You can easily enable a transcript or closed captions for videos in YouTube. This will assist any students, or anyone for that matter, who may have trouble following along, have a hearing issue, or where the video is not in their native language. While the transcripts are not perfect, they are computer generated for the…
There are times where you want to blur or block out part of a video that you want to upload. I create a lot of videos for students and other teachers, and sometimes find that there is something on my screen that I want to blur so I do not share an email address or…
Draftback is a Chrome Extension that allows you to play back a Google Doc as if you were recording a video of all of the edits. This simple Chrome Extension will allow a writer, or someone who is helping to give feedback to a writer, to view their writing process and see the flow…
There is a tremendous amount of useful information on YouTube, along with a large amount of not useful information. One thing we can easily do to help students, is to create a Playlist of videos related to the topic in our classroom. This could become a great resource for them to extend or enrich their…
One of my favorite tools for leaving effective feedback for students is Kaizena. Kaizena allows you to easily leave audio and text feedback for students in a Google Doc. This is a free service and one that I suggest to a lot of people because we should be more focused on feedback than grades in…
Last summer Google released the Classroom API so other programs and apps could communicate and integrate with Google Classroom. One of the most recent ones to do this is EdPuzzle. EdPuzzle is great tool for adding questions, feedback, and your voice to premade videos for use in your classroom. You can assign videos as homework…
When Google added the Calendar integration with Classroom, they pretty much released another feature that many had wanted, sharing with parents. Now, parents still can’t log into Classroom unless they use their student’s information but they can easily see the Calendar that is created with that Classroom to see due dates for assignments. This is…
Zaption, a tool that allowed you to embed questions and student feedback into a video, has come out with some updated tools that are useful for a whole-class activity. Now, if you are going to show a video to your class, keep it short and to the point. There is hardly a time where we…
Edcamp Iowa was the first Edcamp that I ever went to and I have been hooked on Edcamps since then. I have traveled up to the Twin Cities and down to Kansas City for Edcamps. Every Edcamp that I go to has been a great learning experience and has reenergized me as an educator. Edcamps…
Adding text onto images or video files inside of iMovie is not always easy with the limited selection of options. By using Google Drawing you can easily add text over your video. Just create the text you want in Google Drawing, using the large variety of fonts and formatting, leave the background as it was…
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