Add Quizzes to YouTube through Edpuzzle.com

Here’s a nice educational technology tool that everyone can use, it’s called Edpuzzle (edpuzzle.com). It allows you to take a YouTube video (or any online video) and do the following:

•  Edit the video for length
•  Insert your own audio clips at various points to draw attention to/emphasize parts of the video
•  Insert short quizzes at different points of the video

There are two ways to share the video with students:

1.   1  The sorta complicated way:

a.       You create a class on the edpuzzle website-the kids log in and watch the video/take the quiz and then you will have data that indicates:

                                                               i.      Who took watched the video/took the quizzes

                                                             ii.      How long it took them to watch the video/take the quizzes

                                                            iii.      Which answers they got correct and incorrectt

1. 2. The uncomplicated way:

a.       Share a link through email/on your website/or have a sub play it in class (this method does not gather stats however)

Here’s the uncomplicated way and an example of the finished product (check it out, it’s a little over a  minute long): 

https://edpuzzle.com/media/573c8d8ef22608ae27d75083

You could set it up as an enrichment activity, review activity or a nice supplement to  sub plans.

Understanding MLA and Common Core

How to Create a Symbaloo Account

How to Create a Symbaloo Account

What is Symbaloo?

Symbaloo is an online bookmarking tool that is visually appealing in an easily managed way.  An excellent resource for webquests, as an add-on to your teacher website, or an easy way to share online resources.

This document is broken into the following sections:

1. How do you open an account?
2. How do you create a webmix?
3. How do you create a tile
4. How do you share a webmix
5. How do you create a background or wallpaper?
6. How do you create a symbaloo homepage?
7. How do you search for other webmixes?
8. How do you import a tile from another webmix?

Here is an excellent video that explains most of the above sections:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kbp2CSS7cnk

• How do you open an account?
• Go to www.symbaloo.com
• Click on “Create an Account Now”
• 
• You can create an account using:
• Facebook
• Google plus account
• Registering your email

• 

• Creating a webmix

• A webmix is the page you see on symbaloo that contains all of your tiles (bookmarks)
• To get started, click on the plus sign at the top of the page:

• You will get a choice of either:
• Creating your own webmix
• Searching for a webmix

• Let’s start by creating your own

• Name your webmix
• 

• Here’s what your screen should look like:

• Add a tile

• Click on one of the tiles and you will see the following:

• 

• “Create” a tile allows you to create your own bookmark
• “Search” a tile lets you find a tile that is already created (like netflix, pandora, cnn, etc)

• Let’s Create a tile for “Q” (CNUSD's online attendance tool)

• 

• type in the address for “Q”:  https://mysis.cnusd.k12.ca.us/Q/default.htm
• You can add a name for the tile
• Change the color
• Choose an icon or upload an image

• Here’s what I put together
• 

• If you click save you will see this:

• You can click and drag the tile anywhere on the page if you want to place it somewhere else
• If you right click on the tile, you will see this:

• 

• You can edit, copy/move the tile or delete it.

Sharing a webmix

• Click on the sharing icon at the top:
• 

• At this point you will see this screen:
• 
• You can make the symbaloo available publicly or privately

• Once you click on “Share My Webmix” you will get this screen:

• You can:
• Share it via email
• Write the website address on the board
• Embed it on your website
• Send it out via REMIND

Create a background/Wallpaper

Go to options

Select “Change Wallpaper”

Click on the wallpaper you would like to use

Set as your homepage:

• Click on the “envelope” icon at the top of the page
• 

• You will see this screen
• 

• When you click on “Set Symbaloo as your homepage!” you will see this:
• 
• Follow the instructions above

Searching for other webmixes:

This is pretty cool, you can search for other webmixes that people have produced.  Here’s how you do it.

• At the top right of the page, do a search for webmixes
• (In my example, I looked for ESL webmixes)

If I click on the second one, I will see the following:

You can see that 346 users connect to this webmix and it is rated five stars.  I can choose to add it to my symbaloo account by going to the bottom of the page and clicking on “add this webmix”

This will take you back to your home page, the webmixes that you have selected will appear across the top of the page:

• At this point, you can use the entire webmix as a source or you can select certain tiles to add to your own webmix
• Right click on the tile

• Go to Copy/Move and you will see this screen:

• A few things about this screen:
• You can click on the arrow next to “Home” and select a webmix to receive the tile
• Either copy or move the tile
• Click on “Move tile”

Padlet: A Simple Way To Have Everyone Participate

Padlet is an online “bulletin board” that allows students to post their response to a topic in a manner that allows the whole class to participate.

Here's an overview:

  What is Padlet?

• An online bulletin board that allows everyone to post to it

How is it helpful?

• It allows all of your students to view the responses of their classmates

• It consolidates all of the responses to one place (easier grading)
• It allows for more creativity in the classroom

How can I use Padlet in the classroom?

• Group responses in the classroom
• As an “into” activity
• Elicit responses to primary text
• Use as homework
• Use as a “Bell-Ringer”
• Use as a “Ticket-out-the-door” activity

How does it work?

• Go to padlet.com and click on :

Put in your:

• Email address
• Password
• Click "sign up"

• Put in your name
• Click on "Save and continue"

You will see a homepage

• Click on "Create a New Padlet"

Create your online bulletin board

• Click on the red triangle
• Click on "Modify Wall"

You can:

• Click on "portrait" to personalize your page
• Title you Padlet (Perhaps the name of your class?)
• Describe your Padlet (Put your discussion question here)

You can also:

• Select your background (wallpaper)
• Click on "layout" and determine how your posts will appear

Your Padlet should look similar to this:

This is the address

Now the fun part, share the address with your students

• In this case, the address is :  padlet.com/nate_theune/ny3lsbaq5ceq

Easy input from the class!

• When the students go to the address, they double click on the wall and this appears:

• They enter their name and write a response
• Notice that they can also add a link, picture or video to the website.

Some examples and possible projects:

• Create a timeline:

• Create a map with descriptions:

• More ideas: