Title: Experience 5: SPLOT - Share Your favourite AOD Resource
Course: FLO MicroCourse: Write a compelling discussion prompt 2024 > Section: DAY 1 - EXPERIENCE

Add a post to a SPLOT (a course blog) that shares your favourite resource for designing of facilitating an online discussion.

The Task

A SPLOT (smallest possible learning online tool) is a blog site where the blog entries are not curated from only one person, but rather where anyone can contribute. This is useful when collating contributions from students in a course in a way that is public (i.e., it will outlive the course and can be shared with people outside of the course).

Your task is to identify and then share your favourite resource on asynchronous online discussions. This may be a tip sheet developed by a teaching and learning centre, a website, a book, a journal article, a figure, a platform, a document created by a colleague or yourself.

Together, we will assemble a repository of our favourite resources, which we can refer to later when it is time to design an AOD.

To contribute your favourite resource, you will need to assemble and prepare the following information.

1. A title for your resource. Consider something descriptive about your resource.
e.g., “Online discussion resource” will probably not differentiate your resource from others’, but “Bloom taxonomy and Prompt verbs” will be specific to your resource.
2. An image. This will be used as thumbnail to show, at a glance, all of our contributions, and allow viewers to choose which resource they would like to view.
You can get images that has a creative commons license on websites such as Pexel and the Creative Commons Search Engine.
You can also take a representative screenshot of your document, save it as an image, and upload that image.

1. Alternative text. Consider describing the image in a few words.
People who experience the SPLT using a screen reader may not be able to see the images, but they can have the image described to them by their screen reader.
2. Description of the resources. Here, include a brief description of what the resource consists of and/or how you might use it to design of facilitate an AOD. Don’t forget to include a link to the resource if it is available online.
3. Source. This is your attribution  to the authors of the resource.
4. License. Check whether there is a Creative Commons (CC) license attached to the resource or whether it is copyrighted by the authors.

The Post

Once you have assembled all required information, you are ready to add your blog post of our course SPLOT.

Here are the steps to follow. The instructions are also provided in a video below.

1. SITE. Our group’s SPLOT is located at https://floaod.opened.ca/
2. COLLECT. On the left-hand menu, click Collect to go to the form where you can add your blog post.
3. FILL FORM. If you collected the information listed above, then all you need to do is input it into the form.
  1. Note that entering an image is required.
  2. While entering a description is not a requirement of the SPLOT blog, it is a requirement in this FLO course, so that colleagues may know what your favourite resource is about.
4. CHECK & REVIEW. Click this button at the end. This allows you to review your post before you make it public. You can then preview the post.
5. SHARE NOW. If you are satisfied with the post, click Share Now. Voila! Your post is now a part of the course blog. You should receive a message attesting to the success of your contribution. You can also click on Home in the left-hand menu to view the growing list of resources and look for your own (the latest resource to be added to the blog should be the top left-most one icon).
6. COMMENT ON COLLEAGUES’ POSTS. Browse through the thumbnails of the posts of your colleagues and select at least 3 to explore in more depth. You should comment on one colleague's posts, explaining an idea that arose about how you might use AODs from this resource. Note that submitting a comment (completing the Feedback form at the end of a blog post) requires you to submit your name and email address, but your email address will not appear on the website - only I will see it to moderate the comments.

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