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Ted Ed

TED Ed

I took about an hour playing around with Ted Ed, and here are some of my thoughts:

1. It is a really cool website. I like how it is easy to search so many videos on so many different topics.

2. It was user friendly and step by step when creating an assessment. The assessments can be open ended or MC. I really like how there is a feature where you can leave a “video hint” which tells the students which time in the video they should watch to find the correct answer.

3. It is very time consuming. I would be more likely to use this in the long term if I knew that I were going to teach the same subject for several years!

4. Further discovery: I would like to see how students interact with the video lessons, what type of data can be gathered on student performance, and whether or not there are any pre made assessments that I could use (and better yet modify) rather than making them from scratch to save time

Next, I wanted to take a look at what it would look like from a student perspective.

I figure the easiest way to share the lesson is to post a link to it on Schoology. This way students won’t have to spend an eternity trying to get the exact link correct. Anyways, this is what it looked like for the student:

One concern I have with using the site is that Youtube is blocked on student computers. I hope our district considers unblocking it!

I would seriously consider using this as a formative assessment tool, especially for introducing a new topic!