Students Groups Creating Content Outside of Canvas
Finally, some instructors have developed highly clever and creative tasks for students--or allowed them to come up with their own ideas--to develop interactive content outside of Canvas and then link or integrate it with Canvas. Some examples:
- web pages
- blogs
- collaborative documents (Google docs)
- Dropbox or other cloud-based repositories of information
- social media accounts
- historical figure Facebook and Twitter pages - brilliant!
- collections of photographs and/or images
- newsletters
- instructional materials for "the next class"
- games
- instructional videos
Think about it:
- What if Vincent Van Gogh had a Facebook page? What would he post? How could other students (perhaps posing as other artists?) learn by "friending" him and interacting with him?
- What if students created an online blog or newsletter set in a particular historical period, country, or culture?
- What if students created a game that allowed their classmates to learn concepts by "mastering" each level of the game?
- How cool would you be in your students eyes if you encouraged this type of creativity and ownership of the course content?