Record Your Teaching

Strategy 5: Record Your Teaching

Recording ourselves giving "traditional" style lessons may be a good way to share learning with students. You could choose to record your screen to create a simple screencast or record yourself speaking while demonstrating.

Want to record your lesson?

Loom

Loom is a Chrome extension. It allows you to record your screen AND embed a webcam video of your face in the bottom corner. (Remember, your students want to see that you are on the other end of their screen.)

To get started...

Step 1: Accessing Loom

  • Using Google Chrome login to your OSD Google account.

  • Install the Loom recorder (visit this guide to see how to install the Chrome extension)

  • Click the icon in the toolbar on the top right hand side of Chrome browser.

  • Follow the prompts to enable the tool.

Step 2: Recording

  • Click the icon in the toolbar on the top right hand side of Chrome browser.

  • Choose to record your Browser Tab/Desktop

  • Adjust webcam and mic settings, if needed.

  • Click Start Recording and choose which screen application you want to record

Step 3: Sharing your Screencast

  • After recording, you can share your video with a link or embed it in your LMS

  • Embed in Canvas or Google Classroom

Additional Support

Introduction to Loom.mp4

Google Meet

Google Meet is a video conferencing tool that teachers can use to communicate with groups of teachers or students or record content for students. Live streaming and recording are great ways to create your own content to share with students.

Ways you might use Google Meet:

  • Create and record a webinar for reviewing content.

  • Record your instruction for sharing with students.

To get started...

Step 1: Starting a Video Meeting

  • Using Google Chrome, login to your OSD Google Account.

  • Go to Google Meet

  • Click "Join or Start a meeting" and title it (give it a nickname).

  • Click "Join Now"

Step 2: Adding Participants

  • Copy Joining Info to post via Canvas or Google Classroom.

  • Invite participants via email.

Step 3: Recording

  • Click the three dots on the right bottom side to adjust settings.

  • Click "Record Meeting".

Step 4: Sharing Recording

  • When done recording, click "Stop Recording".

  • The recording will save to your Google Drive and can be shared via Drive, email, Canvas, or Google Classroom.

Additional Support

Google Meet

Want to host a video discussion?

Flipgrid

Flipgrid is a video discussion platform, that allows students to respond to questions, topics, and reflect using video. If the teacher decides, students can also respond to each other, leave comments, and more.

Tips from Flipgrid

To get started...

Step 1: Create an account

  • Signup as an Educator using your OSD Google Account.

Step 2: Create a Grid

  • Create a "Grid" which is like a community or classroom.

  • Title your Grid and choose "Student Email"

  • Add the domain "apps.ogdensd.org" to the accepted domains

  • Share your "Grid"

Step 3: Create a Topic

  • Click "Add Topic" to start a new discussion

  • Title your topic, add a prompt and select your settings.

  • Record a video prompt to add to the Topic Board.

Step 4: Share with students

  • Share using the link, a QR Code, or embed on your LMS (Canvas/Google Classroom)

Additional Support

Flipgrid.mp4