Week 10 - Exploring Sutori and Wrapping Up the Week

 This week I opened up Sutori, one of our tools this week and an extraordinary one at that for educators and students. This site is a lot of fun and a real creativity booster. I was interested in Sutori as a possible site to do my produsage project, so I started clicking around in it to see what was there and how it worked. Almost immediately my wheels started spinning and ideas started emerging in my head. 

Sutori is a tool for creating lessons and presenting information in a remote classroom. It's intended for elementary through higher ed, even including adult education and training. A teacher can create just about any lesson for any subject using the resources and materials on the site. 


Here is a lesson on Understanding by Design, an instructional design course

 

 

A lesson on writing the Declaration of Independence with built-in activity and feedback

 

Overall Sutori is a great tool for student and teacher presentations as well as for project based learning. There are templates for lesson plans, learning objectives and activities to use, or you can create your own. There are tools for assessment and providing feedback and it works well with Google products and Microsoft Teams. There are built-in tools for collaboration and communication, and for critical and creative thinking. I'll definitely be using this tool for my produsage project and will keep it in my back pocket for future projects.

Having a look at Sutori and playing around with the tools got me really excited for teaching. As a kid, one of my fantasies was being a teacher. I'd sit in front of our old computer and create lesson plans and tests, use what was available on Windows 97 to create digital resources, and spend hours exploring the Encarta encyclopedia CD-ROM my parents bought me and my sister. Now that I'm kind of fulling my childhood ambition in a different way (that I never thought existed), I'm happy to see my creativity spark up again when I use tools like Sutori. Now there's a tool that allows for blended or complete remote learning and it's appealing to me as a teacher and a student. Thinking about it from both perspectives might give me a better insight for using this tool more effectively for collaborative authorship. I highly recommend checking out Sutori!

This upcoming week is going to be a busy one as I dig in to my produsage project. It's a good thing I saved my drop weeks and tokens for participation logs and blog posts! I'll certainly be cashing those in these last few weeks. The lighter load will be more helpful for creating a really great project that I can be satisfied with, followed by working on the PLN assignment. It feels strange to wrap up the blog completely this week, so I'll come back and write a good course wrap up post (I'm such a sucker for goodbyes). Keep it up everyone, looking forward to awesome projects!

Until then, 😎

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  1. Erica LyndJuly 18, 2021 at 7:16 PM

    Thank you for sharing about Sutori. I hadn't ever heard of it and this might be the missing tool I've been looking for for my job and planning out trainings, outlining and storyboarding some content.

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  2. Bobbi PJuly 20, 2021 at 11:54 AM

    I loved Sutori as well, and asked my school to purchase an annual membership for me to get access to the quizzes and other features. I loved this post explaining why you loved it, too.

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