Today we practiced making screencast videos with Screencastify. The screencastify editing tools are a bit hard to use and very basic. I tried the Video editing software from Microsoft and it was better but I will definitely need more practice to feel confident with any aspect of it. I used OBS for a video in a different education course but I did not have to do any editing. I tried editing a recorded video afterwards on OBS but struggled to find tools other than flipping the screen. I searched online and found a post on obsproject.com that lists many post production video editing tools to use after recording on OBS -> Post Production Tools.

I would like to try making a video for my inquiry blog. At most, a 3-6 minute video length was recommended. I agree with this as I often need a break after ten minutes of watching a video, and it will probably be even less time for my future students. I am thinking about recording a short video of a picture book for my blog. I also want to try recording a short website clip with some dialogue or spoken vocabulary of an Indigenous language. After creating a video for my blog, I will try making it more interactive with the H5P tool. I have not yet practiced with this so I am excited to see how I can make use of it. I am considering doing a short quiz at the end of a blog post that explains some vocabulary. Maybe I could find a tool to move labels around on a map. 

Nowadays, classes are being increasingly taught online for various reasons. I can now better imagine myself screencasting a video to accomplish this. It can even end up being more polished and concise than a lecture done without editing. Also, while teaching a class, this could be used while showing how to better search things on the internet. If there are a lot of instructions for something, it could be a good way to relay them in an auditory and/or visual way other than just text. 

I liked the idea of recording our tech group presentation on Zoom. Especially knowing about the editing software, I think this can be a nice method to have everyone share in a cohesive way. This could be an option for high school students that have a hard time meeting in person due to sickness, extracurriculars, or other situations. 

I can think of a few ways that I could use video for science and math. The brief look at educational gifs from Bored Panda really impressed me. I found a useful subreddit r/educationalgifs. 

A QR Code that leads to a gif explaining mathematical summation notation. Taken from r/educationalgifs

Giphy also has some interesting ones, such as this chemical reaction representation: Combustion

I also enjoyed the time lapse and slow motion examples. They showed fast actions quite clearly, and made it easier to comprehend certain movements and concepts. I would like to show these to students.