EdPuzzle

Where have I been all this time ..? This is how I felt when I came across this wonderful piece of technology EDpuzzle.com. It was thanks to my savy-tech man who is very much into technology who introduced it to me and it was kind of love at first sight!

No need of  an awful lot of training to get familiar with it  - It didn't take too long before realizing what I could do with it:

• I can crop any youtube, ted talks, Khan Academy or National Geographic video
• I can insert my own audio notes or I can narrate over the video
• Finally, I can insert questions at any point in the video to create open questions, quizzes  multiple choice or short answer quizzes.
• I can create classes or import a classs including students directly from google classroom if I am already using it.

Once you have your video prepared - this is then saved in a data bank called "content"  for you to use whenever you need to do so.
From  there these videos can be used anytime including as a lecture video to be shown in the classroom. Students too can create their own video and share it with the rest of the class, especially if they are working on creative class project.

There are however some limitations. If EdPuzzle is going to be used as part of my google classroom I need to remember that I still need to share that video on EDPuzzle classes otherwise my students can not access to the video.
Also when the students have completed their activity I can only assess their completion from EdPuzzle not from google classroom. That means if accountability is what I am mainly concerned about then I think it is better to assign those videos to students directly from EdPuzzle class - This will enable teachers to keep track of how many students watched the video, what percentage of the video students watched, when they watched it, what questions in the video students managed to answer.

Here is my first example of a video created with EdPuzzle