Why use videos with your students?

•Videos are powerful, useful tools. 
• Reach different types of learners.
•On-topic videos can help students engage with the subject matter on a deeper level. 

*According to Sarah Kunze, Instructional Designer at Colgate University 2017 Campus Technology Conference

Using Videos With Students

Just watching videos, requires passive involvement from the audience.
Interactive videos, however, allow you to take that video content and add questions to each video, which turns a passive experience into an active one.

Interactive Video Tools

PlayPosit
EdPuzzle
TedEd
Panopto
Nearpod video

What is PlayPosit?

PlayPosit is a web-based video tool. With this tool, instructors can add questions and hotspots to online videos.
PlayPosit offers free and paid plans. The free plan is for individual teachers and is free always( not a trial).

Regardless of which plan an individual gets, PlayPosit offers the following for everyone:
-Templates for quick content creation.
-Access to free premade content library.
-Detailed analytics to understand when learners are succeeding or struggling.

Demo of a PlayPosit interactive video.

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What kinds of questions can be added to a PlayPosit video?

-Multiple Choice
-Check all that Apply
-Free Response
-Poll
-Fill in the Blank
-Discussion Board 

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Additional interactions that can be added:

-Reflective Pause
-Web embed ( embed an external link in the video)
-Templates like Table of Contents, Place in Order, Vocabulary Lists, and Exit Tickets.

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If the instructor uses a Learning Management System(LMS), students do not need a username or password to access the videos. They just need to click on the link to access the video lesson.

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So how do students access the video lessons?

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If an LMS isn't used, the instructor can decide if students have to make an account with a username and password, or if they want students to access the video lesson by link only.

Benefits of using Playposit

•Can be used for in-person or online classes.
•No limit to the number of video lessons an instructor can create.
•Videos lessons can be used for multiple class sessions.
•Videos can be graded and put in the instructor's digital grade book.

When considering a video tool, it is important to understand how the tool fares for accessibility.

The Disabled Population is the largest minority group in the world with at least 1 billion people.
It is also the only group where any of us can become a member of at any time.

Over 70 million people in the United States identified as having a disability.
-Source 2018 US Census

"We don’t teach to teach the privileged and the few, we teach to teach all, and if we don’t become accessible, we are not teaching everyone.”
- Lucy Greco

According to a 2020 Educause Study: "Among students with disabilities, about a third (32%) said they require accessible content, accessible technologies, and/or technology accommodations for their coursework.
Many students with disabilities do not have positive responses to how their institution supported their need for accessible content and/or technology accommodations."

"Assistive/accessible technology such as captioning and text-to-speech software is important to their academic success, and students with disabilities would like instructors to account for this when developing their courses." -Source

Dana C. Gierdowski and Joseph D. Galanek. ECAR Study of the Technology Needs of Students with Disabilities, 2020. Research report. Louisville, CO: ECAR, June 2020.

When it comes to content, students need to be able to...

...with the content fully to make the information make sense. If they are unable to do so, the content is not digitally accessible.

See how PlayPosit fared for accessibility from the instructor's perspective.

See how PlayPosit fared for accessibility from the student side.

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