EDpuzzle is a way to make watching a informational video more interactive for your students. There are many ways you can use this site. You can use it in class as by watching it as a whole class and add in quiz questions to check for comprehension as well as clipping out parts that may be redundant or just to shorten it to the key concepts. You may also assign it as a homework assignment as each student will be joined on your online class so you can check/grade their progress as well as assign due dates. You have access to an unlimited amount of video all over the web as well as being able to insert your own. You can then crop a video, add your voice to it and embed quizzes. This allows you to make sure that your students are not just watching a video but that they are being challenged by it and that they are getting every piece of quintessential information while also holding them accountable for their own learning. In my class I used this as a homework assignment for my AP students to get some extra information on Joseph Stalin that we did not have time for in class. Since the video counted as a homework grade and since there was a way to hold them accountable, more students watched the video then if I would have just assigned it to them like normal. They also gave feedback about how they liked that they knew what I wanted them to get out of the video based on the questions I had embedded. Overall this is a quick and easy to use tool that turns watching and analyzing a video into a 21st century skill.
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Mrs. GallowayI am a first year teacher at Carson High School. I am teaching World History and AP World History. I am also co-coaching the women's tennis team. Archives
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