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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Source. This is
your attribution to the authors of
the resource.
- 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.
- SITE. Our group’s
SPLOT is located at https://floaod.opened.ca/
- COLLECT. On the
left-hand menu, click Collect to go to the form where you can add your
blog post.
- FILL FORM. If you
collected the information listed above, then all you need to do is input
it into the form.
- Note that entering an
image is required.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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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