Instructional Videos and ScreenCasting


Video/Screencasting
Videos can be used in a variety of ways in K-12 education by teachers and students. Whether you are a digital immigrant or a digital native there are plenty of ways to incorporate videos or screencasting into teaching in order to make lectures a more engaging and beneficial experience for students. Using educational videos is a way to engage students visually and serves to meet common core standards. Videos can also be used by students to create projects to prove content knowledge or tutoring lessons for a fellow student. Videos can also turn slideshows into instructional videos, which is why presentations can seem like videos.

Instructional videos are high in demand as teachers discover 'flipped' or "blended" learning models for teaching. They are also very useful in supporting students through RTI models. Students can use a variety of products to present content to teachers and peers or for projects. Many opportunities exist for students to create explainer videos as tutorials for anyone and evidence of their own learning; especially in 1:1 classrooms. This type of project or integration definitely supports creativity and common core integration!

 Below is a list of ways to incorporate videos and several links to lessons online.

Lessons & Ideas:


Movenote


Movenote is a new app and online site that allows you to create instructional videos using your favorite PowerPoint or individual slides.


Go to Movenote and sign up. You can even have it added to your Google Drive so you can record videos there.


Sign in, click to add slides from your computer or from Google Drive. Movenote will take a few minutes to convert your slides.


Then allow the app to have access to your microphone and video cam and begin recording.


You can even pause mid-recording if you need to, preview and continue.

You can then upload this to Youtube, Vimeo, Google Drive or as a mp4.

I love this, my students have created several videos, some of those are:

  • Explain computer shortcuts learned to two other people and record your experience.
  • Describe our PeerHelper Program here at the school by creating a video.
  • Solve a math problem you learned step by step to help another student.
  • Explain everything you learned about Genetics unit in a video with drawings and voice over.
  • Learn about various types of email scenarios and then create a video or animation of your learning.

Educreations





This is an iPad add that allows you to record a video for students to watch later or you can create a Whiteboard type of lesson and actually use it to teach your lesson interactively.

Doceri

Using an iPad to instruct your students? Turn your Power Points into interactive live presentations. You can use Doceri Whiteboard to create a slideshow integrating images from the web and scripting as you present. You can write and erase on the go, what a creative way to present rich lessons to your students. Even better, you can record your lessons and have students watch them later. 
You can even flip your lessons!




Screenr


This site lets you record your screen and will also record your voice, creating a screencast of your lesson. You have to have Java installed to use this app or online site.




Camtasia


Camtasia allows you to create a video online to use for instruction, your students can also use this to record videos of their learning or understanding.








Explain Everything


This app, available from iTunes and Google Play, remains a top tablet app in the U.S. It's perfect for screen casting any subject.







Jing

Jing is an Internet-based product that allows you to take screen captures of your screen and make recording for colleagues or students.


Videos can be used in many ways in the classroom. I've used them as:

  • Instructional Videos for presentations
  • Flipped Classroom
  • Blended Learning
  • Student Assessment of Content
  • Project Video
  • Story-telling

 Some of the products I've used are listed below and include a brief summary. You can link directly to the sites.


Adobe Captivate - Adobe's Capitivate 8 allows users to create a variety
of videos, simulated lessons, quizzes, or instructional videos. You can also combine these for flexible presentations that are beautifully designed with impeccable graphics.

Animoto - Make great videos. Easily.
Everything you need to turn ordinary photos and video clips into rich videos.
GoAnimate - 

Animated characters, backgrounds and props for students to use in their own creations of their learning. They can add a voice through narration or transform the text into audio for a cartoon-style video. My students love the awesome characters to choose from; however, upgrade required for longer videos. For free access you can create shorter than a minute videos.

 Vimeo
Turn your own videos into vividly enhanced works of art with cinematic effects and music.
PowToon
Create explainer videos to use as tutorials for another student and an assessment of students' knowledge on various subjects. These are great project-based tools to use and the site has tutorials on how to use this product.
 

Other Products to Use

  • Magisto - Free and paid options available. Videos with music, video, and photos.
  • YouTube.com - Source of video content but you can also create Google Search Stories and upload your videos here.
  • Empressr - Free! Add text, images, and multimedia (audio and video) to projects.
  • Screencastomatic: This is my go-to app. It's free, but I pay a few dollars for the pro service because I love it, it gives advanced editing features, and I can download to Dropbox. You can see that my YouTube tutorials are recorded with this.

CCSS aligned lessons - linked Edex

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