New Chromebook Screencast Tool!

No more need for loom, screencastify, or screencastomatic! Chromebooks now have a Screencast Tool that includes automatic transcripts, annotations, and editing! Read more.

Video link: https://youtu.be/hHyPcIHvlxo 

Don't forget, we also have licensing for WeVideo in FISD if you need to use green-screen or need collaborative editing features. Contact your DLC for more info!

Canva's new Video Editing tool!

This is so exciting! Canva now has a video editing tool! Check out what Richard Byrne from FreeTech4Teachers has to say about it. Read more.

Common Craft's COVID Kit

 

Common Craft has shared their COVID Kit which includes 3 silent videos about COVID topics. Check it out!

Using Video in Your Classroom

WeVideo is a web-based (website, Google Play, iTunes) video editor that includes options for cropping, changing speed, adding titles and credits, using green screen, adding voiceovers, recording the screen and webcam simultaneously, and more. Best of all... allows for collaborators on the same video! Frisco ISD has many paid licenses for WeVideo which means you and your students are not limited by the free account limitations! 

See this list of 10 Ways to Use Video in Your Classroom. 

Let me know if you're interested in using WeVideo with your students with our FISD accounts!

Get Creative with Google Slides Creator Studio

TCEA recently shared this post about creating videos, animated gifs, and more from Google Slides with Creator Studio. Check it out!
Read more.

PowToon Videos

If you have any PowToon videos created before 2017, you need to convert them from flash to HTML5.

Log in to PowToon, choose the video you created and click convert. Double check pictures and transitions after the conversion. When you log in, a video tutorial will pop up that includes instructions. The deadline is March 31!

Veescope: Green Screen Images and Video

If you're looking for a free green screen app, check out Veescope! Currently it's only available in iTunes. There is a watermark on the video/picture but it's free!

If students have access to a Mac (desktop Mac or MacBook, not iPhone or iPad), iMovie also does green screen. 

YouTube's Video Editor is Going Away

Google announced back in July that they are discontinuing the YouTube Video Editor. Enhancements are remaining, the clip editor is going away. Read more about it here and here.

10 Ways to Create Videos on Chromebooks

Richard Byrne at FreeTech4Teachers recently posted a list of 10 ways to create videos on Chromebooks. I recommend you check it out!

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Math Video Resources

This year our math department has new curriculum. These videos do not match the new curriculum's way of teaching concepts but they may be helpful for struggling students. Feel free to use and share these!

WOWmath.org’s Playlists covers Algebra II, AP Calculus AB, AP Calculus AB Practice Problems

The New Boston: Geometry & Algebra

Math Doctor Bob covers Algebra I & II, Calculus, Statistics, Geometry and more

Patrick JMT

Numberphile fun math facts

YayMath includes Algebra I & II, Geometry, Statistics

Vidra: Video Creator iPad App

If you're looking for an iPad app to easily create explainer and other types of videos, check out the new Vidra app. 

30 second preview video

It’s A LOT like Adobe Voice.

• Make individual slides and add your voice to each.
• Large image / clip art library or upload your own
• Sound library for background music or use your own.
• Automatically combines slides into a single video.

But what makes this app better(?) is that the video will export to your iPad’s Photo Album and/or Youtube.  So the final video isn’t stuck only on a separate website like Adobe Voice.

• Also, it doesn’t require an account.
• You can draw your own sketches.
• Text boxes are more traditional and have more space.