PlayPosit: Adding Questions to Your Choice of Videos

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Activity Description

PlayPosit helps you take a video of your choice and add questions for students to answer. It has all the advantages of videos (stop, rewind, re-watch, self-paced) as well as the opportunity to remediate student learning with specific feedback for wrong answers.

Screenshot of a sample video with inserted questions.

There is a premium account (pay) that allows a wide variety of questions types and lets you use a large bank of already created video bulbs.

While we would like to have a "pre-created" activity for you to use in class, the nature of this tool does not allow us to share activities unless we have a paid account, which we do not. But we feel it is a very valuable tool, so we are including it here in Teaching with Technology with instructions on how to use it and a couple of completed examples put together by the site creators.

We have marked a variety of levels and subject/categories for this tool, because instructional videos can be found on most topics these days, making this a great tool for flipping your class.

Please note: eduCanon is now known as PlayPosit.

Preparation

1. Create a Teacher account at PlayPosit .
2. Watch the tutorials on how to add your video .
3. Watch the sample bulbs so you see how Play Positvworks. Here are some samples: How Wolves Change Rivers and the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
4. Add a classroom.
5. Watch your video and determine the questions you want to ask and where they will appear in the video.
6. Watch the video and design the bulb (video with questions) as you go.
7. Assign your class to your video bulb.
8. Download and print the instructions for students on how to sign-up on PlayPosit and find your class. (See Example Document - Student Instructions for Using PlayPosit, above)

How-To

1. Prepare the class by discussing the topic presented in the video.
2. Distribute the handout to students and have them enroll themselves into PlayPosit. (See Example Document, above)
3. As a class, demonstrate using the sample video bulbs. (Find the links in Step 3 above under Prep.)
4. Assign your bulb to the students to complete

Teacher Tips

 

• For even more help, see PlayPosit's Knowledge Base .

Program Areas

• ASE: High School Equivalency Preparation

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