EdPuzzle--Not Just for YouTube

So, during one of the exciting twitter chats either #fledchat or maybe it was #2PencilChat, I learned about an educational website called EdPuzzle. This allows a teacher to assign a YouTube video with some questions embedded.  With the help of Google Classroom, the teacher can post to their Google Classrooms and have the students complete the assignment.

At first I just shrugged it off, since it included YouTube. In our district, although teachers have access to YouTube, and can show to whole group, student accounts have YouTube blocked. Since I am in an elementary school, I can understand it being blocked for students. Guess what? It's not limited to YouTube.

Taking a chance, I reached out to EdPuzzle via twitter and asked some questions. I was hoping that we could upload our video to YouTube, create the questions with EdPuzzle, then download the new project to a Google Drive or something. I know, I know---it's sort of like trying to reach your belly button by going around behind your knee caps. Within the first day, I received a response. It's actually very easy to do, and one DOESN'T have to go through all of the song and dance that I eluded to. Maybe we COULD use it after all!

Test driving it, I was excited to see that it was super easy to use. With a click your google classroom was imported, and ready to go! The first video, the EdPuzzle walks you through the set up, and then you're ready to go! With the FREE version you get all KINDS of neat things to do, and the paid version gives you icing on top of that delicious cake they're already willing to serve you. The more teachers sign up within a school, the less expensive it is.

Interested in EdPuzzle yet? Take a look at the seminar that shows how to integrate this into Google Classroom and see if you're interested...