Checking for Understanding, Increasing Student Engagement, and So Much More! -- EdPuzzle Revisited (DCMS 11.3.15)

1. Take Attendance

Use this link or your STARRED DRIVE in Google Drive to access the attendance document

Explorers -- Piktochart, Part 3 (Bring your laptops, & we'll continue working on your projects!)
Spartans -- Skitch Follow Up (Bring your iPads and a digital image in an upcoming unit that would work well for a labeling/explaining assignment)
All Stars -- EdPuzzle work time (Bring your laptops)

 

2. Labeling/Explaining (Skitch) Challenge from 10.20.15

Our CHALLENGE from last time: How can YOU measure student learning in YOUR CLASSROOM using a tool like Skitch? Challenge yourself to include a labeling or explaining assessment or check for understanding between now and Nov. 3. Bring it back then and tell us how it went!

3. EdPuzzle Refresher (Laptops!)

I try to title each agenda blog post with the pedagogy or methodology that best reflects the area the tech supports, but that was especially difficult this time. EdPuzzle helps us do SO many things that I couldn't pick just one!

EdPuzzle (edpuzzle.com) allows teachers to pull in videos (or use videos already pulled into the site) and embed activities like questions and comments into them, making video lessons interactive and individualized. No more stopping for whole group discussion when you know that some got it and are ready to move on and others are lagging far behind and need to catch up. When you embed the discussion and CFU activities INTO the video, each student or pair of students can progress at the appropriate speed, rewatch as necessary, and demonstrate their INDIVIDUAL understanding of the content. Because of these advantages, EdPuzzle is a great tool to check for understanding, measure student learning, and increase student engagement. Someone once said that iPads (devices) "put every student on the front row," and EdPuzzle definitely illustrates that concept!

Our OBJECTIVE today is to become comfortable enough with EdPuzzle to have it as a resource in our classrooms to check for understanding and increase student engagement.We'll accomplish this by reviewing EdPuzzle's features as a group and then individually searching for content and exploring the editing features.

A. What can EdPuzzle help us do? 

Here's an edited video most of us are familiar with. Let's think about how these changes may make this video more effective in the classroom.

B. How do we do this in EdPuzzle? 

Here's a video tutorial you can use later for reference!

C. Look and play

4. Your Challenge

Do you plan on incorporating video as a teaching tool sometime between now and November 17? If you do, consider using EdPuzzle to deliver and individualize this content. Let me know if you need help, and bring your activity back to us on Nov. 17. We'd love to hear how it went -- the good, the bad, and the "Oh, wow. I didn't think of that" ('cause that always happens!).

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