If the teacher has content in the form of presentation slides (MS Powerpoint or Google Slides) or other content (text on Word document, images, website etc.) on the laptop screen and wishes to feature that as part of the video-based instruction, Screencastify will be a useful free-to-use tool. Screencastify is a screen recorder for Chrome that can be used by teachers to record, edit and share videos with students. Too technical? Well, to simplify it, these are those free-to-use and easy to apply programs which your teachers can use to complement their pedagogy for remote schooling. This includes adding new features to Chrome or modifying the existing behavior of the program itself to make it more convenient for the user. Google Chrome extensions are programs that can be installed into the web browser Chrome in order to change the browser’s functionality. Today, we will get you acquainted with another treasure trove – Chrome Web Store and identify some of the available Chrome extensions which can be of immense help to educators. So far for the tech tools/ apps we have recommended, we direct you to either the Google Play Store or the Apple iStore. All that this will take is an internet enabled laptop/ PC/ tablet with an in-built or attached camera and Google Chrome as the internet browser.
In today’s blog, we will look to equip teachers of your school to create instructional videos of their own, all without having the paraphernalia of video recording and lighting equipment. Taking parental feedback on the practice of teachers sharing third party user generated video content from YouTube via messaging apps like WhatsApp and email as a passive form of imparting education, we had recommended the use of Edpuzzle for customizing and lending a personal touch to such videos
The last few blogs in our ‘Technologies for School Resilience’ series have focused on the importance of videos from a student engagement perspective, especially for virtual classrooms, while recommending the likes of Khan Academy to complement free-to-access digitized curriculum based content, including videos on teacher training platforms such as
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