Goodbye Edcanvas; Hello Blendspace!

I had heard about Edcanvas and thought it would be appropriate for my instructional design assignment but to my surprise, Edcanvas is no more.  Clicking on an old Edcanvas link yielded Blendspace!  Blendspace is visual learning online tool where teachers use a grid-like canvas (like Pinterest) to curate or bundle interactive lessons for their students or colleagues.  In fact, it boasts that it is the easiest way to blend your class and digital content and declares that from its site, you can create lessons in five minutes! And you know what, from my experience that's true.

Blendspace is unbelievably easy to use. Its drag-and-drop feature allows users to seamlessly incorporate digital content like MS PowerPoint slides, Youtube videos, photos, images or websites as well as your own media productions, into a lesson. With its user accounts continuing to grow (well over 150,000 users by the end of 2013), Blendspace is an excellent option for the delivery of lessons online.