Blubbr.tv: The edu-version of Scene It!

Growing up, I used to love to play the game Scene It with my friends and family.  It would usually be the common staple to bringing together my family with our family friends on a Saturday night back when I was in high school.  In fact, it became so common place that my dog would charge to the TV screen when the film reel sound played, and we also learned that about 80% of the time the answer to the question had something to do with Harrison Ford.  When I previously taught 8th grade language arts, I used to always wonder what it would be like to have students review information in a way that was similar to Scene It - a provider of immediate feedback that is game based, interactive, and media rich.  Insert: Blubbr.tv - a user-created, pop-culture savvy, and YouTube ready site for playing and creating video trivia with friends.

On Blubbr, users create Trivs, which is basically shorthand for Triva. Here's an example of a Triv I put together on Personification:





Users can sign up for free accounts (and as of right now there is no age restriction on the site - users just must agree to not place inappropriate content online).  Once you click to create your own Triv, Blubbr will ask you to title it and then search for the video (held via YouTube) that you'd like to search for and place on the Triv.  For example, I searched "personification".  You can search then for more content on the next screen.

On the editor page (as seen below), you can search for video content, crop the video with the sliders underneath it (to shorten to only the portion you need), include a question (with 4 possible multiple choice answers), and submit your work.  You need a minimum of 5 video clips to submit your Triv.

When someone goes to take your Triv, they can receive points getting questions right/wrong and answering them within a certain period of time (i.e.: the faster you answer correctly the more points you are awarded).  They can also send the Triv to their friends and "challenge" them to beat their top score. As the Triv progresses, the small circles above the video will turn either green for correct or red for incorrect.  If someone clicks on the incorrect answer, their response will turn red immediately and the correct answer will be highlighted in green.

Of course, you do not have to create content on there as there are plenty of searchable Trivs for you to use.  Just browse the categories or search directly for what you are looking for!