving a workshop to elementary day school and hebrew school teachers on blended learning in the Judaic classroom. My goal is to encourage using both technology and live classes to increase collaboration, creativity and learning.
I am splitting the workshop into two parts
a) pedagogical reasons for blended learning
b) blended learning tools
I don't want to overwhelm teachers who are learning about edtech for the first time and don't want to bore those who know about technology.
I plan to introduce blogs, wikis, prezi, discussion boards, screencasting, online quizzes & flashcards, games, socrative, voicethread, and apps as well as twitter and linkedin for professional development
Are there any other tools that I have missed that I should include? Anything I should leave out?
Any concepts that are key?
I'd love any feedback
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Comment by Shira Leibowitz on October 16, 2012 at 5:02pm -
Sounds impressive, Shira! Quite a lot of information to be shared. I wonder what support teachers will have as they experiment with some of the tools and approaches you present in your workshop. Perhaps you could create an on-line forum in which participants can connect after the workshop; reaching out to you and to each other as questions arise. At times we can be energized by a high quality learning experience and then become frustrated if we don't have appropriate supports to follow through.
While there are many formats through which you could connect participants, I'd invite you to consider forming a group - perhaps "ed tech support" on YU2.0 and invite participants to join. Whether or not YU2.0 works for follow up for the teachers in your workshop, I do hope you'll share materials from your presentation with the YU2.0 community. I look forward to the learning!
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Comment by Michael Bitton on October 18, 2012 at 4:25pm -
This is great! I am actually planing a workshop on the same topic in the coming months. I'd love to know how it goes and what the agenda will be. What you have mentioned looks great, and I think the tools your planning to introduce will be more than enough to get started. As you mentioned I thinking stressing the pedagogical aspect to me should be the most important part of the workshop as well as data or examples showing that type of classroom in session. What about Google forms embeded with a link to the video to supplement the video aspect of online learning? TedED is also great resource which allows you to create videos with guided questions on the side as they watch. Good luck!
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Comment by Shira Hochheimer on November 16, 2012 at 2:59am -
Thanks for the feedback!
Here is the prezi I will be presenting on Sunday, Bezras Hashem. there is no narration, which I may add at a later date. It is probably too long, but I was having a lot of fun with prezi and got to really explore the topic. I can cut out some parts as needed.
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