Screen Recorders
The use of customization video in the classroom is easily accessible for both teachers and kids alike. Screen recorders can used in a variety of instructional activities including a flipped classroom model, providing students feedback, creating professional development modules, or giving students the freedom to create their own screen recordings. Creating engaging videos requires more than a screen recorder and a face. Teachers and students will want to start the process with an outline and maybe even a script to ensure that they're not filling their videos with filler words, awkward pauses, unclear or off-topic statements, or boring content.
Source: Common Sense Media
Resources
Screencastify is a Chrome browser extension that records your screen, face, voice, and more. To use Screencastify, find its icon in the Chrome toolbar and choose among the recording options: record a single tab in your web browser, capture all screen activity, or use your webcam to record or insert a video of yourself. While recording, use the tools to write, draw, erase, keep time, restart, or spotlight a section on the screen. There's also an option to play the audio in a tab you're recording, but the sound can be hollow and difficult to hear.
Save completed videos locally in your Screencastify account or in Google Drive, or upload them to YouTube (with more customizable options available in the settings menu). The free version allows up to five minutes per video, and users will need to rely on other video editing tools if they want to make post-recording changes for free. The premium version has unlimited logo-free recording and includes video editing tools, such as cropping, trimming, splitting, and merging, with the developer promising more in the future. Premium subscribers can also use any web browser to edit videos on their drive -- not just those recorded in the extension.
