EDpuzzle - a nice tool for Flipped classrooms - embed quizzes into Youtube videos

EDpuzzle is a nice tool for embedding quizzes, and discussion questions into YouTube videos. EDpuzzle allows you to create a classroom within EDpuzzle, so you can assign a video assignment to your students. You can also prevent students from skipping or fast forwarding through the video.

I recently taught a Leadership class to my EFL students at a university in Korea. The text for the course was "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.", by Stephen Covey. Below, is a nice , short, subtitled video summarizing the 7 habits. I embedded short comprehension questions throughout and assigned it to my class.

I highly recommend EDpuzzle for your class, and I fully intend to use it in the future for all of my classes.

Memrise.com , My KOTESOL Conference Presentation

Last semester, I conducted a research study testing the effectiveness of Memrise.com as a tool to help students learn vocabulary. There WAS a significant difference between the control group and the experimental group on the amount of vocabulary words retained. My research partner and I are in the process of finalizing the research paper and getting it published. This past Thanksgiving, my partner and I presented our findings at the annual KOTESOL (Korean TESOL) conference.

On a personal note. I HAVE used Memrise.com to study the Korean language and I DO believe it is an effective tool for learning vocabulary, as well as many other topics. So, I highly recommend Memrise.com. It is an effective tool because it is based on the Spaced Repetition method for retaining new information.

Check it out at the following link: https://www.memrise.com/