Fulton County Vanguard • May 2021
Meet up with Tony Vincent to learn about making instructional videos! Making your own videos is an opportunity to authentically reach your students. Tony has produced hundreds of instructional videos, and he shares examples, advice, ideas, techniques, and tools for creating your own videos. You can apply this information to videos you might make for distance learning, blended learning, or differentiated instruction.
Make It Personal
Bring your personality and “secret sauce” into your videos.
Appear in your video and make eye contact with the camera lens.
Make It Visual
Use Flipgrid Shorts to record yourself and use Flipgrid’s editing tools to enhance your video. You can then download or share the video anywhere. Read about Flipgrid Shorts.
Record a narration in PowerPoint. Use plenty of images to illustrate and illuminate your words. Read about recording a slide show with narration and slide timings.
Record a narrated video with Adobe Spark. Read about editing videos in Adobe Spark.
You can save video from Flipgrid, PowerPoint, or Adobe Spark and use it in another app.
Use a stand for your phone to turn it into a document camera. Import that video into Flipgrid, PowerPoint, or Adobe Spark.
The Morph transition in PowerPoint is an easy way to create spiffy animations. Read about how to use the Morph transition in PowerPoint.
Download the rocket example.
Download the Ellie Loves Science introduction example.
Download Ellie Loves Science oil and salt animation example.
Download Butterfly Life Cycle animation example.
Make It Sound Great
Try to record the audio all in one sitting.
Use an external microphone.
Get free copyright friendly background music from the YouTube Audio Library.