Playposit - A web based tool for all learners
Over the past year and a half I have been using a web based tool called Playposit to design videos for my classes. I started off mainly using this for my AP Physics C students to help address their specific needs. My AP Physics C students are gifted and talented students, the best at the school. The are all seniors and it is a small class due to the high level of subject matter and prerequisites. AP Physics C is 2 separate AP courses that are calculus based and require the students to have already completed a physics class and to have taken or be concurrently enrolled in a calculus course. The students are all seniors and come from culturally diverse backgrounds. They have some of the highest GPS's in the school and are motivated hard working students.
Playposit is a web based video service that I can use to create videos for my students to watch outside of class. The videos are typically hosted on YouTube but the students must log in to Playposit to watch them. I can embed a variety of questions and links during the videos and the site will record the time the students watch the video at as well as the answers to the questions I embedded. During class the next day I can let students begin working on problem sets, labs or other activities without having to lecture. I can then take time to address misconceptions from the videos with small groups of students or individually depending on the results and feedback provided by the Playposit analytics .
Here is a link to the Playposit site:
https://www.playposit.com
and here is a link to a video I created for my students. Normally students would be required to sign in to their account to watch a video, and they would not be allowed to fast forward or skip questions, but I have disabled these options on this video so you can explore easily.
https://www.playposit.com/play/458873/static-and-kinetic-friction
REFLECTION:
I started using Playposit because I was having trouble covering all the material in class. Generally for notes I use my iPad to annotate over PDF files but talking while I write is not always easy and my handwriting can get sloppy when I'm not concentrating and taking my time to write. I could see students getting bored during lectures and some students caught on quickly while others need to revisit topics a few times before catching on. Some students were also cheating on their homework sets by copying solutions from online resources and each other. I wanted to flip my classroom so I could monitor students as they worked on problem sets.
Playposit has turned out to be a great way to accomplish this. As Lever-Duffy and McDonald (2015) noted, talented and gifted students are challenged and engaged by the problem solving, simulations and interactive experiences that technology can provide. Playposit can provide all of those while allowing me more time in class to address individual student needs.
I often take videos that other people have put on youtube and make them into playposits. Like Professor Walter Lewin who has all his MIT lectures on introductory physics online. His lectures contain great demos that I would never have access to at my school given the equipment I have access to. Robyler (2016) stated that technology can motivate and engage students and by watching high level math and science skills being used in real life. All of the student in my class are headed to college and many of them apply to top schools like MIT. They really enjoy the fantastic demos and the glimpse they get into what a college course may be like.
No technology is without problems though and there are some drawbacks to Playposit. Students occasionally have technological difficulties logging in and I can imagine that tey may watch the videos in a distracted environment with a TV on or while using their phone while waiting for questions to come up. Overall though I have found it well the effort of making videos to share with them.
REFERENCES
Lever-Duffy, J. and McDonald, J. (2015). Teaching and learning with technology. 5th ed. Boston:
Pearson Education.
Roblyer, M. D. (2016). Integrating educational technology into teaching (7th ed.). Boston, MA:
Pearson Education.
Playposit is a web based video service that I can use to create videos for my students to watch outside of class. The videos are typically hosted on YouTube but the students must log in to Playposit to watch them. I can embed a variety of questions and links during the videos and the site will record the time the students watch the video at as well as the answers to the questions I embedded. During class the next day I can let students begin working on problem sets, labs or other activities without having to lecture. I can then take time to address misconceptions from the videos with small groups of students or individually depending on the results and feedback provided by the Playposit analytics .
Here is a link to the Playposit site:
https://www.playposit.com
and here is a link to a video I created for my students. Normally students would be required to sign in to their account to watch a video, and they would not be allowed to fast forward or skip questions, but I have disabled these options on this video so you can explore easily.
https://www.playposit.com/play/458873/static-and-kinetic-friction
REFLECTION:
I started using Playposit because I was having trouble covering all the material in class. Generally for notes I use my iPad to annotate over PDF files but talking while I write is not always easy and my handwriting can get sloppy when I'm not concentrating and taking my time to write. I could see students getting bored during lectures and some students caught on quickly while others need to revisit topics a few times before catching on. Some students were also cheating on their homework sets by copying solutions from online resources and each other. I wanted to flip my classroom so I could monitor students as they worked on problem sets.
Playposit has turned out to be a great way to accomplish this. As Lever-Duffy and McDonald (2015) noted, talented and gifted students are challenged and engaged by the problem solving, simulations and interactive experiences that technology can provide. Playposit can provide all of those while allowing me more time in class to address individual student needs.
I often take videos that other people have put on youtube and make them into playposits. Like Professor Walter Lewin who has all his MIT lectures on introductory physics online. His lectures contain great demos that I would never have access to at my school given the equipment I have access to. Robyler (2016) stated that technology can motivate and engage students and by watching high level math and science skills being used in real life. All of the student in my class are headed to college and many of them apply to top schools like MIT. They really enjoy the fantastic demos and the glimpse they get into what a college course may be like.
No technology is without problems though and there are some drawbacks to Playposit. Students occasionally have technological difficulties logging in and I can imagine that tey may watch the videos in a distracted environment with a TV on or while using their phone while waiting for questions to come up. Overall though I have found it well the effort of making videos to share with them.
REFERENCES
Lever-Duffy, J. and McDonald, J. (2015). Teaching and learning with technology. 5th ed. Boston:
Pearson Education.
Roblyer, M. D. (2016). Integrating educational technology into teaching (7th ed.). Boston, MA:
Pearson Education.
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