EDPUZZLE

What's Edpuzzle ? Quick Guide to Learn How to Use It in Instructional Technologies?

- It allows us to advance in content at times other than the class space, to take advantage of this time to advance in classroom projects and create significant learning experiences with our students. In this blog post, I want to tell you how you can learn to use Edpuzzle and everything you need to know if you are a beginner in this tool so that you can advance in a safe and practical way in choosing your content to work in the classroom. It is a free web tool or application that allows you to incorporate videos to make them interactive through questions immersed in it, which can be open or closed; also, notes can be inserted in textual or auditory format, which can be used to motivate, give clarifications, instructions, invite reflection or in any other pedagogical way.

Steps to Get Started in Edpuzzle

1. Register and create a class: If you do not have an Edpuzzle account, it is essential that you create one and manage all the resources for your class from it. You can create an account using your Google account and thus be able to synchronize the classes that you have created in Google Classroom to import or bring to all students to Edpuzzle.

2. The next step is to do a "content curation", which is basically to select those videos that you want your students to see for a specific purpose or competence of your subject, in this you are the expert, since you will know which video will be better for you and your class. You can also make your own videos, but it is not mandatory, since you know that on the Internet, for example, on YouTube, there are tons of videos that you can apply to your classroom. Once you have selected the video, the next step is to edit it: you can trim it to make it shorter, you can also insert Edpuzzle questions or interactions. Although it is also worth bearing in mind that there are already many ready-to-use resources in the Edpuzzle community.

3. Assign video lessons to students: Once you have your video lesson selected, edited and completely ready, the next step is to assign it to the class. .It is important that you know all the settings that you can apply in Edpuzzle so that you get the most out of it, such as: Assignment date, deadline, activate subtitles, prevent students from advancing the video, among others.

4. Evaluate and review student responses: Now the final part of the process, the evaluation and feedback in Edpuzzle. Here basically what you will learn is to review the answers of your students and identify the result, know how it went, if they learned, if they were right or if it is necessary to strengthen some aspect in the process. Also, it is essential that you know that if you have included open questions in your video lesson, you must review and evaluate it manually, since Edpuzzle cannot do it for you, it only does it when the questions are closed.