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Edpuzzle: Turn any video into a Flipped Lesson!
What is EDpuzzle?
EDpuzzle is a free, innovative site that lets you take just about any video, edit it down to the portions you want, add audio notes and questions for students, and create virtual classrooms where you can monitor individual student work.
If you use videos in the classroom, EDpuzzle is a must have!
Take any video from YouTube, Khan Academy, Learn Zillion, etc. Make it perfect for your classroom and more engaging for your students.
Make any video a true lesson by making it to the point, personal and effective and gather data about your students so you know if they truly understand the lesson.
Advantages of Flipping Lessons with EDpuzzle
1. You arrive to class knowing who understands the topic and who needs extra help.
2. You spend less time speaking from the front and more time on individual assistance.
3. Students that miss classes have the capacity to catch up more easily.
4. It makes viewing clips fully interactive rather than passive.
5. The data collected by EDpuzzle offers student reports on participation and effort.
Ideas for use in the classroom
Elementary Teachers
- Guided reading center.
- Check for comprehension. Embed questions to check for understanding. Students can independently go through the guided reading activity, while you work one-on-one with other reading groups. Rotate the reading groups throughout the week so that each student gets the opportunity to go through the EDpuzzle guided reading activity, and each group gets one-on-one time with you.
- Science center (with a video pertaining to an experiment or new learning),
- During math centers students can rotate between centers allowing teacher time with each group.
Secondary Teachers
- Check for understanding.
- Take it a step further and have your students create an edpuzzle, including questions to demonstrate understanding.
- Ideal for sub days. It's hard being away from the classroom because it can essentially be a lost day. Even if the substitute did EXACTLY what you ask, you miss the opportunity to see your students work and think. Now with Edpuzzle you can still monitor students even when away from the classroom.
- Gives you the ability to “teach” remotely and embed the same questions and promptings you would give if you were "live" in the classroom. While you won’t get to hear all of the discussion, you will have some feedback to better understand how your students were thinking.
4 Simple Steps!
Step 1
- Enroll, invite, or import students from Google Classroom
- Assign it to your class/classes and let your students watch the video and answer the questions.
Step 2
- Crop the video and use only what you need for your lesson.
- Create a voice over if you prefer to explain a video or if you want to translate a video.
- Create an audio note to add clarifications, a warm introduction, you name it.
- Add questions along the video and check if your students truly understand the lesson.
Step 3
Step 4
- Get meaningful data and insights about your students while they watch the video lesson or after they have completed it as homework.
- See at a glance how they are answering the questions and where in the video they are struggling to understand the concepts.
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