Screencastify allows you to take a screencast of your tab, window, or entire desktop. You can also embed a video of yourself in the screencast. The free version limits your videos to 5 minutes. Record your screen for:
Explaining difficult concepts
Describing a process
Narrating slideshows
Install the Screencastify Extension
Quicktime is another Mac based tool for giving personalised instructions, having students reflect on work created, or showing a procedure on a website.
Quicktime Shortcut: Command + Shift + 5
Best Practice: Chunk screencasts into short segments (~5-10 minutes long). Guided questions, reflective questions or short quizzes between the short segments can help students engage more effectively with these materials.
This one stop shop for almost any type of communcation template: presentations, infograhics, newsletters, game, videos, and more. Easy to create materials with its library of visual elements, multitude of animations , and new AI features.
EdPuzzle is a great way to take embed your comments or questions into sections of a video. You can search for educational videos from sites such as Youtube, Khan Academy and Learn Zillion or use your own screencast video.
InsertLearning is an extension for Chrome Browsers that allows you to turn any website into an interactive lesson. Install the extension on Chrome, then click on the icon to use on any webpage. InsertLearning's pop-up offers features to add questions, highlights, comments, and even add a sticky note with an embedded video into selected portions of the webpage. Add a discussion for students to share their perspectives and respond to conversation prompts. When finished, share with students using Google Classroom. The free pricing option offers five lessons with an unlimited number of students.
Excellent instructional videos and exercises in math, history, economics, chemistry, biology, and more.
Pear Deck allows you to turn your slideshow into an interactive presentation by inserting different prompts including:
Draggable questions take the form of agree/disagree or thumbs up/thumbs down
Drawing questions allow students to free draw in a blank space or on a grid
Free response questions have short text, long text, and number capabilities
Multiple choice questions take the form of yes/no, true/false, or A, B, C, D
Use TED-Ed's videos and lessons to help students build their understanding and content knowledge.
TeacherTube could be a good alternative for finding learning material for elementary students.