Edpuzzle

Edpuzzle is a great video resource to use when flipping a lesson or for personalizing learning. This easy-to-use site allows you to upload a video, crop it if necessary, and insert questions. When students watch the video, it will pause and not allow them to continue until they have answered a question. The questions can be open-ended or multiple choice. Edpuzzle enables teachers to personalize student learning; in the past, everyone watched the same video at the same time and I would pause the video periodically to ask questions or give a handout with questions to the students.

With Edpuzzle, students can rewatch a section of the video if they are unable to answer the question; therefore, it enables my students to watch the video at their own pace.”
 EDpuzzle can not only help you create videos but it can also help you:

• Grade The Students When you create your video lecture and add assessments, you can also include quiz at the end of the lecture. In this way, you can grade the students and see their progress if they completely understand the lecture or not. 
• Check The Progress You can not only check the progress of their understanding but you can also see which student is watching videos and which student is not. This can help you assess students and create a relevant plan for them the next day.

Here you have an example of a Edpuzzle Video

Google Drawings is a free, web-based diagramming software developed by Google. It allows users to collaborate and work together in real time to create flowcharts, organisational charts, website wireframes, mind maps, concept maps, and other types of diagrams. Google Drawings is also available as a Chrome app that works offline, available from the Chrome Web Store.

You can find Google Drawings in you Drive. The layout of this application is similar to a Drive document. You can edit, share, add links... as you do with a google document. When you finish you can get a URL or an embbed code to publish in a site or blog. 

This application is similar to Glogster or ThinkLink

Creative Commons

Most Internet content, including images and music, is protected by copyright. You need permission to use it. You also need to credit the author. You have to cite the book, web page, video, image or song you are using in your research. If you don't do it, you are committing plagiarism. This big C that you can see on the left shows you that a piece of work has a copyright.

Can we use Internet content (images, videos, books, songs...) without permission?

Of course, you can use Internet content without permission from the author. In that case the book, image, video, song or any other piece of work you want to use  has to be under a Creative Commons license

But what is Creative Commons?

Creative Commons is a type of copyright license that allows other people to reuse, distribute or even sell an original work. When you see a Creative Commons icon on an image or article, that means that you can use that material without asking for permission to the author. Anyway, the icons will give information about what type of use you can make of that material. Here you have a brief explanation of each Creative common element.

How can you get your Creative Commons license? how can I insert it in my site, wiki or blog?

• How to get your own license https://creativecommons.org/choose/

Where can we find images or music under the licenses of Creative Commons?

• Pixabay
• Unsplash
• CC search
• Picjumbo
• Istockphoto
• Freeimages
• Advanced search in Google

Music

• Free Music Archive

Animoto for Education

Animoto is a simple online video editor. You can upload your own pictures, short videos till 10 seconds and music. Each pictures can be described or you can add slides with short texts. in order to share stories through a short video presentation. Students will find the ability to express themselves through new media tools an attractive aspect of Animoto, and teachers can utilize this tool as a way to bridge curriculum and student engagement or develop digital storytelling projects.

Animoto offers you a free account for Education, that gives you the possibility to create 50 accounts for students. 

Here you have a short tutorial explaining how to create your Animoto account for Education. The explantion is in Basque with Spanish subtitles. 

We have use this useful application to create our book trailer. If you want to know more about book trailers, visit our site

Kahoot

As they say in their platform:

"A Kahoot is a collection of questions on specific topics. Created by teachers, students, business-people and social users, they are asked in real-time, to an unlimited number of “players”, creating a social, fun and game-like learning environment."

How does it work?

Kahoot! is a free, multi-platform, game-based classroom response system. It works on Macs, PCs, iPads, Android tablets and smartphones.

The teacher or the students in small groups prepare a set of multiple choice questions related to a certain topic they have studied or they are going to learn. Once signed up, the teacher creates a series of multiple choice questions with which to quiz their students, and projects it onto a screen via an LCD projector for the whole class to see. Quiz questions may include an image or even a video for the students to use as a reference to help them submit their answer. A time limit of up to two minutes can be assigned to each question, but can be as short as five seconds for quick fire answers.

Once the quiz is ready in the Kahoot app, the teacher gets a PIN code from the webpage and the students enter that PIN code and their names. Players answer questions displayed at the front of the room on their personal device or their PCs, motivated to answer correctly and score the most points. The faster someone answers a question correctly, the more points they get.

You can download the app to your mobile device from Play Store or if you decide to play from your computer, you should visit https://kahoot.it

Our Kahoots

In our seminars, the teachers have created their first quizzes. Click on the pictures, sign up in Karhoot and enjoy our quizzes.