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WHY?

Create videos for your learners to:

  • Create a welcome video each morning for your learners
  • Provide instructions for how to use your site (kids & whānau)
  • Give instructions for how to complete a task
  • Create audio to add to your Google Slides to support instructions
  • Read a story online to your kids (or if your kids have used Screencastify, get them to read a story to you, or to the class!)
  • Allow learning to be visible and rewindable!

Screencastify works seamlessly with Google Drive

Click to watch recording of this session:

Click play for help for how to use these slides:

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Three different ways to record

Tab Recording Mode is nice for a number of reasons: it lets you reference things “off camera,” creates smaller file sizes and lets your computer run more smoothly.

You can also get the benefit of having an embedded webcam and annotation tools.

Desktop Recording Mode is pretty self explanatory it lets you record anything on your computer. This is good if you want to record an application that is not in Chrome.

In this mode you can also get the benefit of having an embedded webcam and annotation tools.

Webcam Recording Mode only captures what your webcam can see. Nothing on your computer.

When using this mode you can use pen and paper to share. In order to do this you need to spin your computer around so that it is facing down, then you can record!

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Setting Up Screencastify

What is it?

A recording tool that records directly into chrome.

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You can select to record the webcam, tab or desktop.

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It is a great tool for showing your learning or teaching others through rewindable learning.

Click Here for student set up slides.

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Setting Up Screencastify

Click here to make sure yours in installed already:

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Click Here for student set up slides.

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Setting Up Visibility

Set up your visibility on your Screencastify folder:

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Screencastify Step by Step:

  1. Add Screencastify to Chrome
  2. Accept the permissions by logging in with Google (school account) and allow video and microphone
  3. Close this window
  4. Click on Screencastify extension icon in top right hand corner of your browser
  5. Record
  6. Stop recording (use the square icon in bottom left corner of screen) and a new window will pop out.
  7. Click ‘Get Shareable link’ (this is the link from your Google Drive)
  8. Go to Google Drive, search for Screencastify folder
  9. Right click on grey folder, click Share > Advanced > Change > Anyone with the link can view > Save > Done
  10. Go to Google Site or Slide Deck
  11. Google Site > Double click in white space > Yellow embed symbol > Ctrl V to paste in link > Click on video image > Done
  12. Google Slides > Insert > Video > Google Drive > Select recently created video / search for Screencastify folder and find video you want. Click insert.

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Resources:

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Previous Screencastify Toolkit by Kelsey Morgan from our Christchurch Cluster

50 Ways to use Screencastify - free e-book

Eric Curts Control Alt Achieve blog on Screencastify

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Explore below to see ways Screencastify has been used to support learning on different Google Sites around our country:

Clarelle Carruthers - Year 3-4: Google Site here

Charlotte Gaston - Year 2: Google Site here

Team 5 - Year 7-8: Google Site here

Feedback video here:

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