Don't Just Show, Interact

Website Wednesday

Two wonderful tools that let teachers and students interact with classroom videos are...

 

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EdPuzzle and PlayPosit are two easy-to-use websites that allow teachers to add interactive content to videos. Adding questions, audio, and links can help keep students more engaged during the video viewing. Answers to questions give teachers necessary data to check if students were not only paying attention, but comprehended the material. 

Benefits of EdPuzzle: 

• Add interactive content: reminders, open-ended questions, multiple choice questions, links to more information and resources
• Add your own Audio Track and Audio Notes
• Trim video clips
• Find videos from sources such as YouTube, TED Talks, Kahn Academy, Vimeo, CrashCourse and many others. 
• Upload your own created videos. 
• Share to Google Classroom
• All of this for FREE!

Benefits of PlayPosit:

• Log-in using your Google or 0365 Account
• Search videos from sources such as YouTube, National Geographic, History Channel, Walt Disney, TedED, Kahn Academy, Flocabulary, and many others. 
• Upload your own created videos.
• Crop your video.
• Share to Google Classroom

To see EdPuzzle in action, join us for tomorrow's webinar: www.saisd.org/pdinyourpjs 

Discovery Education - A Video Library and So Much More

Our school district pays for a subscription to Discovery Education for all teachers. Discovery Education contains thousands of videos, images, audio files, articles and interactives that you can use with your students in class. 

Here are just a few things you can do with Discovery Education - 
1. Download videos and video clips to use in your lessons.
2. Download and use images.
3. Download and use audio files.
4. Access lesson plans, an interactive calendar and other professional development resources (Teacher Center).
5. Create and manage classes and assign videos and projects to your students.
6. Create writing prompts, assignments, quizzes and boards for your students.
7. Give access to students so they can get to all the content too.

If you are interested in using Discovery Education, you just need an account. Contact me at techtraining@saisd.org and I'll give you a campus code to get you started. If you want your students to have accounts, just let me know and we'll get them set up.