Creating Interactive Video Lessons with EdPuzzle

EdPuzzle is a tool that makes it a breeze for teachers to take a video and turn it into a whole interactive lesson. Video lessons are ideal for Flipped Classrooms, for the student that needs additional support, classroom learning stations, or an in class activity posted to your Google Classroom for students to complete when a teacher is absent.  

The process is simple. Teachers can create their video lessons either using their own video material or videos accessible within EdPuzzle from sites such as YouTube,TedEd, Khan Academy, National Geographic, and LearnZillion to name just a few. The easy to use cropping tools make it a snap to crop just the part you need.  These small clips can then be combined to make one continual video. 

Now is the fun part; adding the iinteractive features. Audio Notes, Audio Tracks, and Quizzes can be added to transform the simple task of watching a video into a much more engaging and powerful learning activity for the student (see EdPuzzle's Blog for a complete description of each interactive function).  When the lesson is finished teachers can assign the lesson directly to Google Classroom from within EdPuzzle.

The mechanics of EdPuzzle are super user friendly and very similar to Google Classroom in which Teachers create a class with a specific class code. Students join the class using the code to access the video lesson.  Students do not need an email address and can login with there Google accounts (or set up their own within seconds). Through these classrooms teachers can view student's responses to the questions and generate a progress report that can be downloaded as a PDF or printed.  

Check out some of the example video lessons below.  



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