EdTech Feature: EdPuzzle

My colleague recently started a “Tech Tip” initiative - a great opportunity for our teachers to share ideas with one another. With each teacher’s permission, I wanted to share these ideas with a larger audience - and please consider sharing your related tips, ideas, sample lessons, etc. in the comments. We all get better when we relentlessly share ideas.

Today we feature EdPuzzle, which allows teachers to create/curate video content, crop it, add a voiceover or audio note to the selected video, and/or add questions for students to respond to while watching the video.

Here is one helpful tutorial on how to start using EdPuzzle.

Some interesting uses for this tool:

• Customize your “flipped” lessons in your desired learning management system (LMS) such as Google Classroom. Assign an EdPuzzle for homework, have more students coming to class the next day having reviewed material in an engaging way and having answered a few questions already.

• Customize your short-cycle formative assessment and gather immediate feedback. This tool can be used at any point before (introduction/hook), during, or after (exit ticket) a lesson.

21st century learning isn’t about simply exchanging paper and pencil tools for digital ones. With tools like EdPuzzle you are actively creating new material (see the so-called SAMR Model for reference). In this case it’s a combination of existing video resources, your direct instruction, and formative checkpoints that you can customize for classes, small groups, or even individual students.

Are you using EdPuzzle? What’s your favorite EdPuzzle creation?