Presented by Sarah Guite

How to create and share videos

Ideas to get students using Explain Everything

Flip the classroom, or simply use material as a resource for students

Students can access material any time from YouTube or cloud storage

Record your own lessons and publish for students to view later on

Plan, create and share ideas

Capture images and video and use in Explain Everything

For English, as a tool to improve literacy: students can upload a reading passage and record themselves reading, using the pointer feature

Explain Everything connects to cloud storage.

Using the gear icon in the top right of the home screen, select “accounts” and switch on the accounts that you would like to connect to Explain Everything.

From the home screen, use the “+” icon (on the far left) to open a blank project Use the “+” icon second to the left to open a pre-existing file or image from cloud storage.

- Hover over colours to change

- Move elements on the screen

- Add new slides - Draw

- Add Shapes - Add text

- Add photos, images, movies from photo roll or cloud - Tap an element, then tap “x” to delete it

- Undo

- Minimize the formatting toolbar

Hover over slide counter to reveal slides, move them around or delete them

Record with the red button. If there is an error, individual slides can be re-recorded

Save project files to return to your work. Use audio and explain by annotating and manipulating images. Compress and export videos.

Video can be exported to camera roll, Youtube, Box, Dropbox, and other cloud storage areas.

Set up a shared class Box folder for students to save their videos. Make sure students have edit access!

Use Creative Commons images, or have students take their own photos.

For teacher-created videos, start from a Powerpoint, so that you can later use the slides in other applications (Nearpod, for example).

Import Explain Everything videos into iMovie to create mashups with other videos and music.

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