Make Lessons Worth Sharing
Design Pattern Tags : Flipped classroom, Online learning
Make Lessons Worth Sharing December 2015
Make Lessons Worth Sharing explains course concepts through TED videos. TED-ED enables lecturers to create lessons and share the videos as educational resources.
Rationale TED videos assist students to identify course concepts and scaffold on their existing learning.
Learners/Context TED Videos provide students with a variety of learning resources and activities, similar to those offered by textbook publishers. They can be deployed as self-directed learning or for group work as a starting point of discussion. There are three ways to use TED-ED lessons in your course:
Use existing TED-ED lesson.
Scaffold from an existing TED-ED lesson.
Create your own TED-ED lesson.
Alignment TED Videos assist students to discover course concepts.
Instructions/Processes Prior to Semester
Use Existing TED-ED lessons
Find existing TED-ED lessons . You don’t need an account to browse or access the lessons. The lessons are divided into categories.
Select the lesson.
Lessons consists of several elements, which the TED-ED creators have set up along a ‘flipped classroom’ (similar to watch) process:
Watch - you watch the video.
Think - includes multiple choice and short answer questions to test understanding. A user needs to be logged in to complete these
Dig Deeper - further resources on the topic.
Discuss - guided discussions (to participate a user must be logged in) or where others can start open discussions. Again this is where you can find inspiration for tutorial discussions, or for BlackBoard forum discussions around your topic.
From BlackBoard link directly to the TED-ED lessons.TED-ED lesson
Scaffold from an existing TED-ED Lesson
Select a TED-ED lesson and adapt it for your own course.
Set up an account on the TED-ED site. You can choose to sign up with your university email or with a personal email. It is your choice but keep in mind that you may not always have the same university email.
Verify your account and logged in.
Proceed to the lesson of your choice and at the bottom on the right.
Click on Customize This Lesson. The interface that appears is very user-friendly.
Change all of the sections except for the Watch section. Create your own content in the Think, Dig Deeper and Discuss sections or exclude any of these sections.
On completion, press the Publish button.
Copy the link to your BlackBoard site.
Create your own TED-ED Lesson
Participate in the TED-ED community by contributing and sharing your lessons.
Ensure you are logged in and click on the Create a Lesson button.
Do a search for the video you want to use.
Select the video.
Select Launch the Lesson Editor. The Lesson Editor is very straightforward and you can edit each of the sections in turn. Tip: Start off by making “your” Lesson title nice and catchy. For the purpose of discoverability, you may want to include the university name and/or course code.Note that at the top you have two decisions to make about how your lesson will be shared once it is finished:
Will it be listed? This means will it be discoverable on the TED-ED site for anyone to see.
Will you let it be customized? This means will you let other people use your lesson as a base to create their own.
On completion, press Publish button.
Copy the link to your BlackBoard site.
Regularly check back to the TED-ED site to obtain the analytics on the frequent use of your lesson.
EXTENSION
Use any video on YouTube! TED-ED have recently expanded their platform, so now you can use any YouTube video to begin constructing a lesson.
Conditions/Critical Success Factors Knowledge of course concepts.
ICT skills and Blackboard.
Resources/ Technology
