Blog Involve your entire class in the discussion. At ClassHook, we help educators find and effectively use videos in their lessons to boost student engagement and retention. Today, we’re excited to announce that you can now create more active, discussion-based learning experiences for your students on ClassHook. Introducing Live Discussions! Live Discussions are a simple and […]
Month: August 2019
15 Actionable Steps for Increasing Student Motivation and Engagement
As the school year starts one of the biggest challenges teachers face with their students is keeping their students motived and engaged. Here are 15 ways you can keep your students engaged and motivated during class.
Why You Should Use Movie Clips in Your Lessons
As an educator, you’re often looking for new ways to support your students in their learning. You’ll add videos, fun activities, worksheets, and other materials to your lessons so that students can demonstrate their learning. But have you considered adding movie clips into the mix? Yes, movies. Those entertaining works of art. With their enthralling […]
Where to Find Movie Clips to Use in Your Lessons
So you want to use a short movie clip to add some spice to your lesson. Where do you start your search? You can load up Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, or another streaming service, but it takes time to find the right movie, and you still need to skim through it to find just the right […]
Use In-Video Search to Search Within Videos on ClassHook
At ClassHook, we help educators find the perfect video clip for their lessons so they can make learning more fun and engaging for their students. While we classify all of our videos by subject area and grade level, and offer robust search filters, sometimes educators are searching for videos a little differently. Consider Shawna, for […]
4 essential tips on boosting reading engagement in your classroom
With the school year upon us all. One of the biggest challenges most teachers will face is getting students to re-learn how to focus and be engaged during class. Here are a few tips from EdSurge that will help you keep your students engaged during reading lessons. https://www.edsurge.com/news/2018-05-21-four-classroom-ready-tips-to-boost-reading-engagement-gap-and-drive-learning
4 ways to increase reading engagement in your classroom
Motivating your students to read during class can be one of the biggest challenges a teacher faces in the classroom. With student attention span being at all-time low teachers are looking for creative and innovative ways to keep their students engaged with their reading assignments.
21 Ways to Check if a Student Understands What You’re Teaching
As a teacher do you ever question if a student has fully understood your lessons within the classroom? With testing and open discussions being the old standard way of figuring out if a student is picking up on the information being taught. Teachers are trying to find new innovative ways to get the same results […]
5 ways to increase student engagement
Are you looking for new innovative ways to keep your students engaged during class? Keeping students engaged during class is one of the biggest challenges teachers face on a day to day basis. Here are 5 ways from Rachel Lynette that you can increase your students’ classroom engagement.
Introducing a New and Improved ClassHook
Since the early days of ClassHook, we’ve been attentive to the educator experience. Our goal was to create a product that was intuitive, easy-to-use, fast, and most importantly, solved the problem of finding highly relevant educational content that engages students. Over the past few months, we’ve reassessed our product and noted that our fundamental design […]