 Hello, I'm Bob Rzewski. Today we'll be exploring Screencastify. It's an extension that can be used for screencast recording via Chrome. Before we get started, don't forget to subscribe and hit that bell to enable notifications for our channel by clicking our logo during the video. Also, leave us a comment or check out our related videos by clicking the pop-up cards in the upper right hand corner. Here's how to get started with Screencastify. Are you hoping to find some unique ways to do some screencast with your students? Well, look no further than Screencastify. Screencastify is an extension that you can add to your Google Chrome browser and it's going to help you do awesome screencast, whether for a whole desktop or just a tab or annotation, or maybe you even want to do a little video of yourself in that lower corner. First, you want to do is head over to screencastify.com and you're going to add this to your Chrome browser. After that's been added, it creates an extension on your toolbar and you'll just need to go through the initial setup on how to sign up with your Google account. You want to make sure that you set all the permissions. Okay, and before we go any further, I do want to go over some of these updates that are recently going on with it, including a lot of nice new features here, like unlimited number of recordings. You are just going to be limited to how long the video is meaning five minutes. Great updates, great ways that you can share your videos as well, and now that I have the extension, I'm going to go on a full screen and I'm going to hit my little extension icon up here. If you want to do webcam only, you can click on that and now I'll just access your webcam. Maybe you want to do an engaging opening to your screencast. The desktop is when we can go through multiple tabs and take it through everything on there, but let's go to browser tab for this one and make sure I can turn on my embed webcam too if I wanted to. And for browser tab, let's look at some of the options that we can or do not have for this one. I'm going to hit record so you can see that I have my little preview window down there in the bottom because I've enabled that. And in the lower left-hand corner, I now have these other options such as my marker where I can solve some simple little math problems or maybe if I just want to draw on there, I can do that. Or if I need to erase, I can erase everything I got. I can take my cursor and just draw across. So this would be a nice way I can get some tutorials and stuff done for my students. Help them out with it. I have my other options on my little preview window down here that I can click on. Maybe I want to flip it around or maybe I need to go back in full screen and show you something really quick. Oh boy that is really big. So let me hit the screen again to get down to just a window. Don't want to distract the students too too much. If you're in chrome like I am and if you need to get out of not showcasing your browsers, I'm on my Mac so I'm going to hit command shift F and now take me out of that. If I were to go to another tab and I'm going to click on that, let's see if this shows up in my recording as well for screencastify. Notice now that my tools are not down here on the bottom. So that is a drawback of the tab mode. Tab mode is really designed for just that one tab that you're in and you can see my icon right here. That would be the one I'm recording, the one I'm drawing on, and the one that's going to be saved for screencastify. So you can see this part when I went black. That's probably when I went to another tab at that time. So use your tab recording for just one tab at a time. Use desktop recording for all tabs and use webcam if you just want to record your webcam. One of the beauties of this tool is that your video automatically goes to your google drive when it's all done. You can publish it right to your youtube channel if you have one of those set up. I love the instant share to google classroom because then you can just pick your class and where it needs to go to. But maybe you want to go back and trim it up or add some effects. They do have an editor but that is a premium feature that you can utilize. But I do want to just show you how to trim. Maybe you need to take a little bit off the beginning or end and you would just hit your little scissors on the main video page and decide what you need to bring in. Again maybe I just wanted to focus on my main page here where I just go over the website so I bring my scissors in, scrub back and forth. It should stop. I could see my new playtime. If I hit the play button it would just play that. If I'm happy with it I'm going to hit save trim and it will take over the original video and that's okay because I've already got it recorded on my list screen. Okay so I have my trim video now. This is my name of the video file. I can call whatever I wanted to. That'll save. You can trash it. You're going to get that link again. You can share all these other options. Even more options. Maybe you want to make some interactive things with QR codes in your class. I'm going to save this video for to be combined later so I'm just going to export it as an mp4 and I'm going to just keep it at 30 frames. Now that has been exported I have to actually save it to my computer so I'm going to now download it. Know what it's called and where I'm saving it and now I'm saved. But maybe you want to go a little step further and that's by hitting our more options button on to the side. All of your recordings will go to a particular folder in your google drive signed with your g.org account. If you want to go unlimited you go for that. The editor is a premium feature. You might want to check out some options where you get to play around where it gets saved. Any other little things that you might want to play around with on there you could play around with that. Some other things you might be interested in are the classroom resources that they have available including some ideas or maybe if you even want to get a badge notifying how awesome you are with Screencastify. Thanks so much for watching. Be sure to like comment or reply to one of our other videos or share the playlist below. Subscribe to our channel and enable notifications so you don't miss out on the next episode. Don't forget to check out our other resources like this cast podcast and see what else is going on at Ory County Schools. 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