Engage Agenda
6-12 Video Based Instruction Using Pre-existing Videos
Course Description:
Teachers will learn ways to use Edpuzzle with educational videos found online (YouTube, Khan Academy, etc.) and add elements to make them engaging and interactive for students. Participants will explore tools that allow them to add annotation to videos before sharing them with students or to embed questions to capture students’ responses.
The session will focus on adding questions, voice annotation, and text annotation that connect content standards to videos in order to highlight key points and/or assess student understanding. Teachers will also look at various ways to use Edpuzzle as an assessment tool in their classroom.
Clear Targets:
Participants will…
learn the search guidelines to use to find the best possible videos for classroom instruction.
know how to add interactive elements to online videos for students using digital tools.
assign lessons to students and review their work.
assign Edpuzzle projects to students and review their work.
leave with at least 1 lesson to use in the coming 9 weeks.
What Does EdPuzzle Look Like For Students?
Take the opportunity to complete a lesson from a student perspective so see what EdPuzzle has to offer. Join this practice classroom and complete the assigned video.
Click this link: https://edpuzzle.com/open/almidmo
Click the blue "Join open class" button
Click the title "CMCSS Digital Blended Learning"
Click the play button in the middle of the picture
What Does EdPuzzle Look Like For A Teacher?
Look at example data and how reports for this program are set up.
EdPuzzle offers a snapshot of your overall class.
Click on the three dots under a particular assignment to see that student's work.
The left most grade column is the average grade for that student for the edpuzzles that contain questions.
EdPuzzle makes grading individual work simple because you can easily move from student to student using the tabs at the top of the page.
Teachers can see the overall grade for a particular edpuzzle assignment, the percent of the video watched by the student, the number of correct responses to multiple choice questions, the time spent on the edpuzzle and whether or not it was turned in.
Teachers can see the number of times a student watched each section of the video.
Individual open-ended questions can be graded to any point value out of 100.
How To Sign Up For EdPuzzle?
Go to the following link, click "Get started" or "Sign in", click "I'm a Teacher" and sign in using your school Google account.
Finding Videos In EdPuzzle
EdPuzzle offers a variety of searches for video content. Teachers can search in already created videos or make their own from scratch by importing from a linked site.
Tips:
Begin by searching within EdPuzzle. Teachers can use and edit already created assignments from other teachers.
There are several academic video sites linked to EdPuzzle.
Examples include Khan Academy and Crash Course
Teachers can also search YouTube for videos to pull into EdPuzzle and edit.
Editing Tools Within EdPuzzle
There are four editing tools for teachers to use within EdPuzzle
Cut - this allows the teacher to edit the video down to just the content you need. You can shorten a video from the beginning or the end.
Voiceover - this allows the teacher to record your own words to an existing video
Questions - this allows the teacher to add a variety of interactive features that are noted below. The video will pause after each question until the student has answered and clicks "Continue".
Multiple-choice question (these can have one correct answer or multiple correct answers and are self-grading)
Open-ended question (these require the student to type in an answer and must be graded by the teacher)
Note (this can be a typed note or an audio note. The video will pause to play the audio note for students).
Signing Your Students Into EdPuzzle
Students can join a class by signing up for EdPuzzle with their Google Account and entering a class code. (At right)
They can also join through a direct link that can be embedded in google classroom. Use the copy link button shown at right.
The teacher can connect roster from Google Classroom to Edpuzzle. (Below)
Sharing Assignments With Students
Once a video is created it can be assigned to a class/students by clicking on the appropriate video in the "My Content" window, and selecting "Assign".
The video can be assigned to only specific students in a class, to an entire single class or to multiple classes.
Teachers can also prevent skipping within the video and turn on closed captioning if it is available for that video.
A due date can be assigned.
Once created, teachers can choose to share a direct link or post the assignment in your Google Classroom.
EdPuzzle Projects
EdPuzzle Projects allow teachers to turn the tables on students and ask them to create a video demonstrating their knowledge of class standards.
To create a project for students go to "My Content" and select "Add Content".
Under "Add Content" select "Students Project" and create the parameters for the assignment.
When grading these projects teachers will be able to rate the video by using stars and leave comments for the students to review.
To easily grade these projects, consider creating a project rubric before assigning so the students will know how they are being assessed.
