edpuzzle – Jake Miller

EDPUZZLE Adds an Upload Option to Student Projects

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While at ISTE, I also visited the Edpuzzle booth and learned that Edpuzzle has added the option for students to upload videos to their own projects. As a teacher, I’ve always been able to create a project for my students to watch and answer questions on. I could add videos from YouTube, which is what I do a lot of, I could also easily add them from Screencastify or from right in Edpuzzle, and I could also easily upload videos from my computer and add in questions.

Next, they added the ability for the teacher to assign a project to students where they make their own Edpuzzle creations. In the past, students were only able to use YouTube videos. Now students can add uploaded videos too. For instance, maybe they made a video in Flip, downloaded it from Flip, and then uploaded their video into Edpuzzle.

In the “add content” area of Edpuzzle, we are used to seeing “discover video content, upload a video, or record a video”. Next in line is “student project”, which may not have been used by too many teachers, but is an area where you can assign students to do their own Edpuzzle creation.

When I go into that section, it all looks familiar. Give the project a subject, a goal, and instructions. However, now I’ve got two options for video sources. The first is to find a video, which was always there, but the second option is, “Upload a Video”.

One application I can see that would be really nice in a videography class or cinematography class where kids are making videos for projects. They could upload their video and then add questions to see what their classmates or teacher think of certain parts of the video they’re creating.

Give these new Edpuzzle applications a try, and let me know what you think!

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Language Settings in Edpuzzle

A quick Edpuzzle update for you today- you can now change the language that you see their options, buttons, and all of the interface in!

Just click your picture and then name in the top right, and then go to settings. You’ll only see 4 options (English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Indonesian) for now, but hopefully there are more to come.

And, good news, your students can follow this same process to change the interface language for them as well!

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Screen Recording in Edpuzzle

Did you know that if you’re trying to prepare an Edpuzzle activity with your own video, you can actually record in Edpuzzle? It’s true!

They have a Chrome extension that records and pops the video right into Edpuzzle. You can record in-camera only, desktop, or tab mode, with your webcam in the corner. Unless, of course, you don’t want your webcam on during your screencast – in that case, you can turn it off, too!

You can then trim or cut parts of the video, select its thumbnail, and decide if you’d like it to be public or not. Once you’re done editing, you can add questions, notes, and voiceovers just like you’ve always done in Edpuzzle!

That same extension, by the way, adds a button in YouTube for sending videos straight to Edpuzzle. That’s a nice little added convenience!

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Assessment + Feedback in EdPuzzle

When I started using Edpuzzle years ago it was, I’ll shamefully admit, to make sure my students were complying with my directions to watch a video. But I soon discovered that the questions that you can embed in those videos are really good for formative assessment and providing feedback (or feedforward as I often call it).

There are 4 different ways that you can assess your students and/or give them feedback in Edpuzzle:

Multiple-choice questions are auto-graded.
You can mark questions correct (✔️) or incorrect (✖️).
You can assign a percentage score to a response (i.e., 50% for half-correct).
You can provide typed feedback.

My secret weapon, though, is this little efficiency hack. As you’ll see in the EduGIF below, marking questions as correct using the ✔️ can be kind of time-consuming. Instead, I skip over any correct answers and, once I’ve looked at them all, I click the “Mark Ungraded as Correct” button. And voila, Edpuzzle takes it from there!

It does take a handful of seconds, or even a few minutes, to go magically mark them as correct, but I can use that time to get a sip of coffee or eat a few peanut butter M&Ms.

Check out this process in the EduGIF below:

16+ Formative Assessment Tools for #RemoteLearning!

Wow. March 2020 has been quite a month. And buckle up, folks, because it looks like April is going to be more of the same.

For many educators, that means screencasts of lessons, assignments in learning management systems, and lots of time on Zoom or Google Meet.

But what about Formative Assessment? If we’re going to teach new content during these extended school closures caused by the coronavirus and COVID-19 (I’m not sure if we should, but that’s another post) then we need to know if students are comprehending that new content!

So, I put that question out to the Duct Tapers (listeners to my podcast, the Educational Duct Tape Podcast). I got a handful of answers, which I featured in Episode 39b of the podcast.

A week later, I reached out for even more ideas! On Wednesday 3.25.2020, I hosted a #EduDuctTape Twitter chat focused on this and 2 other #RemoteLearning concepts. So, based on the thoughts shared in the episode and the ideas shared in the Twitter chat, I’ve got a BUNCH to share with you! So let’s dig into it! Continue reading 16+ Formative Assessment Tools for #RemoteLearning!

#EduDuctTape Mini Episode 003!

In the 3rd mini episode, I sit down to talk to . . . ugh . . . disaster. A minor technology disaster strikes the Educational Duct Tape podcast studios and I take to the microphone to vent about it and reflect on it.

#EduDuctTape Episode 33!

In the 10th episode of Season 2, I talk with Dr. Sheldon Eakins of the Leading Equity Center & Leading Equity Podcast. Together, Sheldon and I discuss techquity, bringing culture, community and disruptive discourse into the classroom. Tech tools covered include Skype-a-Scientist, Flipgrid, Synth, Voicethread, BackChannelChat.com, Yo! Teach, Google Classroom, Padlet, Schoology, and Parlay.

#EduDuctTape Episode 32!

In the 9th episode of Season 2, I talk with Sethi De Clercq of eduflip.net about effectively sharing new technology information with teachers, using video in the classroom and tools for students to create video with. We talk about EdPuzzle, screencasting tools (Nimbus & Loom), Flipgrid, Explain Everything, Backchannel Chats and more!

#EduDuctTape Episode 31!

In the 8th episode of Season 2, I talk with Jornea Armant of Flipgrid about video creation tools and connecting students with the entire learning community. We discuss Flipgrid, WeVideo, Seesaw, Adobe Spark, screencasting tools and more. Also, in my Soapbox Moment, what we do when a tech tool goes away.