In my work supporting a variety of schools, I have had the opportunity and pleasure to see the implementation and impact of ClickView in several primary school settings. I am pleased to say that the results have been overwhelmingly positive. If you aren't aware, ClickView is a fully featured video…
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Video is such a powerful medium. From TikTok to YouTube to iMovie to Apple Clips to ClipChamp to.... well there are so many. We can even take video content and use tools to build quizzing opportunities to stretch the idea of what is possible with video in the classroom even…
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Welcome to Day 20 of #Appvent22. Today's offering comes from Ronan McNicholl again and today he is sharing the newly acquired tool by Microsoft, Clipchamp. Clipchamp is a free video editing platform that was recently acquired by Microsoft. It provides a great set of free tools that teachers can use…
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Apple Clips has been around for a few years now. It’s a clever app for iPad and iPhone for making short video clips that can be enhanced in any number of ways using emoji, text, symbols, green-screen effects, AR and more! It’s become a firm favourite in many Primary school…
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Welcome to Day Sixteen of the 2020 Appvent Calendar! Today’s entry will certainly be a popular choice with many educators. This app has experienced an almost meteoric rise to fame since its acquisition by Microsoft back in 2016. The app we are talking about of course is Flipgrid! A quick…
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Welcome to Day Twelve of the 2020 Appvent Calendar! As with the other entries on the calendar this year, today’s recommended tool is one which has been a staple of my teaching and learning toolkit for many years. As a tool which at its heart, supports flipped learning and is…
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Lots of schools use Twitter to share what they are doing, from sharing the fabric of school life and the day to day activities to professional learning opportunities from the school, its teachers sharing the great work of their learners - there are so many ways that schools use the…
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Welcome to Day Nine of the Appvent Calendar. Today's featured app is one that I've been using in one way shape or form for a good number of years now. It's a great app to promote oracy and to help with lots of different creative ways to help learners explain…
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Something I often struggle to do is to find meaningful videos to use as backgrounds. A while ago I found a great app which you can use to turn your previously taken photos into animated looped videos, simply by tweaking a few elements in your image. Here's an example of…
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A great app for creating beautiful videos with voiceovers with tonnes of uses in the classroom, this video gives you an idea of what you can do with Adobe Spark Video.