Title: Activity 4 (For a badge!): Assess a tool for best fit and share your results in a blog or vlog
Course: FLO MicroCourse - From Digital Literacy to Digital Fluency OER > Section: Day 4

Now that we have checked our biases and are we have adjusted or at least become more aware of our mindset, you can begin to assess educational tools to add to your toolkit. Once you find a potential tool, it will be assessed for how well it can help support your learning activity. How can an educational tool be assessed as a good fit to help support a learning outcome? Now that we have checked for any potential biases and we have adjusted, or we have at least become more aware of our mindset, we can move on to assessing educational tools to add to your toolkit. Once you find a potential tool, it will be assessed for how well it can help support your learning activity.

This activity provides a technique you can use to assess educational tools for best fit.

Activity 4 Instructions

1. Add a new topic in this blog/vlog.
2. Outline an activity you would like to do in your online, F2F, or hybrid course.
3. Describe an educational tool that will help facilitate that activity.
4. Use the attached “ Rubric for eLearning Tool Evaluation ” rubric to help you assess the merit of this tool.
5. Present your final choice here in a 200-word blog/vlog explaining your rationale.  Will you use it? Why or why not? Provide a few specific criteria from the rubric that most influenced your decision.

Now that we have checked our biases and are we have adjusted or at least become more aware of our mindset, you can begin to assess educational tools to add to your toolkit. Once you find a potential tool, it will be assessed for how well it can help support your learning activity.

How can an educational tool be assessed as a good fit to help support a learning outcome? Now that we have checked our biases and we have adjusted, or we have at least become more aware of our mindset, we can move on to assessing educational tools to add to your toolkit. Once you find a potential tool, it will be assessed for how well it can help support your learning activity.
This activity provides a technique you can use to assess educational tools for best fit.

 Complete this activity and earn a badge for the course. Be sure to bounce your choice off a Teaching and Learning Centre member, a FLO peer, or a colleague.

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