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Good morning and Happy Homecoming Week! As always, I hope your week has started off right.

This week, I wanted to highlight another video-based tool that is in your arsenal: Screencastify. Many of you likely have some familiarity with Screencastify, as it was one of the platforms that was widely used by teachers to survive remote learning over the last 18 months.  But as we drift back closer to whatever version of "normal" we are headed for, I wanted to emphasize that a tool like Screencastify has a lot of potential beyond the pandemic, and can be utilized in some game-changing ways for both teachers and students, for almost any content area or age group.

Quickly for our new teachers and those who just aren't familiar.. Screencastify is a Chrome extension that allows you to quickly and easily record your screen, yourself, or a combination of the two, and narrate throughout the recording. It also allows you to trim, edit, and make annotations on your video. All of this is done from your chrome browser, it's all saved to your Google Drive (including any edits you make in the future), and it makes sharing extremely easy when you're ready.

So, now that our teachers are back face to face with the majority of students on a day-to-day basis, what role does Screencastify have to play?  Teachers can look at this tool as something that can make their lives easier and help them support their students. But it can also be a powerful tool for student creation:

Recording lessons and lectures is still a beneficial practice... Once you've recorded them they can often be re-used (at least for a while). These recordings can be utilized for students who are absent, if a teacher decides to "flip" a lesson or a unit, or in a variety of different scenarios when a teacher needs to make up some time (snow days, teacher illness, etc.).

Teachers can also utilize recordings to support their students... directions via a narrated video are oftentimes easier on both the student and the teacher than written directions, and can be less time consuming than going back and forth trying to explain something through email.  It's especially helpful in walking kids through how you want them to complete an online activity, create an account, on a platform outside Schoology, etc. This comes in handy when a student is out, but it might be even more handy when the teacher isn't present.

One of the biggest benefits of this tool being so simple and accessible is that it's really easy to get students up and running with it so that they can create their own content. There are certainly other tools out there with similar functionality to Screencastify (and if you're already comfortable with one, that's great!), but if you're looking for something to use with your students, you're not likely to find anything that's more headache free when it comes to setting your students up and teaching them how to use it.  And the fact that we have a district license means you and your students have less hoops to jump through and no worries about whether you have any limits on functionality.

Purifiers, fiber-optics lines and masks. Welcome back to school!

I was as excited to be back in school as students were, last week. Online, of course. There’s something about a new school year that lifts our spirits, and simultaneously releases those abdominal butterflies. As I stepped out the car in park, strapped on my mask, and grabbed my satchel, I could feel this new normal creep up on me, and broke out into a grin – which no one notices now.

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Screencastify for Authors. Videos that are easy to make and easy to share.

In the spirit of social distancing, I give you “How To Use Screencastify” for Authors. Screencastify is a simple way that you can make a video and post it directly to YouTube. They are easy to make, and easy to share.

STEP 1 – How to Get Screencastify

Easiest thing to do is add Screencastifyas an extension to your Chrome browser. Sign in using your google account, and then all of you videos…