EdPuzzle is a FREE online tool that allows your students to learn through video.
The magic with EdPuzzle is that you can make your own video and upload it for students or you can use one of the many videos that are provided in a library. Another great feature of EdPuzzle is that you can assign students a video to watch and see who has actually watched it. Taking that piece a little bit further, EdPuzzle allows you to pick a spot for the video to stop so that you can insert a question to determine if students are actually watching the video or not. If there is just a piece of a video that you want to use for students, there is a crop video feature.
From experience, my students enjoy using EdPuzzle. I've used it during independent time and during blended learning. I have found that it has helped some of my struggling students grasp ideas that I just wasn't able to connect with them on. Many of my students who are visual learn would ask for me to put a video on EdPuzzle in regards to the content that we were learning. As a teacher, I liked that my students were engaged in the material and that I was able to see if they were understanding through the questions I put into the videos. EdPuzzle gives a report on each video so that teachers have data to look back on. Another great thing is that it connects directly to Google Classroom, so students only have to log into that account.
I have never uploaded a video and have only used what is in the resource library. I have to say, while there are some great videos for certain content, some content was extremely difficult to find a video. Sometimes I would spend so much time looking for a video that was at the level of my students and still engaging, but I knew the outcome would be worth it.
Signing up is really easy, and did I mention FREE!
Below, I have provided step by step on how to get started and some of the features.
Once you get signed up, you create classes. I have shown the classes I have in my account.
To begin to find content to add; you can go to either of these places:
Once you find a video that you are interested in using, as stated before, there are features that you can use in the video.
The red scissors allow you to "cut" pieces of the video out and change the timing.
The microphone above the video allows you to insert an audio track.
The question mark on top of the video is where you want to go if you are interested in adding questions into the video or creating a quiz piece. There are options for short answer questions, multiple choice questions, and an essay.
Below is what the data piece looks like from the teacher's dashboard:
Here is an example video that could be used with questions included in it!
This looks super cool! As a fellow math teacher, I think it is so beneficial for students to watch videos of content to help reinforce learning, and I am like that I can record myself and upload if I wanted to. Thanks for sharing! :)
ReplyDeleteI LOVE EdPuzzle! It is the one tool that I use consistently and I like that is can be individual or class based. I also had a student who could not come to school for a while and he was able to complete assignments online.
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