Using Blubbr to turn youtube videos into quizzes

This app has potential, although its features are not as great as they could be. First, an explanation. Blubbr allows you to take a youtube video and add multiple choice questions to twenty-second-or-less segments of the video. The question added videos are called Trivs. Only those parts of the video that you segment end up in the final product. Students earn points for answering the multiple choice questions correctly, although they only have twenty seconds to answer each question. Additionally, a buzzer sounds if the student gets the question wrong.

Click here to play the triv I created regarding the second Blogger tutorial.

It is a lengthy process to take a two-plus minute video and segment it down to twenty-second spurts. One option around this is to show the entire video then have picked out a few twenty-second or less of the most important segments to quiz the students.

Currently, there is no way to see how your students performed on the quiz unless you ask them. At the same time, adding these questions is less about "getting the students" and more about creating some interaction with the passiveness of the video, as well as helping the metacognitive workings of the student.

If are interested in how these might be able to work in your classroom, please contact me for a conference.

Keep up the good work,

MW