July 2022
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 Sticky
Joe Smith shows how to use a paper towel in this video. We can learn a lot about making videos by analyzing how he presents his message.
Make your video unexpected by surprising or teasing your audience.
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
Record a narrated video with Adobe Express. Read about editing videos in Adobe Spark.
Use Flip Camera to record yourself and use Flip’s editing tools to enhance your video. You can then download or share the video anywhere. Read about Flip Camera.
Want to highlight things on the screen with a cool magnifying glass? Download this image and then add it as media on top of an image or whiteboard in Flipgrid.
Record a narration in Google Slides. Use plenty of images to illustrate and illuminate your words. Use a screen recorder like Screencastify to record as you present your slides.
How about making an unboxing video for your topic? Here’s a Google Slides document you can copy and use for your virtual box. Here’s a PowerPoint document you can download and use for your virtual box.
Use a stand for your phone to turn it into a document camera. Import that video into Adobe Express, Flip, or Screencastify.
Make It Sound Great
Try to record the audio all in one sitting.
Use an external microphone.
Get free copyright friendly background music and sound effects from the YouTube Audio Library and Pixabay.
