I think I am falling in love with EdPuzzle
Okay, so for this week’s learning post, I used videos I found on EdPuzzle to continue on my ASL learning journey. I found EdPuzzle a couple of weeks ago when we were challenged to use a new platform we had never used before. Check out my previous post about using EdPuzzle to get to know a little bit more about it!
The following are links to the videos I watched to help my learning
- ASL Sentence Structure
- 25 ASL Signs You Need To Know
- See it, Say It, Sign It – Letter Sounds
- Let’s Sign It – Common ASL
As I have been for the past few weeks, I have been documenting my learning with short videos. I plan to use pictures to document this week’s progress. Next week I plan to use a video to document my learning again, however, I plan to try to edit my video using Microsoft ClipChamp as I have heard many good things. In the next few weeks, I also plan on trying to use different editing software like iMovie or Lightworks.
Ultimately I decided on pictures because I did not learn as many signs this week. I focused more on making sure I know the alphabet really well and ASL sentence structure.
A couple of things to note about ASL sentence structure
- Time, Topic Comment – When signing in ASL, you sign the time first, then the object you are talking about, and then any adjective or comments on the object.
- Examples
- English Sentence – Class was great today! vs ASL Sign order – Today class great
- English – The apples went bad last night. vs ASL – last night apples bad
- If you are speaking about a person, you reference them first – if they are in the room you index or point to them
- Ex: English – Mom went to the big city yesterday. vs ASL – Mom yesterday city big
My feelings on the EdPuzzle Videos
- Information – 8/10
- Engagement – 9/10
- Comments – The way EdPuzzle is set up, it is much more interesting and engaging. The videos would stop and ask questions to check your understanding, and I found that extremely helpful because it allowed me to stop and think for a minute before continuing on in the video. I think I retained more information this week than other weeks. Overall I re
- Overall Rating – 9/10
If you do not remember how my rating system works, check out my second learning project blog post – I explain it in more detail in that post.
To end my post I want to highlight this video.
It is one of the videos I watched on EdPuzzle and I think it would be a great resource for the classroom if you want to introduce students to sign language and practice the letters and sounds of the alphabet. This song/video prompted me to use kids songs/videos using ASL as my resource for next week!
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Just tried Edpuzzle for the first time through your classroom. I gotta say, it lives up to the hype you’re describing. I think using this as extra review material for tests would be great for those who need it. This could also be used in a distance-ed setting where a student can still participate even though they may be unable to go to school that day due to sickness or something else.
Doing a great job so far!
Right! The more I play with EdPuzzle, the more I realize how useful it could be. One thing I realized this week is that it helps ensure students are watching the full video and not skipping through, as it will not let the students submit the video/assignment until the whole video is watched. Thank you
Hi Alannah! I think you did a great job of incorporating pictures into your blog post this week and I liked that you had the captions beside them explaining what you were doing. It was also cool how the pictures slid to show the next step. I appreciated you incorporating all the resources you have used and the ones you plan to try! You are rocking it with the technology 🙂