We wanted to make sure that every profession out there gets to use BudURL to its fullest potential. There are many arguments out there for technological advances and a free, open internet for educational purposes. Well, you guessed it, BudURL can be used in the classroom too.
Many teachers are already using blogs, online videos and articles to add to the classroom. Our intern’s older brother is a high school teacher and he has his own blog that he uses to keep students up-to-date on assignments, class schedules and current topics. Universities and colleges are using programs such as Blackboard to post grades, assignments, etc. But the ultimate question is, are students using it?
Teachers, now you can know.
Shrink those horribly long urls from your syllabus and keep track of when students are using them. Then you can know if these articles, videos and blogs are valuable sources to your students. And better yet, you can improve them. For example, if you’re seeing in one week that tons of students are clicking through to one video, you can begin your class discussions around that video. And for the future, post videos that are similar.
Also, a long complaint of teachers and students has been broken urls. Teachers try to post a url that’s 3 lines long! And yet somehow those last 5 characters get left off. How much more efficient would it be to say, “Go to BudURL.com/HowToWriteAPaper”. Now your students can’t complain about not being able to remember the link or not being able to access the site.
We’d like to know if BudURL is helping you in the classroom, and if there are any other ways that you’re using it!
