How to Play Wordle

In this week’s class, we had a great workshop class with guest speaker Rich McCue. The speaker went over numerous EdTech resources to use within educational videos such as, timelapses, slow motion, 360º cameras, GIFs, and virtual reality. With Rich, we learned how to make our own interactive screen recorded educational video using Screencastify and the H5P program! I chose to create a video explaining how to play the online game Wordle with multiple choice questions embedded throughout. Check it out below!

I’ll definitely be using H5P tools for my own class projects and in my own future classrooms! I want to teach more intermediate elementary classes so I think students would be able to learn indepentantly with H5P tools like the tutorial videos we made in class. My Link2Practice partner and I actually had the chance to lead a picture book art activity in our grade 4/5 class and the picture book I wanted to use was not available to us in hard copy. Thankfully, there were a lot of youtube videos online of teachers and students reading the book so all was well and lesson went great! Despite the book being read to the students from a video, the students were really engaged. The book was called The Little Ghost Who Was a Quilt by Riel Nason.

In the future, I could incorporate H5P tools to embed interactivity in my own picture book reading video. The video would include questions that pertain to the activity planned around the book. For example, our art activity about The Little Ghost Who Was a Quilt, was for the class to create their own quilt ghost by creating many square patches with different patterns with a cool tone focus. These art elements and the acitivty itself can be introduced, hinted at, and or highlighted through interactive questions throughout the book reading video. There could be questions such as, “What kinds of colours do you see on the quilt ghost?” or “What shape is the quilt made up of?”.

According to the Multimedia Learning Theory, including interactivity to a video should increase longterm understanding. Having multiple mediums within our learning and teaching tools engages students by requring multiple senses and active minds. In the case of the picture book video with interactive questions, there is incentive to listen in order to answer questions correctly and the questions embedded in the video are preparing students for the activity that will follow. I’m so glad I got to learn how to use this amazing H5P tool! I know it’s going to come in handy in the future and even right now as I go into practicums and work as a tutor.