Screen Recording with Screencastify

Screen recording is a powerful tool that anyone can use to show what they know, help a friend, or just have fun by clicking the record button and utilizing tools on the computer. Students began with a visit to the Chrome Webstore  to find and install the Chrome extension Screencastify. 

Next they watched a short screencast demonstration of making a new folder in Google Drive. Once the raw video file was ready, they watched as I opened in the editor to demonstrate specific tools, crop, trim, zoom in, and titles. Although there are some additional annotation tools, our focus was to remove any personal data with the crop tool, trim unwanted parts of the video clip (a sneeze or dead space), use the title tool to add a title or "closed captions," and zoom to focus on key points in the video like a pop-up menu or button to be clicked.

We also spent time reviewing file extensions as we are now focused on video files, or mp4's in this case. Not to be confused with Chrome Extensions.

Want to give Screencastify a try, check out my tutorial below.