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Below are some ideas for touching up your existing video content, or adding elements to your straight-forward videos to spice things up.
Below are some ideas for touching up your existing video content, or adding elements to your straight-forward videos to spice things up.
Please email me to request a demonstration, and have me help you create anything you see here with your content!
Please email me to request a demonstration, and have me help you create anything you see here with your content!
Overdub Existing Online Videos
Overdub Existing Online Videos
Use Screencastify or WeVideo to record over existing content. This is a student activity. Teachers can also record over content using EdPuzzle (see below)
Use Screencastify or WeVideo to record over existing content. This is a student activity. Teachers can also record over content using EdPuzzle (see below)
MICRO PROJECTS:
MICRO PROJECTS:
Have students analyze a clip from the movie version of a novel using Screencastify. Pausing the movie and making comments.
Create a a gallery of French expressions by finding GIFs that match an expression and recording themselves in French over the meme.
Have students provide commentary on pop culture by remixing existing work in WeVideo, or recording over them in Screencastify.
BASIC HOW TO:
BASIC HOW TO:
- Use Screencastify to play a video or GIF full screen on mute, and record your voice over it.
- OR Download videos from Youtube (see ytmp3.cc for example*) and add titles or audio to overdub.
Create Animated GIFs of short demonstrations with Screencastify
Create Animated GIFs of short demonstrations with Screencastify
Keep it short: If you just need to show them one note - make it a GIF!
Keep it short: If you just need to show them one note - make it a GIF!
MICRO PROJECTS:
MICRO PROJECTS:
Have students show each other simple tips to managing their digital lives in remote learning using Animated GIFs.
Show students quick demonstrations using a whiteboard app like Jamboard using Screencastify, then create animated GIFs that can be embedded in slides, documents or classroom posts.
BASIC HOW TO:
BASIC HOW TO:
Keep your recordings to around 15 seconds or fewer without audio and you can download them as animated GIFS. The value is that they can be added to documents, or Google Classroom as an image would, but will play automatically.
See GIF on right: after you record a short clip in Screencastify, click Download and Export Animated GIF, then download when it's ready. The GIF can be added anywhere an image can.
NOTE: I also added a tutorial on how to trim off the beginning and end of your screencasts. You can also save the video to Google Drive and edit them in WeVideo if you'd like.
This is an animated GIF showing how to download an animated GIF from Screencasitfy!
DIY Document Camera
DIY Document Camera
MICRO PROJECTS:
MICRO PROJECTS:
Use your phone as a document camera/tripod to capture hi-res video of documents, books, hand-written notes, and incorporate them into a teaching video. Use WeVideo to edit animated GIFs, Screencasts and/or direct teaching videos to spice up lessons.
BASIC HOW TO:
BASIC HOW TO:
Here's another teacher's design of her DIY doc cam setup with specs!:
Cardboard box + phone + iDocCam app (Mac) IP Webcam (Android), or = free functional doc cam)
The height from table to phone is about 10 inches, for an 8.5x11” page to fill the phone screen.
This elementary teacher is using a DIY document camera setup to capture a readaloud.
Edpuzzle - Trim existing online videos
Edpuzzle - Trim existing online videos
Use EdPuzzle to Trim Video Content from the web to what you want kids to see, check if they've watched it, and add related questions to it. *also see the Assessment and Feedback entry on Edpuzzle
Use EdPuzzle to Trim Video Content from the web to what you want kids to see, check if they've watched it, and add related questions to it. *also see the Assessment and Feedback entry on Edpuzzle
MICRO PROJECTS:
MICRO PROJECTS:
- Trim clips down to just what you want them to view
- Track if kids have viewed the content you posted
- Add prompts with your voice over the video
- Add questions and quizzes during the video
BASIC HOW TO:
BASIC HOW TO:
See video
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