To recap the main ideas we had been discussing throughout the course, we were requested to state the 10 golden rules of BL or what you might well call the 10 commandments of BL.
- Balance: Don't overload students. Think about what is essential and what is extra. If you put something in, then you take sth out.
- Aim:Think about your aims first and the technology afterwards. Take into account the affordances of each tool. Your choice will be driven by your teaching and learning principles. Sometimes they can also be grammar oriented, especially to reach a higher leve.
- Blend: Link what goes on in the class and the world outside. Focus on the learner. What matters is what goes in their heads.
- Bloom: Review our own classes. Check your activities against the SAMAR model. Higher thinking skills should take place in the class, lower thinking skills can be set for homework.
- Technology: Stick to a few technologies and learn them well, explore the possibilities and be consistent when using it. Do not try out lots of them superficially and keep changing them.
- Multimodal: Enlarge the modes information is delivered. The interactions that take place in a lesson should be engaging with different materials and people. Attacking an issue from different angles. richard Maryer's ideas. Care for visual, audio and kinesthetic learners.
- Flipping Flipping is scalable. Not everything in one go!
- VLE: Choose a user-firendly VLE. Labelling and organization are of utmost importance.
- SGC: Always use Student Generated Content for some kind of activity ( discussions, presentations....). Don't leave it in isolation.
- Screencasting: an effective way of providing enriching feedback.
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