How do I get started?A beginner's guide to Blended Learning:

What’s my purpose with this tool?

Olivia SkibinskiConnect 2015@oliviammolina

Why Blended Learning?

• Helps teacher’s/students with organization

• Students can collaborate

• Students have differentiated content

• Students usually like it -

My personal challenge this year blog post….

Get connected

• With your board

• With your teaching partners or someone at school

• Coursehelp.ca

• With YouTube - here’s a great channel

Give the students access

• Website, username, password

Username, password not sure how to get initial one? I reset their passwords to something they could remember.

What can you do?

• Lit Circle Meetings• Group Meetings and

discussions on line• Ministry content and

activities

Weekly themes

• Media Monday

• Imagination Monday

• Current events

IEP students

• Widgets can be personalized!

• Differentiation• IEP students can

have their own space that no oneelse can access

Timely feedback

• Rubrics and Dropbox• Mark assignments with the

D2L assignment grader Ap for Ipad

• You can automatically see late, time stamped assignments

• Feedback is tracked and documented for student accountability

This student resubmitted his assignment after receiving feedback!

D2L ap on ipad, less paper to bring home!

BlogsConnect with other classrooms in the

board

Grade 7/8 Example

Grade 4/5 Example

So helpful for combined grades!!!!

Math Assignment

Upload your lessons!

Grade 7 Tasks

• Discussion forum and knowledge building

• Improving the writing process: Blog Post