Creating Interesting Video-Based Lessons with TED-Ed & Edpuzzle 📹💡🖋️
Hey there! What have you been up to, Joyers? ☺️
Today, I will share something very special to you. I myself
even knew these things very recently. Just imagine that you can create
educational videos with your own-compatible questions VERY EASILY or even with AI-generated
questions. Oh, I’m just very thankful for the advancement of technology in this
era. Without further ado, let’s just discuss it!
Yesterday, I tried the following apps: TED-Ed and Edpuzzle. They
are software that we can use to create lessons easily with videos from YouTube.
You can get into them by clicking ed.ted.com for TED-Ed and edpuzzle.com for Edpuzzle.
Now, let’s discuss their similarity. First thing first, they
are similar in their general function and purpose which is to create
educational videos. Then, we can utilize YouTube videos in both apps by just
copying and pasting the video URL or writing the keywords. Moreover, we can
give similar question types, multiple choice and open-ended questions, as well
as hints to the video we create with those apps. Lastly, we can share the video’s
link through any platform that we have, such as social media, by just copying
and pasting the link. Thus, these are the similarities of these apps.
Yet, these two apps have several noticeable distinctions. Firstly,
we need to watch the video until the end before answering the questions in
TED-Ed, while the questions will pop up during our watching the video in
Edpuzzle. So, we can get fresher knowledge and better memory used to answer the
pop-up questions in Edpuzzle. However, others may prefer to watch the video until
the end first, like in TED-Ed, to enjoy the visual content, but it risks them
to forget the information they receive. Secondly, about the questions again, in
Edpuzzle, we can control the position of the questions to pop up in the middle
of the video, while in TED-Ed, we can control the position of the hint, not the
question since we need to watch the video until finish first.
Thirdly, about the content of the video, we may cut the
video and add audio questions or give voice-over to the questions in Edpuzzle,
while in TED-Ed, we don’t have this feature. Fourthly, in TED-Ed, we can provide
a discussion forum and give more references for our viewers, while in Edpuzzle,
we can’t. Fifthly, in Edpuzzle, we may generate questions with artificial
intelligence (AI), but this feature is not available for all YouTube videos. Sixthly,
we even can record and upload our own videos in Edpuzzle to be used as the material,
while we won’t be able to do this in TED-Ed. Following it, in TED-Ed, we need
to publish our video so that it will be saved, but still the video is private
and shared to those who know the link only, and if we don’t publish it, the
video will disappear, while in Edpuzzle, our videos will still exist as drafts
there if we haven’t published it. Lastly, we can directly share the video’s
link through email in TED-Ed, while in Edpuzzle, we can share the video link by
online classroom platforms such as Moodle and Google Classroom. So, these are
the detailed differences between TED-Ed and Edpuzzle.
Furthermore, after experiencing using those two apps, I
prefer TED-Ed because the visual element and the home page of the app look more
professional and simpler to me. Even, TED is a very popular app, so that in my
opinion, using TED is more prestigious. Overall, it is just my personal preference.
Maybe it is because I already used TED repeatedly in my lessons in college, so
I am more familiar with it. However, frankly, I also acknowledge that Edpuzzle
has more various features like giving voice-over, cutting, and recording our
own video.
Moreover, to give a more practical example, someday I will
use my videos from TED-Ed in my teaching. For example, when I teach another
subject in English, like biology for the 8th-grade students in an international
junior high school, I will create a video about caffeine by taking a video from
YouTube and give five (5) multiple choices and two open-ended questions in it.
I will give that video to my students to introduce the material of addictive
substances; caffeine, to them in a cheerful way.
So, this is all I can share about those aforementioned two
apps. I hope that you can learn something new from what I shared. Please try
using those two apps to enhance your teaching, Joyers.
See you next time! God bless you!😇🌟
Vanessa's TED-Ed lesson video about Caffeine
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