Three Good Apps for Creating Videos on Android Devices. Creating videos is one of my favorite activities to do with students.
I never get tired of seeing what students create and I never tire of their enthusiasm for the creative process. I'm a big fan of letting students choose the video creation tool that they like best rather than prescribing that they all have to use the same app. By letting them choose the app they like the best, they have more flexibility in the format of their final products. That said, some students will look for recommendations from you. These are the Android apps that typically recommend for creating videos on Android devices. Clarisketch is a free Android app that has great potential for classroom use.
Stop Motion Studio Offers a Great Way to Make Videos. Stop Motion Studio is a great app for creating stop motion videos.
The app is available for iOS, Android, Windows, and Mac operating systems. The basic (free) version of Stop Motion Studio lets you take as many pictures as you like and string them together in a sequence that plays back at a frame-per-second rate of your choosing. Each frame can be edited individually before you produce the final video. You can also add narration to your video in the basic version of the app. Completed projects can be saved to your device and from there you can share them on YouTube or on your favorite social network.
The Stop Motion Studio editor does offer upgrades that can be purchased in the app. How to Make Book Trailer Videos. TheLearnia Offers a Good Way to Create Video Lessons. TheLearnia is a free service that I reviewed about four years ago when it was primarily a social network built around video lessons.
This week I took another look at theLearnia and learned that the site is now focused on helping teachers create video-based lessons. How to Make a Good Explanatory Video - Research, Planning, Editing. Great Tools for Creating Screencasts - A PDF Handout. How to Create an Interactive Series of Videos. Six Alternatives to TechSmith's Snagit, Knowmia, and ScreenChomp. This morning TechSmith announced that they are closing down Knowmia, ScreenChomp, and Snagit for Chrome.
In other words, half of their free products that teachers loved. Here are some alternatives to those tools. How to Create Recordings of Your iPad's Screen. This week's Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week was about how to create screencast videos on an Android device.
Shortly after posting that tip I had some people ask how to create a screencast of an iPad screen. There are a couple of ways that you can create a screencast video of your iPad's screen.Method 1 - If you have a Mac computer: Connect your iPad to your Mac by using the Lightning cable (the cable that came with your iPad). Then open QuickTime on your Mac.
Next select "new movie recording" from the QuickTime menu. You can then choose the name of your iPad and click record. Three Tips for Planning Video Projects. I love video projects because the entire process of developing project ideas, creating the video, and sharing the video engages almost all students.
Over the years I have helped hundreds (maybe thousands) of students and teachers create videos in their classrooms. If you haven't tried making videos with your students or you have and it didn't go as you hoped it would have, here are three of my favorite tips for planning video projects. 1. Keep it short and sweet. Three Tools Students Can Use to Add Annotations to Videos. When we talk about flipped lessons it often involves a lot of heavy lifting on a teacher's part.
From finding a video to adding questions to the video, it is a time-consuming process and in the end we're still not always sure if the students actually watched the video or they just guessed at the answers to the questions. One way to flip the standard flipped classroom model is to have students find and annotate videos that then submit to you. The following three tools can be used by students for that purpose. Tools and Techniques for Creating Screencast Videos. The question that I seem to receive in my email more than any other is, "what software do you use to create your tutorial videos.
" I use Screencast-o-matic Pro most of the time. Screencast-o-matic Pro is perfect for my needs. But there are other tools that you might want to consider for your situation. I have used all of the following screencasting tools at one time or another. The Instructional Technology Tool I Recommend in Email More Than Any Other. Every week I receive at least a handful of emails from readers who have watched one of my Practical Ed Tech tutorial videos and wanted to know how I created the video.
The Instructional Technology Tool I Recommend in Email More Than Any Other. A Seven Part Guide to Video Editing Fundamentals. Wistia is a great video hosting tool that I've written about in the past.
Besides using it to host videos, I've used it to convert video file formats. Wistia's learning center offers a lot of good advice for new and veteran video creators. Recently, they published a new seven part guide to video editing basics. The guide covers choosing your editing software, transferring footage and organizing projects, finding and assembling the best takes from live action video, trimming the head and tail of footage, adding music and B-roll, exporting a proof, and wrapping-up the project. Each part of the guide includes sample videos to demonstrate the topics discussed. Ten Good Video Sources for Science Teachers and Students. On Sunday evening I shared a list of ten good sources of social studies videos.
To keep the video source series going I've created a list of sources for educational science videos. Here are ten good sources of science videos for students and teachers. On his website and YouTube channel Montana's 2011 Teacher of the Year Paul Anderson has uploaded more than 300 quality instructional videos like the ones about biology that are embedded below.
TED-Ed offers dozens of videos on a variety of topics in science. I created a playlist of TED-Ed videos about how the human body works. Gooru is a service that aims to provide teachers and students with an extensive collection of videos, interactive displays, documents, diagrams, and quizzes for learning about topics in math and science. Learners TV has organized hundreds of academic videos. ScienceFix is the blog and YouTube channel of middle school science teacher Darren Fix. The Spangler Effect is a YouTube channel from Steve Spangler Science. Two Ways to Blur Faces in Videos. Whether it's a holiday concert, a science fair, or a sporting event throughout the school year there are plenty of opportunities for creating videos that include images and or raw video of students doing neat things. Not every student wants to appear in those videos. Likewise, not every parent wants his or her child's image to appear in those videos.
Create Interactive Year-in-Review Videos on Wideo. As the end of the year approaches we will start to see a lot of year-in-review news videos. Many of those videos will be simple montages of images set to music. Your students can do the same thing using any number of free video editing tools. If they use Wideo.co they can make their videos interactive. Show Me What's Wrong - Provide Tech Help to Students and Colleagues. Screencast-O-Matic.com is the service that I use for the screencast videos that appear in my Practical Ed Tech playlist on YouTube. In addition to the screen recording tool Screencast-O-Matic offers a service that can help you help others with their tech problems.
Show Me What's Wrong is a free service is designed to help you help others with their computer problems. To use the service enter your name and email address to have a custom URL assigned to you. You then send that url to the person who needs help. They open the link and can start recording their screens and talk about the trouble they're having. Tools and Techniques for Creating Screencast Videos. The question that I seem to receive in my email more than any other is, "what software do you use to create your tutorial videos. " I use Screencast-o-matic Pro most of the time. Screencast-o-matic Pro is perfect for my needs.
But there are other tools that you might want to consider for your situation. I have used all of the following screencasting tools at one time or another. Screencast recording on a Mac. Screencast recording in Windows. Windows 10 users have an option to create screencast videos if they install the Xbox app. Screencast recording on Chromebooks.
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