Edpuzzle!

     Hello! My post today will be about Edpuzzle, another interesting online teaching and learning tool! Basically Edpuzzle is an platform which you can, as a teacher, turn normal videos from Youtube etc. into interactive ones with adding voice-overs, extra information boxes, assessment questions into the video, for students to engage with the video and answer. It is also an platform where you can practice Flipped teaching, as you can share the most of the content via the videos and the embedded questions. With that, students will be able to self-study and prepare on their own first for the upcoming lesson, ask the their questions if they are confused about the topic and there will be much more time for the activities to do in the actual lesson.

    You can whether sign up with a student or a teacher account. After signing up with a teacher account you can create your first class then you begin to search for a video to create your own lesson. (Edpuzzle can also show you the video lesson examples that the other teachers have made, if you’d like you can check their content out for more ideas.) After finding a suitable video on Edpuzzle that are presented to you by Youtube and other video platforms, choose and start editing on it! Edpuzzle allows you to cut and trim the video, so you can leave out the unnecessary parts. Then add the voice-overs, additional texts, voice notes to the video. To make it even more interactive and evaluative, during the video you can add open ended, close ended and multiple choiced questions at the related time stamp, so the video will be paused and the students can answer the questions. Besides, students are unable to skip the video so they will need to watch the video to understand and complete the questions. When you are done preparing you can assign the video to your students. So, Edpuzzle is an another technological way to track your students’ learning process, their focus on the lesson, keep notes on their correct or wrong answers.

    I’ve put a link of a helpful tutorial video for you, if you’d like to see what is Edpuzzle and how to use it: https://youtu.be/pS2zv-iNiSc

Thanks for reading. See you!