Blendspace: The Perfect Tool to Create and Curate Differentiated Professional Development

Blendspace is a free web tool for teachers to collect resources in one place to form a bundled, interactive lesson for students or colleagues.  Educational consultants can use this same tool to create and curate differentiated professional development for their clients.  Any resource you can imagine or that you would pull together to share can be embedded into a Blendspace lesson or module.  To get the most out of Blendspace you'll want to create a class, or group, and add the names of the students or clients. This allows the Blendspace owner to create assessments to gauge understanding or to provide opportunities for descriptive feedback throughout the lesson or module.

Some of the best features of Blendspace - assessing and tracking progress - requires users to have an account.  This allows them to make comments or ask questions throughout the lesson or module.  As a presenter, you'll have data on who accessed your lessons, how participants have performed on assessments or surveys, and who needs assistance or additional information, and how participants feel about your presentations.

As an educational consultant, you can use Blendspace to host handouts, websites, and resources at your next workshop, inservice faculty meeting, or teacher professional development session. Blendspace's organizational structure allows you to place resources in the order in which they will be presented.  The tool also allows you to write a description of how each tile in the Blendspace is utilized.  One of my favorite Blendspaces in the Gallery is the Problem Based Learning lesson. Check it out!