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School Media Specialist, Tech

AASL Recommended Apps: Clips

In June, the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) announced their Best Apps for Teaching and Learning 2018. The apps encourage qualities such as creativity and collaboration, and encourage discovery and curiosity.

The app Clips allows you to “turn your iPhone into a video production studio with Clips. Create and edit dynamic videos with the ability to add subtitles, animated stickers, filters, and music, all within the app. Videos are easy to make and share via text or social media.” 

Platform: iOS
Cost: FREE
Grades: All

This article from Ed Tech Team covers both the app and also instructions on how to flip your classroom by creating Clips videos. The author is a high school teacher and believes this app can be extremely useful to students. “By having videos that prepare them for lectures, engage and entertain them, reinforce instructions, and highlight key concepts, our students are being set up for success.”

Common Sense Education has this review of the app, which contains pro/cons along with ideas for ways to use the app for teaching like for recording book reports or making presentations in foreign languages.

Watch this quick video to get an idea of all the cool capabilities that come with Clips:

 

Training

Training Tips: Quick and Easy Video Creation Tools for Making Tutorials

Prime Video

We like to watch videos – but they need to be GOOD videos to actually hold our attention.

Browse through the tips in this article from the Journal of the American Association of School Librarians, and get some ideas for your own video creation – as well as making videos with your students.

“Today, I don’t bother with a fancy studio to create and share videos. Here are some of the ways that I create and post videos. These are straightforward videos… nothing fancy, no animation. (If I want to be fancy, I use other tools for special occasions.) Most of the time, I keep it simple and limit the tools because I need to work fast.

Screencast-O-Matic: This website will allow you to document anything on your screen. I use Screencast-O-Matic when I need to illustrate steps. The free version provides 15 minutes of recording with a watermark.

  • Tip: If you are serious about making videos, you might consider paying for the premium version. It is inexpensive. The features are priceless. For example, the premium features will allow you to record just the computer audio with a PC. You can also edit videos and make longer recordings.

PowerPoint: When I want to make a quick video of my presentations, I use PowerPoint. I don’t use this option to show in-depth steps.

  • Tip: The video can be shared using Office 365. Any teacher or student can get Office 365 Education for free by signing up with their school email address.

YouTube Live Streaming: I like this option because, after set up, it is a matter of clicking on a button to record. You can capture yourself talking to other people and show your faces and screens. Use this Google support site to get started: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2474026?hl=en.

  • Tip: Live-streaming video goes directly to the user’s YouTube channel and is public. Change the settings after uploading the video.

iMovie: This is for IOS operating systems. I like the way my videos look professional when I finish. The only problem is that I spend too much time playing around with it.

  • Tip: If you don’t have a MAC, iMovie is also available for the iPhone and iPad. Windows had a similar program called Windows Movie Maker. Shotcut (https://shotcut.org/) is an alternative to Windows Movie Maker. As always, use due diligence before downloading programs to your computer. Moreover, Microsoft has updated Microsoft Photo to create videos.”

Read the rest of this article here, for more ideas on hosting and other good ideas!