 Welcome everyone. Recording lessons from home with Mac or iPad is a great option for creating that content while teaching remotely. I want to show you today just a few of the options that may be available to you. I know that I'm not going to cover everything and I'm not going to go too in depth with any one, so I encourage you to listen, just get a sense of what's possible, what's available, and then choose what's best for you to follow up with me later on and go deeper in using it to actually create that content to send home to students. We're going to cover a few tools starting with some built-in tools on your Mac laptop and then we're going to talk about some options for if you are an iPhone user for a personal iPhone or if you happen to have an iPad as well and then we're going to spend some time talking about digitizing documents, how to send home digital copies of paper resources for students, talk about sharing recommendations, and best practices. We do have time for question and answer at the end but for the purposes of this recording we'll just try to focus on that content so that you can watch and re-watch this recording, you can rewind it fast forward, and try some of the things out that you choose to be important for you later on. So with that we're going to go ahead and get started and just so you know everyone there is a link to a digital handout with some hyperlinked content with additional information. If you go to bits.ly slash clrecord lessons that should take you to this document and this is a great place to use as a reference for later on as well. This is our document and this is our agenda. So if we were in a live zoom right now I would make sure that you are comfortable with muting and unmuting yourself starting and stopping your personal video to save on bandwidth, how to access the chat to both receive and send questions and answers and so that you know that this is being recorded but this is just a recording with me myself in zoom right now. So we're going to go right away into using a built-in tool on the Mac which is QuickTime. Now QuickTime just comes with the operating system so you don't have to go out and find or install any kind of application. You can just go to your spotlight search in the top right hand part of your Mac home screen and type in QuickTime. It's going to look for QuickTime player. It shows us here that icon of that queue with the blue inside of it that's indeed QuickTime player and when you click on it it starts it, it launches it and we know now that it's the active application because in the top left hand part of my screen here it says QuickTime player. I also see it running down in my dock and just a hint or a tip for Mac users. I would recommend and this is what I've done on my machine clicking control click on that icon and going to options and saying keep in dock. There we go. So with that I can now access it anytime in my dock using the QuickTime icon and again launches it so that it becomes the active application and other than that I don't see a lot on my screen but I do now have the ability to click on file and start a new movie recording. I can just pull that up and now have a camera and I can see the audio is picking up my voice down here and I can click the record button and it just records me just like a video camera. I can hit stop and I now have a file that I can go save and put somewhere on my computer and name it and keep it or send it out to my students. I'm going to click the red X and not save this particular recording but it's as easy as doing that and some people ask why would I do that? Well you don't have to use it but it's just there it's an easier way it's a trimmed down version you don't have to go into iMovie and learn advanced controls you don't have to find a way to prop up your phone it's just already your camera is facing you your laptop is your stabilizer and it's just your tripod so you can just record a quick message. Hit file save. One thing that I will remind or recommend for all these QuickTime recordings is that you export them as the lowest quality possible just to compress it and make that file size smaller because just because we recorded it doesn't mean we don't have to then upload it somewhere and get it to our students and with our home internet and our limits on bandwidth a smaller file size will be easier to work with so I'll remind you that of again in a second another way to save on bandwidth is just do a audio recording instead of the video file new audio recording this is a great thing to start with it just gives you just an audio recorder you can click that that record button and just talk and just give an instructional message or just you know checking in with your students but it's just your voice when you hit stop you now have this untitled file it's 10 seconds long and you can go file save and name it and save it somewhere and then send it out to other people to hit play and just listen to you and that's a lot smaller file size the third option for using quick time is to do a screen recording so file new screen recording from the quick time menu lets you record your whole computer screen whatever's up on it so if you have a web app or a website like showing students around or showing them an informational article you want them to read whatever it might be on your screen you want to record it along with your voice like i am now so you get this toolbar to record with quick time and we are in the record the entire screen setting you could also switch it to a selected portion and you could just drag your mouse around part of your screen before you click the record though it's really important in quick time that you check your options and make sure that the microphone is on because the default is none it's just the screen but not your voice so you want to turn that on using the built-in or whatever device you want to capture your your voice and also I recommend that you click the option to show mouse clicks so when you're moving your mouse around on the recording the people that are viewing your video will actually see it and not just have to listen to what they click here and they don't know where here is so turn those two settings on or options on and then they'll be on every time you use quick time to do a screen recording so now it's ready for you just to click that record button and it's recording so I can move my webpage around I can navigate to something else on my machine and it's recording my voice as well as whatever people see on my computer screen now to stop this recording you'll look at the top of your screen for a little stop button it's black right now but my mouse is spinning around it and I'll click that and it'll pull up my recording as a finished video I can click play and you know and watch it here there we go it's actually playing the audio back in my headphones here I want to show you that it moves around here yeah so you can see my mouse moving around all right um remember we go file save and we name it and place it somewhere but also before you do that you might do export as and choose that lower quality file size and then export it to your desktop as a smaller size that's going to be easier to work with I'm gonna get out of this cancel this file and hopefully that gets you started with what's possible with quick time so this is how to use a keynote file in the built-in keynote app on your mac and record your voice along with it as you're recording to share with students you can see here I've opened up a ready-made powerpoint file that came with the textbook it's a science piece of content I'm going to go to play record slideshow this does it takes you into like a presenter mode and now I can I can see my audio it's picking it up with the microphone down here in the bottom corner and I can click that record button and it counts down for me three two one and now it's using my voice and the slides I'm just using my arrows to go through them like a teacher would like I am on my smart board in my classroom it's recording my voice and my slides even you know do some marking on top of them if if you want to and then I'll hit that stop button and get out of this presenter mode there we go and now what happens is keynote actually saves on each of these slides little audio files that go with them so if you as a teacher go to file and export to you can make it a movie file and this is one recording of all your slides and all your talking I would change that file size to a smaller resolution and then hit next and save it somewhere on your machine where you have control of it's now a movie file so when you send it out to your students all they have to do is is click play and watch it back or put it on wherever you're going to share it with them okay so how to get a a powerpoint into keynote you would just go to your finder wherever your files are I'm just going to search for a powerpoint that already is on my machine and here is a powerpoint file dot pptx I'm going to instead of double clicking on it to open it up I'm going to control click and choose open with and then I have that option to convert it into a keynote file instead of the default of opening it up with powerpoint and that again is so that I can go to that play menu and record slideshow and add my voice on top of it so some great options there if you don't already have powerpoint slides built for you just go to keynote and start a new blank presentation and then you can type some text on your screen and you can add pictures and if you don't want to show your face you can just record that through that play record slideshow menu and then export as a movie okay real simple now people have asked me how do I get my picture to show like a picture in picture so my students can see my slides and hear me teaching but they can also see my face in the corner and some teachers have come up with some great ways of doing that like opening up photobooth and kind of resizing your windows so you have the people can see both when you're recording with quick time um that's a great option but you might also consider just using zoom now zoom it's going to be our next option for recording lessons from home and i'm going to take you back to our welcome screen here um I want you to imagine that you're in a zoom room in your own zoom room just like I am now but you're in yours and nobody's in it you're just in it with yourself and you turn on your video like I did here so that you can you know see your face and the students will be able to see it and then you click record down here in your menu bar you're just going to basically record yourself in your own zoom meeting um then you're going to go to the share button that I have the red arrow pointing to on the screenshot and when you click that it'll bring up this menu and you would probably most of the time just click desktop one that's what I've done for you so you see everything on my computer desktop everything that I do and and show on my computer screen but you're also seeing that video of me in that inset window and because I clicked record before I began I can just go ahead and teach this lesson that way I then hit that stop record whenever I'm done and my video file from zoom is automatically saved in my documents part of my mac in a folder that zoom made called zoom you can see if I expand this folder here's all the recordings that I've done in zoom the last few days their date and time stamped automatically and I can go into one of those folders and you can see here we're a couple of times I tried doing a recording this is how it'll look after you first go visit that folder you'll have to double click to convert it and it'll ask you where do you want it that's final hit save okay here it is up here at the top um it like it fixed it it it basically got it ready so that other people could watch it as a video and this is the folder now it has the playback m3u we don't care about that the audio only file of my recording and then this is the video file zoom underscore zero for some reason I can rename that it's 29 kilobytes nothing big here but this wasn't the long one just to remind you we talked about quick time earlier I could do a control click and I could open this video file with quick time player all right I could open it up here I don't know what's in this recording there we go it's just a quick test but the reason why I might do that by the way I could just share this video file like it is now okay but I might open it with quick time to do that file export as and compress it to a smaller file size and quality play around with that because if if you try to upload something and it's going to take hours and hours and hours then this would be beneficial but if you don't need to export it as 480p you'll have a better quality recording if you don't I just wanted to show everybody that that's possible because we've been running into those issues with our home internet and it might be beneficial for you to know how to make it a smaller file to work with as well so zoom recordings even if students aren't in your zoom room live you can still use that as your own recording space and make those recordings that way while we're on the topic of zoom whether you're so you're recording something or you have students in their life the other way of sharing your content on your zoom meeting is this third one that we see here it's iphone or ipad via airplay and if you were to choose that option after you click share then your screen would look like this you would be able to make sure that both devices are on the same network and then on your ipad or your iphone you would go to the airplay like pull down and get your command center and go to screen mirroring and there would be an option that says zoom dash whatever in the name of your zoom account is and then you just mirror to that and so then in your zoom meeting in your room in the in the content that you're sharing on your screen you would see anything that you see on your ipad as opposed to your computer desktop so that's a really great option too especially if you're already comfortable teaching and manipulating an app on your ipad or your iphone you may as well record that screen and then use your picture and picture video within zoom so i'm going to stop my screen share now and i'm going to actually take you back to a video here whoops there we go and so you can see me and you can see my office here i was wanting to encourage everyone to start super simple okay so like if all of this already sounds too overwhelming or too techy using zoom using quick time using keynotes and exporting and things like that um don't don't worry you can just start with your phone right and just record a video of yourself i'm going to open up my phone here and go to the video camera and flip that phone around so that now it's recording front facing should record a video of myself molly has this genius tool she found at minards i always call it a chip clip but she assures me that it really is an iphone stand so you can just point your your camera at yourself there and just sit back in your chair and just talk into your phone and teach a lesson or um go ahead and you know pull up a an easel with a whiteboard on it and just pretend like you're teaching in your classroom and and record that way or if you don't have a holder you might use your um a homemade do-it-yourself document camera that i've kind of built here out of an ice cream bucket and then i just found a piece of wood so that my phone can hang out over the edge now instead of using the front facing camera here i would just use the regular video camera make sure it's hanging off the edge and then whatever is showing underneath of my um my phone screen there underneath of my do-it-yourself that makes so if you just have something that sets you know set your uh a little stand it doesn't have to be an ice cream bucket it could be a a box or anything that lifts it up a little bit and then something to make a ledge i just use these books to to weigh down the um or to keep it balanced so that the phone doesn't tumble up and then it's hanging out over the edge so i can do my workbook and just right here and it's just filling my hands and and my voice with the camera another option is over here this was something that was just released not too long ago at all it's using an osmo which a lot of elementary teachers already have and the osmo kits that came with them but um it really just only utilizes in this case the base so this base that comes with it that holds the ipad and then this camera this mirror that goes over the ipad camera and then one more thing you need is a free app from osmo called osmo projector and you can see i have it loaded right here what this does is it turns this mirror that goes up here on your camera into a reflector so that you can use it as a document camera so i can go to start here and now you can see how nice and clear that looks um on my ipad screen it's not filming me necessarily but it is filming what i ever i do on the paper and i can be talking and writing at the same time now my camera isn't super clear for you but if you recorded just your ipad screen here it would indeed be really clear and crystal and you wouldn't have to to worry about using the third party app necessarily if you're just recording your ipad screen all right you can also record your ipad screen and to do that you just want to go to your settings and set up in the control center so right underneath general here is control center and then come over into the control center settings and customize controls now the very first time you come here the screen recording won't be up in the top section it'll be down here under more controls so you'll just tap the plus next to it and it sends it up to the top like it was for mine now it will always be available in your control center and you won't have to come back to settings anymore so now when i pull down on my control center which is pulling down from the top right corner of your ipad or iphone screen like right where the battery and the the wi-fi is then you'll see this record button and if you press and hold whoops sorry press and hold do a long press on that circle that record button you would turn on your microphone first to make sure it's capturing your audio and then you just tap it and record okay it'll count down for you three two one and then whatever you do on your app whatever you pull up in your your notes app or using explain everything or any kind of an app that you would normally use on the ipad it's just recording your screen and your voice it's like quick time recorder on the mac it's the built-in screen recorder on the ipad and you'll just go find your stop button then on the top of your menu bar up again where your the battery symbol is you'll hit the stop and it'll go straight to your camera roll it'll be a recording in your photos when you're done so if you turn it on in settings first then you can access it with the control center and you can record your screen as another option for recording content and lessons from home so if you have an osmo check out the osmo projector app and just teach on paper that's fine too but make a video so that you can add your own personal voice to it and give additional instruction so i've recommended a couple of third-party apps here in section seven of my agenda here they aren't built-in apps but because of the time that we're in right now they have offers for free pro versions if you ever have used explain everything or edu creations in the past this is a really great opportunity to simply teach on your ipad screen and not have to record it with something else but just use the features within explain everything or edu creations or even seesaw to do so however if you've never used these apps before you don't need to go out and learn them but i did link to these three some additional features and resources to use them if you would like to create content that way within the app know if you do use seesaw to record your lessons right within app you can do videos just talk to your students and you can you know markup documents and things like that but there is a five-minute limit to record it within seesaw that's not to say that you can't record somewhere else and then send people a link through seesaw you can do that all you want doesn't have a limit there but if you're going to record right within seesaw there's that five-minute limit on video files and and a megabyte limit too but those are some options again just see what works for you and choose that that way to create your lessons and record them for your students that works best for you and for them let's talk now about digitizing documents because sometimes a video isn't necessary maybe we just want to get them access to a document a workbook page a text-based article pages out of a magazine whatever it might be and so we know we can take pictures of them but i'm going to recommend that if you have an ios device if you have an iphone or an ipad that you actually use the built-in scanner in the notes app and you'll get a better quality easier pdf to share with students that way so i'm going to demonstrate that now and to do that i'm going to share my screen again but i'm going to use that option i already talked about earlier that is um recording my or using airplay to connect to my phone and my ipad so you're not seeing this right now but i am going to the screen mirroring settings on my phone and going to zoom so now on your screen you see my phone actually instead of my computer screen and if i go home you'll see there's my home screen etc okay so you're seeing my phone through zoom now i want to show you how to digitize documents using the built-in scanner so here on my notes app if i do a long press i get these options you do need to make sure that your ios is updated this is a newer feature so if you do a long press a hard press on the notes app and you don't see scan document you'll want to update your phone but here you'll see it and so i can just tap scan document and then i can take my my physical document oh it seems a little delayed there we're going to be patient what's in notes there we go there's my workbook and it's just like i'm taking a picture you'll see how the whole page kind of turns yellow and i just capture it hit the button like i'm taking a picture of it now this one i have to adjust it didn't automatically grab the edges of the pages so i'm dragging those four little dots to tell it where the edges of the pages are and then i tap keep scan in the bottom right and it already goes and it gets me ready for the next page i'm going to flip the page position it in my viewer hit that scan button or that capture button like i'm taking a picture and this time it was a lot smarter and it found those four corners so i don't even need to adjust them i just click click keep scan and then it gets me ready to do another one ready for next scan i hit the button this one i got to adjust i'm not doing it as easily or as swiftly as i have in the past i'm going to click keep scan but i have now captured three separate workbook pages so you'll see on the bottom left of my iphone screen here if i tap on that it brings up the three pages that i've just scanned nice and clean and pretty bright it brightens them up automatically too you'll notice too that it's ready for me to use the the the share arrow there's a save button sorry in the bottom right then it brings up the three pages i can flip through them there and the share arrows on the top right and now i can send it out just like i would any file on my phone through airdrop through email through messages i can you know put it into google drive save it to files i could send it to seesaw whatever i normally would do with a pdf it's ready for me it's also automatically named you can see at the top there it scanned the content of those pages it must have been about solving and it gave me a file name a pdf name it's one document i don't have to merge all of the the pictures that i took and convert them to a pdf it's ready for me to go we'll talk more about how to to edit that how students can mark up the pdf or put their answers type their answers on a pdf when we talk in the future um especially with utilizing some google tools to be able to make this more editable or annotate on top of it um but for now i just wanted to show you it's it's a lot cleaner to capture a document um as a pdf using that built-in scanner as opposed to um going out and taking pictures or even trying to scan it with a document camera and snap images there because our phone cameras are so much better these days than um than our uh any other cameras they're just a lot higher quality another thing that we can do and i'm going to show you this one on my computer instead of my my phone screen we can do it either way but i'm going to share my computer screen again and i'm going to take you to safari and in safari there is um a couple of features that you would want to know how to utilize to digitize documents so this is a time for kids article about the coronavirus and using video streaming in it if i wanted to send that out to students for whatever purposes um the first thing that i would recommend you do is you click up here on the top of your url bar you see those little horizontal lines and that switches your article into reader view see how it eliminates all the ads and distractions well most of them anyway and it just keeps the important content in the text um that's really great to do before you make it a pdf so it's a lot cleaner and less paper if you would have to print it out and you can do that on the phone and the ipad as well just look for the reader view icon it might have an a a instead of the horizontal line but it's in the same place in safari on your iphone or ipad um even if you don't do that even if you don't do reader view we can now go and export this or save it as a pdf so the easiest way to make it a pdf is just perhaps to go file and export as pdf now it's going to take that cleaned up reader view of this article and make it into a pdf that i save on my desktop and then share okay back to our um our phone sharing okay so this is a really great feature of safari on the iphone or the ipad with the updated ios um we can go to an article online again reader view or not reader view matter there we go there's reader view now on my article here you see how it really cleans it up and it just focuses on the text um i'll go ahead and and take it out of reader view but like we would in the past take a screenshot we just do it the same we press and hold both buttons it captures it makes a screenshot then if i tap on the little icon or the thumbnail image of that screenshot it pulls it up into this new viewer where you'll see across the top i have screen is the default but over to the right there it says full page i'm going to tap on that because in the past when we took a screenshot it just gave us the first screen whatever we saw on the first screen and now when we go full page it actually takes all the scrollable content it's taking a little bit here to process and it puts it into one screenshot so that you can save it as a pdf you can actually mark it up too you can see across the bottom there are the annotation tools so i could highlight draw some arrows on this pdf before i send it out to students but in a second here when it finishes processing um normally it doesn't take that long either but i have my share arrow top right on this case there we go and i now have it as a pdf to send out so it just automatically is a pdf as a matter of fact if i hit done here my options are save as pdf save this as a pdf to my files or delete it so it's just it knows that you want to turn it into a pdf basically if you do that full page screenshot whether you mark it up or not just take the screenshot tap on the the thumbnail and then tap on full page and then you've got it ready to send out as a pdf i hope that made sense i really like to use that feature instead of in the past we had to do a lot of screenshotting and piecing together on an ios device remember on a mac we just went file and export as pdf so that's nice too so definitely more options than just taking pictures to scan things um look into those and again ask us later on if you have additional questions that weren't covered in this recording so we're going to switch now into some sharing recommendations this is really important we could have started with this but i'm going to reiterate it now um that we know that teaching these lessons and recording these lessons from home it's a multi-step process it is not as simple as just making the video as a matter of fact after we've made the video however we made it with everything we've talked about so far or made the pdf we still have to do two more things we've got to put that file somewhere we've got to upload it to some web space and then we got to tell people how to get to it share the link so we have some options on the left here of my handout of places that you could upload your recording to your digital content youtube is my first recommendation anyone with a school google account already has a youtube channel all you do is go to youtube.com you sign in to your school google account and then you find in the top right hand corner the place to upload a video you can upload a video and then you choose after it's done processing if you want that video to be public unlisted or private and i've gotten a lot of questions in the last few days from teachers who thought that their videos were private so hold on here know that private means private like it means nobody else can view it that's only just for you so it's just like private hidden storage you would want to instead if you don't want it to be public and open to everybody you would choose unlisted and unlisted means that people can't randomly come across it in youtube but anyone who has the link can view it if you send out the link to an unlisted video people can click on it and watch it but people aren't going to just search for it and find it in youtube so that's available to anybody now i know especially elementary teachers might be hesitant to put their content on youtube because of the fact that after students have finished watching your youtube video youtube might suggest other content that maybe isn't appropriate so that's the case or in order to be more more private than youtube even if it's unlisted on youtube you might consider uploading to google drive instead this is just your drive so you go to drive and you upload a file and you put your your video in there know though that just because you put it in google drive doesn't mean other people can see it you have to find the share options and change it so that anyone who has the link can actually see that content or view it again we'll help you with these things if they're the route you choose but just because you recorded the video we still have to find a place to store that video online in the cloud if you have access to canvas like a lot of our esu8 teachers do at the high school level you can go to a canvas post a page an assignment whatever it might be and you can upload or attach a video file to that as well you can also record right into canvas using your webcam which actually takes us to another option for this first part that we talked about um uh just know if you do that like if you go to a page or a post and you click insert video and record video with your webcam um there's not really a storage limit or a time limit but it will take a long time when you hit stop take a long time to upload in process and canvas doesn't really let you know that it's doing that so just be patient and trust it try it with a short video first um and then it will show up as inline or embedded media in the post which means kids don't have to go out to youtube to watch your video just right there in canvas which is really nice you could also upload to drop box drop box that's another third party um cloud storage app that a lot of people use that's that first part uploading it getting it somewhere online then we've got to take that link and share it with our students so seesaw definitely if you've got seesaw in place definitely a recommended tool especially for elementary age um you can send out that link as a parent announcement or put it right into your class feed and have students access it that way you could also put your link on google classroom you can even attach a video file right to google classroom and basically the difference there is if you go to a google classroom assignment and you attach a file instead of a link it'll actually upload your um video to your google drive change the sharing settings for you and then keep track of who you know for you as an assignment so it it streamlines that process and you don't you can do fewer clicks um if you use google classroom already canvas again we talked about that and that's a great communication channel to send out these links and ways to access the the teaching um resources you create for your students or it could just be email or it could just be text messages service like remind that sends notifications to phones as to where to go to get to the content you created so uh again you're not trying to be an expert in all of these but you're choosing carefully one way to record yourself teaching um and then where to store it online and then how to get that message out to your students of how to access it i saved the best for last because no matter what tools you choose it is really important just to keep these four simple principles in mind whatever you do in your instructional materials your enrichment your review videos you make keep it short take whatever you would normally do in the classroom and cut it down at least by a third um to a third cut down to cut out two thirds of it um keep it really simple decide the most important content don't try to teach everything you would teach in the classroom um it wouldn't be a good idea for you to lecture for 45 minutes in the classroom either we definitely don't want to have a 45 minute video that students have to watch we'll lose them on that so just pick out a couple of key concepts maybe just teach one important skill at a time um or maybe even just communicate a message and and leave um some of the other details into the text part of the worksheet or the post that you send out so that your video is really short and really simple and really focused do make it personal though there's so much educational content available online right now we've got Khan Academy videos we've got all kinds of places where the content's already created the videos are already created our students don't need more of that what they need is you so put yourself in it um make it specific to your classroom to your students to what they know from you already as their teacher um and don't try to make it perfect um it's it's really hard to let go of that fear of looking on being on camera and making mistakes we all go through that but now is not the time to have those fears we've all got to set that aside and be happy with the first take show our students our imperfections um and that's okay that's actually a great way to show your authentic self and encourage students to be willing to take some risks too so keep it short keep it simple make it personal and don't make it perfect and that's my advice to you no matter which of these tools you try and which of those ways you record your content from home and share it with remote teaching now before I close out this recording this video I'd like to show your attention or turn your attention to the very last page this is some bonus information that apple education has shared the last few days starting with a web page where they have they are collecting resources specific from apple education for example how to use the ipad to do a screen recording oh which I haven't shown so I need to definitely show you that or scan documents for example they'll do a better job of teaching that and right now there's only a couple of videos so there's this one and there's one about creating and sharing presentations and demos but coming soon there will be more for example how to create an engaging video with the clips app a really fun app if if you've ever tried it before if you just want to try something new to try to um relate to your students and just use that free ios app and record yourself in clips and then send it out so anyway bookmark this site and try it out so thank you a million for joining in tuning in to this recording I hope you got some ideas I'm sure more information will evolve as you guys share it with me about what works for you don't hesitate to reach out to us at esu8 at any time with any question big or small we're here to help you um and we're glad to partner with you to help you reach your students no matter where they are and no matter where you are good luck and take care and stay safe