Use EDpuzzle's tools to enhance your flipped video content, as well as your in-class lessons and lectures. Teachers who choose the highest-quality videos (or create their own) and add voice-overs, interactive quizzes, and audio notes can create a much more interactive experience for their students and one that encourages students to not just be active viewers but reactive viewers who critique what they watch. If you're using others' content as a starting point, EDpuzzle’s search will suggest high-quality videos from sites such as YouTube, Khan Academy, TED Talks, and Vimeo. However, be aware that editing the video won't alter it in any way. Remember to preview all video content for appropriateness.
To take learning a step further, have students use the platform. In the hands of students, the videos can be annotated and reconceptualized in ways that move students from passive consumers into critical remixers of online learning content. It could even give students the opportunity to improve on what's already out there in the vast sea of online learning videos.
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Take Classroom Video to the Next Level
Cheat Sheet: Getting the Most out of VideoEDpuzzle is a web-based interactive video and formative assessment tool that gives teachers a set of tools to crop an existing online video to the moments needed for a specific teaching purpose. Teachers can also customize the cropped video with voice-overs, audio comments, and embedded assessment questions. Teachers can prohibit students from fast-forwarding through videos and assign each video a due date. Data from the embedded quizzes is saved in EDpuzzle’s dashboard; however, it can easily be exported as a CSV file and incorporated into other grade- and course-management systems.
Additionally, EDpuzzle offers a space for a community of teachers to share their creations for inspiration or for easy classroom use. Finally, teachers can turn this robust set of tools over to students, enabling them to find high-quality video instruction and customize it in a way that demonstrates their learning. It's also available as a Chrome app or extension.
EDpuzzle allows both teachers and students to customize online videos in ways that encourage more active video-learning. The quality of the learning will depend, of course, on the original video as well as how it's customized or remixed for classroom use. In general, watching online video may only require lower-level thinking and learning skills. However, the ability to isolate the most important aspects of a video, along with the capability for embedded assessment, makes this type of learning more powerful and relevant. In comparison to other similar tools, the ability to add voice-overs can enhance students' engagement and learning. Teachers can further explain what's on the screen and contextualize what students see in a way that's relevant to their course. While it'll meet many needs, EDpuzzle could use a little more flexibility and more features to annotate and remix videos, especially the ability to combine multiple videos.
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