On the twelfth day of Christmas IT gave to me…

Screencastify

Screencastify is a Google Chrome extension that is freely available from the Chrome web store. It enables you to create screencasts and videos on a PC, Mac, or Chromebook. In addition to recording your screen, it combines annotation tools, record from your microphone for voice over, and you can record yourself with a picture-in-picture overlay of your webcam. Everything you record is saved to Google Drive so you can easily share the video with students, embed it on a Google Site, or upload to YouTube.

You can use Screencastify to create how to guides, tutorials, and flipped lessons. In IT Services, we mainly use Screencastify to create instructional videos and animated GIFs to add more dynamic content to our site. It is often quicker and easier to convey how to do something in a video, rather than writing a long list of steps. To see an example of Screencastify in action view my video below.

For a practical example of Screencastify, find Mark Robinson’s Bett Impact Award nomination video below to see how Humanities are employing Screencastify as one of the tools to create a flipped classroom.

More examples are available online on the Classical Civ YouTube Channel.