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In today’s class, we covered the use of H5P to make interactive videos. I thought that this could be quite useful for maintaining students’ attention on the videos I publish and will also be a good way for students to monitor their own learning. I would probably not make the video using Zoom, partly because I am used to using other software for screen recording and also because I could not mute Zoom while I recorded my video and tried to figure out what I was supposed to do. I think it would be fun to test the limits of H5P to see if I could use it to make interactive games in the way I have done with PowerPoint:
I have found that students attend better to a lesson when they are not given the “death-by-PowerPoint” that comes from loads of text-heavy slides. I felt that the video by Dr Ray Pastore matched with what I have already learned through giving slide presentations. I think that the interactivity that he mentioned at the end of his video is important too. If there is nothing to which the students can interact, they may well disengage entirely. The age-appropriateness of this tool depends on what material is covered. The interactivity of the videos for most students may not be shared by students with disabilities. That being said, it is a useful tool and the use of interactive materials is supported in this article here:
I appreciated Sebastian’s YouTube hack of placing a – before the T in the web address to block the ads. This will help me when I am not at home and do not have my ad blocker.