Blend Space Learning Activity

Blended Learning Activity

        Hi, guys! On this post, I would like to share a bit about blended learning activity. Maybe you are asking what it is, what the function is. Okay, let’s check it out.

         I have made 1 blended learning activity. The topic of my lesson is about music and song. Why I choose this topic is because almost all people in this whole world like to listen to the music, then what they are listening to is a song for sure. Then, what the goal of the activity? The activity is designed to help students practice their listening about music and song, and understand the form as well as the function of gerund and infinitive when talking about someone’s hobby because listening to the music is also a hobby everyone might have.

        The learners are specifically for junior high school students on 8^th grade who are 13 years old. However, the lesson can be also for all ages. They are taking this class either because they like everything about music, and they want to know deeper about music and song or they are obliged by the curriculum on their school.

          Things what students have to do in my Blendspace are:

1.   Listening to a video about someone’s opinion about music.

2.  Listening to a video about “Why music is important”.

3.  Listening to a video about the definition of some parts of a song.

4.  Taking note based on the video on the number 3.

5.  Doing an exercise based on the video given (video number 3).

6.  Analyze the chorus, verse, and bridge in a song.

7.  Listening to a video about gerund and infinitive.

8.  Doing an exercise about gerund and infinitive.

The students should spend on the activities number 1 up to 6 in the class for 2 lesson hours. Thus, the activity number 7 and 8 can be done after class. However, it should be submitted on the next meeting without any reason of not finishing it. The instruction of each slide is already clearly stated. So, it is a ready-to-use activity for other teachers who have the same topic and want to teach it to their students. Further instructions of the activities are not needed anymore.

Of course, I will apply this kind of technique to teach my students (either in the school or in private). I like music and I think every person also likes music. So, it will be easier for me to teach about music. In addition, if my students later are my private students in playing drum (it will be very fun learning activity). What I like from Blendspace is the concept of the slides. Blendspace allows the teacher to attach a video or text or even a quiz for the students. It also allows the teacher to write the description of each slide, so it will save the teacher’s energy in explaining the materials given in the class. Moreover, it will make the students understand what to do with the slides even the students are not in class or do not meet the teacher directly. For the students, I think, they will react to this technique well because they are not obliged to ask the teacher for many times for both the explanation and the exercise. This kind of technique is very helpful for the teacher in preparing lesson and providing varied resources for their students. The teacher can browse in the internet about the exercises, then the teacher can find lots of variation of exercises s(he) can use for the students. The teacher can also browse the materials in the internet to find a lot of way in explaining the materials which will not make the students become bored. It will be a fun teaching instead of a flat teaching.

The aspect of the tool that can be improved is the searching process, especially in searching process in the video. It shows different order of results when we are searching in the Blendspace space and directly in www.youtube.com. I think that’s all about what should be improved. The rest is already good and suitable.

I think it is enough. Hope you enjoy and can try it on your own.

Here is my Blendspace activity: (I provide both the link and the citation)

https://www.tes.com/lessons/CiFSNGz5_LmoHA/music

Happy Reading and Jesus bless you.