Edpuzzle has been a tool I have used often since I discovered it a few years ago in one of the Facebook groups I belong to. My students love it and I love how my students get input and interact with it seamlessly. Edpuzzle has worked well as a way to expose my students to other Spanish-speakers, to input that I can incorporate to the video through the questions I ask, and to the many possibilities Youtube or other videos offer.

I have been using the free version and have been leaving some that I am planning to reuse in the future: ones that I modified, and ones that I created myself (old Edpuzzles here). During remote learning, I created a few more and I decided to incorporate a different format in some that I hope you would like to use in your classes.

My version of “Piedra, Papel o Tijeras”

My fourth graders learn about schools, their own, the ones in Spanish-speaking countries, and this one that fit perfectly for them to discuss not only vocabulary in context but bullying.

Marie Curie or my student who will become our next Nobel laureate

We learned about Marie Curie because she was a person one of my students admired deeply and we had to talk about her when we talked about her interests. I love how Edpuzzle allowed me to focus on specific sections to create questions that guided my students into comprehending the information independently and successfully.

Inspiration, soccer, and reading

My students loved learning about Marco Antonio while they watched him play soccer and read what his story was about. There was just a little audio they had to listen to but it was mostly captions they associated to the photos they were seeing. Letting students work at their own pace pausing or rewinding the video proved to be a challenge they enjoyed taking. They felt a great sense of accomplishment that I could notice when they interacted in class about the video.

Food for thought

We teach a language and the possibilities are endless in terms of all we can learn and what we can do. I loved learning how to make Paneer, the favorite dish of one of my students, and he was so surprised he learned the recipe from a native Spanish speaker before he learned it from one of his relatives who were usually the ones who made it for him. Thanks to the pauses and the small sections, my students were able to focus on identifying the key details they needed to answer my questions.

And what if the input is in English?

Well, I believe there are many ways to learn something and especially to learn a language. This trailer is in English but my input is in Spanish. My students needed to focus on scenes or audio to figure out the answers to my questions. They answered the questions in Spanish and discussed them in Spanish, as well. Edpuzzle allowed me to keep the parts of the video that I considered to be the most important ones and discard the rest. What is not to love about Edpuzzle?

If you can see yourself using my creations in your classes, please consider leaving me a comment or following me. I would love to hear/read what you think : )