Week 4 - Blended Content and Assignments

"How can specific technologies help you...pitch integration to students in your blended course?" (Kelvin Thompson, Ed.D.(editor). BlendKit Reader v2 (Kindle Locations 1027-1028). Kindle Edition.) When I first read this I was not sure what the authors meant, but I think it is referring to getting students to buy into the fact that the online components of the class have value and are an integral piece of the class, not just an opportunity for the instructor to not show up in the classroom.

Consistency between the face-to-face components and the online components of a blended course is a challenge. I believe one of the factors is that it is often difficult to know in advance exactly how much of the content will be covered in the face-to-face sessions because there are so many variables to consider and so many things that could go wrong that would require some extra time for assignments, etc.

I really appreciated "Table 2. Learning activity types with technology-integration ideas" (Kelvin Thompson, Ed.D.(editor). BlendKit Reader v2 (Kindle Location 1111). Kindle Edition. ) that shows a variety of learning activities that could be implemented. This would be a great resource for faculty who are trying to get to a certain objective, but who aren't sure what kinds of activities might be possible for students to do.

I was not previously aware of the National Center for Accessible Media, so that is something I plan to check out in further detail with future projects.