Realizing Flip: Ponder for Video and eBooks

Pondering Video and/or eBooks for your class? Sign up for a pilot to alpha test.

Pondering Video?

If you're flipping your classroom or simply have a lot of video content you'd like your students to watch outside of class, Ponder will soon be a way for you to engage and track student activity around video.Just like Ponder for reading, Ponder for Video doesn't require you to upload anything. Ponder for video will work on Youtube or Vimeo or Dropbox or Google Drive. Just like Ponder for reading, you will be able review visualizations of your students' responses to the video along the video timeline. Even better than Ponder for reading, you will be able to manage a question queue and see where students are getting stuck watching and re-watching the same segment.

Pondering eBooks?

Ponder already works on any text that renders in a browser (including pdfs!), but we've been hankering after a way to organize Ponder activity around chapters and sub-sections for longer documents like books. So we were excited to discover an EPUB-lishing service called Thuze that integrates nicely with the Ponder browser add-on. Ponder + Thuze means you will be able to read eBooks in the Thuze web reader and organize Ponder activity around chapters and sections of long texts. (Continue reading)

Sign up!

We are looking for teachers and professors interested in trying out Ponder in these new contexts and providing us with feedback on the myriad ways it works and doesn't work with your class.For more information, fill out this short Google Doc form.Learnings from the pilots will (of course!) be incorporated into the product and released for everyone.