I’ve been a fan of Edpuzzle for years, often using it with my IB Theory of Knowledge and my Intermediate ELL History students.

However, I’ve never been able to use it with ELL Newcomers, and it’s always also been a bit problematic even with Intermediate ELLs because it never provided the ability to adjust video speed.  Some audio narration is just too fast!

Today, though, I used Edpuzzle for the first time in a while, and discovered that it now does offer that feature (see the circled image above).  By clicking it, you can easily slow it down to .75 or even slower.

That will be a big help!

Now, I just wish their AI tool for creating questions was better – it has not impressed me, at least.  I find that the AI in Quizizz seems to be far better at creating questions for videos.  Unfortunately, though, Quizizz doesn’t have Edpuzzle’s ability to show the video to students in front of the class – they can only watch it on their own.  It will be a game-changer once they add that feature – gamifying watching the video is a far more engaging experience for students.

FluentKey does just that, but it’s been working so slow these days that it isn’t usable in my classes.

The other possible video option – for me, at least – is if our district gets the paid version of Google Classroom next year (which is a possibility). If that’s the case, it includes an interactive video feature that uses Google’s AI tools.