As more and more educators adapt to distance learning, Bloom’s Literature can help. Bloom’s Literature is rich with well-organized, curated content on core authors and works…and more. It is easy to access, can be used for individual research or assignment help on-site or off, and has a variety of assets and features that make it a great source for virtual instruction/distance learning:
- Fully accessible anytime, anywhere, 24/7—no special software or hardware is needed (browser-based)
- Share to Google Classroom and save to Google Drive—students can complete and share assignments from home
- Share content via your LMS or email—use embed codes or record URLs/permalinks to share content. If you use Schoology or Canvas, you may be able to embed content directly from within those LMSs
Check out the Sharing Quick Tips PDF to see how to share content. Subscribers can also go to the Searchable Support Center for specifics on how to use any of these features and more.
Quick Tips: Ways to Use Bloom’s Literature for Remote Learning
Here are some ways subscribers can use Bloom’s for online instruction or assignments. Also, check out the Educator Guide PDF, which is full of useful tips on how to use Bloom’s, including ideas for distance learning (see the last page in the PDF):
- Assign the Essay Topics—You and your students can select from 10,000+ topics. Have them submit essays as assignments, for asynchronous environments, or use them as discussion questions for synchronous, real-time learning
- Have students catch up on reading assignments with 1,000+ full-text literary classics eBooks, including regularly studied works such as Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre
- Watch videos of classic performances—The 750+ full-length videos of great literary works—including Hamlet (starring David Tennant) and Death of a Salesman (starring Lee J. Cobb)—are conveniently broken down into segments so you can assign either a key scene or the whole video
- Get students started writing their papers—“Preparing to Write” and “How to Write a Good Essay” sections offer sound, general advice, while the “How to Write about Literature” section features specific, student-friendly guidance on how to write good essays on the most assigned authors and works
- Assign a poem—The 2,600+ full-text, searchable poems have corresponding analytical entries, allowing students and researchers to enhance their understanding by reading a poem alongside criticism of it
- Use the Shakespeare Center for the full text of every play, performance videos, essay topics, critical analysis, and every-thing else students need to study Shakespeare from home
- Have students use interviews to write a biography—Select from more than 4,500 of Publishers Weekly’s author interviews and profiles or 250+ podcasts. Students can use these alongside the reference content in Bloom’s to put together papers or biographies on favorite or assigned authors.
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