Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Five Tools For Engaging Students with Video

When assigning students to view videos as part of a flipped or blended classroom assignment, there are three questions to think about:
  • Are the students paying attention?
  • How do you get students to focus on the important pieces of the video?
  • Did they get out of the video what you wanted them to?
While there are huge benefits to students watching videos to gain information, merely watching them is too passive an activity to ensure that learning is always taking place.  The question becomes how to make these learning opportunities become more active and engaging experience?  This post looks at five different web-based tools for making student video viewing more engaging by providing viewers with not only opportunities to answer questions about the content of the video, but to make video viewing a much more dynamic learning activity.

The slideshow below displays introductory videos and examples of EDpuzzlehapyak, Educanon, blubbr, and Zaption.

2 comments:

  1. Videos are really a great tool for classrooms. I use Khan Academy for Math videos. Its really good quality content.
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