Great Tool for your Flipped Classroom

Today, I was finally able to use EDpuzzle with my students and the result was …………

OUTSTANDING!

Below are some comments I received from my students..

• “I like this much better than doing a quiz after watching the video!”
• “I can rewatch the parts I don’t understand so I can get the question right!”
• “The questions just pop up!”

During the first week of school, I took my students to the computer lab to set up their accounts that they would need for my class. Which meant that no sign ups or account creation were needed to get started today.

Since this was the first time I used EDpuzzle in my class, I allowed the students time in class to complete the video and accompanying questions, simply to ensure that they could navigate the website, view the video, and answer the questions easily. And, they did extremely well!

In addition to completing embedded questions through EDpuzzle, my students were also required to take notes on the video on a Google Doc, which they then submitted to Classroom. (If you’d like to see the Google Doc, please click here.)

Since I use many different tools/websites in my class, I was a bit hesitant to use EDpuzzle…not because I was unsure of the benefits of the tool, but because I was concerned about my students navigating multiple websites to complete an assignment.

Google Classroom to the rescue!

I was able to include the EDpuzzle video activity link on the Google Doc which I distributed to my students through Google Classroom. Potential confusion, averted!

I hope your year is off to a great start, and that you give EDpuzzle a whirl in your classroom!

Thanks for reading 🙂

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