Since I teach High School with a LMS delivery system ( Canvas ), I’ve been using Lucid to solve a problem that has plagued me for years. How does one create a “digital” activity for Lab Based Experimentation that often requires multi-media formats?
Since my new friend Lucidspark came on the scene, I’ve been able to create one stop shopping boards to meet the unique needs of a Scientific Lab Report. Lucid allows me to include video content, background text, instructions, links to other documents / web pages, as well as include tables, charts, illustrations and spreadsheets. All of this in one single format for teaching and grading within the Canvas LMS System grade book. There’s no need to toggle back and forth between different document types ( text vs. spreadsheets etc. ) and have multiple file uploads.
The Frames and Pathway features allow me to instruct students; moving from item to item ( Introductory Information, instructions, Data tables, Graphs, resource materials, Q & A boxes, etc. ) like we would in a traditional paper formatted Lab experiment.
I’ve even been able to create Lucidspark Labs with manipulatives. For example. I have climatographs that allow my students to move the data points on connected lines and bars on a graph to represent the water and temperature data for biomes. I also have a Lucidspark Lab where students move around chromosomes onto a blank Karyotype form and then analyze the form for Genetic Conditions / Anomalies. Needless to say, my creativity has been unleashed. I can finally do activities in a digital format that prior to Lucid, could only be done in a Pencil Paper format.
I do wish we had a place to upload and share our Lucidspark creations so others could benefit from these boards - and not have to take the time to re-create them from scratch.
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