Create Customised Lessons with TEDEd

Who has not heard of TED Ed? But did you know you could design lessons for your students on the platform?

With us being in remote learning mode, I'm constantly on the lookout for meaningful tools that I can use to engage my students and design a good learning experience for them. And this is what I discovered.

Ted Ed not only has ready lessons for you, you can customise those to suit the needs of your students, you can even create one from scratch.

You can use these lessons as:  

1. An introduction to a topic.
2. Reviewing a topic already taught.
3. Differentiate learning according to student needs and multiple intelligences.
4. Low-cost field trip, especially useful in Covid times.
5. Help cover learning gaps due to student absence.
6. Encourage students to look beyond the curriculum.
7. As formative assessment

Let's get started!

Click HERE to reach the site:

This is what you will see: 

You can get started as and educator and register with your email, Apple, Google or Facebook ID.

Add your info and you are set to go.

Just look at the variety of ways you can engage your students!

You can start creating lessons immediately:

Type in your keywords in the search bar and get a large number of student appropriate videos pulled up from YouTube. You can even insert a video that you may have recorded and uploaded on YouTube.

Select the one you want and click on Continue:

Start adding your content: 

Click on more to preview your lesson or change settings and when you are ready, hit PUBLISH:

Select how you would like your students to access the lesson. Do you need them to use their TedEd account or not. Then click on Share your Lesson.

Select how you would like to share the lesson with your students and hit SEND.

In case you need something on the go, there are plenty of ready made lessons that you can pick up, modify them and share with your students. Just go to the DISCOVER tab. 

You can filter your search by subject and level of students.

Customise the lesson to suit your students needs and you are good to go!

Try this lesson to get a feel how your students will experience it.

Happy Teaching and learning!

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Rediscovering Flubaroo

Hey Fellow Educators!

I had first discovered Flubaroo in 2015!! I shared what was then an amazing tool with my colleagues, but discovered soon that it was too limited for the subject that I teach, History and Social Science. I kept trying it for a while, but it didn't win me over...

But recently, I rediscovered it, and boy was I surprised. Pleasantly so, if I may add.

Find out why!

What is Flubaroo?

Flubaroo is an Add-On for Google Sheets spreadsheets that will automatically grade student responses to formative assessment submitted through a Google Form. You can share the results with students in multiple ways. And as an educator you can view the student data in multiple ways to understand their performance in a given assessment.

What all can you do with Flubaroo?

1. You can give Digital Badges and Stickers to your students
2. You can send standardised or individual student feedback.
3. Set up multiple correct answers
4. Give partial credits

This is only the beginning!

Ready to Start? 

1. Open the spreadsheet where your Google Forms responses have been saved.

2. In the Menu Bar click on Add-Ons Menu

3. From the drop-down click on Get Add-Ons

4. Select Flubaroo from the list

                       

5. Install

                     

6. Give the requisite permissions

7. You are ready to start!

For more detailed tutorials click on the links below:

http://www.flubaroo.com/

http://www.flubaroo.com/instructional-videos

Be a SMART Educator!

Sanchita Ghosh