Tag: YouTube

How to watch a YouTube video effectively

How useful is YouTube when you are wanting to learn a new skill? You can find tutorials on almost anything! One thing students can often struggle with though, is flicking back and forward between tabs to try something out, then going back to view the next step. Well no more! Read on to find out about a super easy way to enable the Picture in Picture mode.

Inserting Audio into Google Slides

In this short video I’ll show you a workaround to add audio to your Google Slides. You will learn how to add a hidden video from YouTube into your slides, meaning that anything (voice recording, student created music or already available music) can become soundtracks for your presentations.

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How to blur faces in YouTube videos

YouTube has an in-built editing tool which lets you quickly and easily blur faces in your videos. This is really useful if you have a video which includes students or colleagues who have not given permission for their image to be put online. Or for those times when a stranger is behaving oddly in the background of your video! You can choose to automatically blur all faces, or just blur selected faces/sections of the video.

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How to make a 3 Shot Movie on iPads and Chromebooks

This is such an easy way to structure a short movie, a great way to tell a story, and it’s a good exercise to take the students through. You can easily see these forms of shots in other movies when you know to look for them.

Student learning analytics with EDpuzzle

Edpuzzle is great free tool for creating videos with embedded questions. You can also trim videos, add voice comments and more.

All data including student answers and how many times a student has watched a section of video is added to the teacher Dashboard.

Learn how to use Edpuzzle with these simple, downloadable instructions.

Connected students are not a thing of the past…or are they?

Often when we discuss the issues surrounding technology and connected students what we are really talking about is how they interact with each other verbally or face to face. This conversation comes up regularly when we be begin talking about the increased access our students have to of technology.  Often a teacher will say to me

Can you download YouTube videos?

One of the questions I am asked all the time is “Can you download YouTube videos so you don’t have to stream them in class?” In a recent post I introduced you to YouTube EDU, a fantastic resource for finding great videos to support your lessons.  The problem is that often after finding a great

Find videos for the classroom on YouTube EDU

YouTube EDU is an educational initiative featuring more than 700,000 educational videos. It incorporates the old YouTube for Teachers channel, which was put together by a group of teachers who Google paid to watch and categorise each video according to subject and schooling stage (e.g. elementary maths). Because each of the videos has been watched by a

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