[side conversation]

Anthony Burik: Hi, everyone. Welcome to Screencastify part 1 coming up shortly. So welcome to the webinar today.

Have a seat. If you're not already sitting, have a seat. Grab some water. Get your typing fingers ready here.

We'll give it a couple more seconds to let more people in the room. We do have many people signed up this afternoon for the session. But we're happy that you're here with us today. Again, Screencastify part 1, starting very shortly.

Yes, so again, we'll give it a couple of seconds. Make sure we get everybody, or most everybody, in the room. And how are we doing on the participants so far?

OK. All right, looks like it's slowing down on the participants coming into the room. So what we'll do is-- again, we're here for Screencastify part 1. And before Alisa starts with the presentation, we will do a little bit of housekeeping. I think probably many of you have been in the OTAN webinars before so you know what the drill is.

But for everyone new, we'll make sure that we cover the basics on the housekeeping, so everybody can follow along and participate in today's session. So Alisa, if you wouldn't mind us stopping your sharing. Thank you. I will switch over here and I will present this.

OK, so hopefully, everybody can see my screen. So before we start, we're just going to go over a few webinar tips for today's session. So in terms of the audio, all the attendees in the room are muted, except for the presenter Alisa and OTAN staff. So if you can't hear very well, if it's too loud or not loud enough, just make sure to adjust the volume on your system.

And you also want to make sure along the Zoom toolbar near the bottom there is an audio settings-- I was going to say dropdown, but it actually goes up. But anyway, it's a menu where you can make sure that you have the correct audio device selected. And again, if the volume is not quite right, go ahead and adjust the volume on your system.

All right, so folks-- and I've already seen it starting. So in terms of attendance and participation in today's webinar, please make sure you type your first and last name, and your full agency or district name-- no abbreviations please. And do so in the chat.

And I think for most of you, the chat will be over on the right-hand side. On the right-hand side, there is a participant list and a chat. So you want to make sure that you get your full name and your full agency or district name in the chat, please, for attendance purposes.

One thing about the chat is you also want to make sure who you're chatting to. So if you need some tech support, or if you just have a general comment for the room, go ahead and type that in the chat. But also make sure that you are chatting to the correct people. For tech support, you can just chat to the panelists, and we will try to help you out with your tech questions as best we can.

Otherwise, if you have questions for the presenter, for Alisa, as she's going through her presentation today, you want to put those in the Q&A. And the Q&A is accessible, again, from the Zoom toolbar, which you should see along the bottom of your Zoom screen. So go ahead and put those questions directly related to the presentation in the Q&A.

OK, and if you are interested in resizing your window, you may want to-- well, we'll get to that in a second. But to exit full screen, you should look, I believe, near the top of your screen. You should see like a green toolbar.

And then to the right of that is a dropdown menu, View options. And from there, you can exit full screen. If you're also having trouble seeing the slides, you might consider actually increasing the percentage, so you can get a better view of any slides that you're having trouble with.

If you do want to follow along with the presenter today-- and I know a lot of you are probably very interested in figuring out how to get started with a Screencastify, you may want to consider basically having two windows open. So one window will be the Zoom window, and then the second window will be your browser window. So if you have Chrome open or Safari or Firefox, Internet Explorer.

So what you want to do is you want to exit full screen, which we just showed you how to do. And then you want to resize both of the windows. So basically, you'll have half the size of the Zoom and half the size of your browser.

And the way you do that is you want to look down at the corner of one of the windows and a new, like, Resize icon will appear. And that way, you can increase or decrease the size of the window. And that way, you might be able to set them up side by side. So you can watch Alisa's presentation with her slides, and then you can also be practicing along in a browser window as well.

OK, so again, just a quick recap. Again, you control your own audio. So if it's too loud or not loud enough, go ahead and adjust the volume on your system. Make sure you have the correct audio device connected so you can hear.

If you do want to add your name and agency for attendance purposes in the chat, it's going to be off on the right-hand side. And any general comments for the room can also go in the chat. If you do have questions about the presentation, though, please put those in the Q&A. Again, the Q&A is accessible from the Zoom toolbar, which you should see along the bottom of your screen.

To exit full screen, look up near the top of your Zoom window you should see a green toolbar, and then to the right of that View options dropdown. So just go ahead and open that up and then you click on Exit Full Screen. And then again, if you want to resize both your windows so that they're side-by-side, so you can follow the presenter and also work in a browser window, you want to just look at one of the corners of the Zoom window, one of the corners of your browser window. And then go ahead-- when the Resize icon appears, you want to just go ahead and pull your window to adjust to the correct size that you would like.

OK, we are recording this webinar. And as many of you know, we do make the recording, or we're trying to make the recordings and the materials related to the recordings available as quickly as possible. We post those on the OTAN website.

Our website is otan.us. And on that page, we do have a button which will lead you to the COVID-19 field support And that's where recordings and materials are currently stored.

With that, I will stop sharing screen. And I'm going to go ahead and turn it over to our presenter, Alisa, Screencastify part 1. Alisa, take it away.

Alisa Takeuchi: Thank you so much, Anthony. Please, for all of you guys out there, thank you, thank you, thank you so much for coming to this session. I'm super-excited to be doing this with you. This is a new session for me, so I'm hoping that my timing will be just about right with this session.

Quick shoutout to my Garden Grove people. I see a lot of you out there. So thank you for coming to the session. I'm getting a little bit nervous now. I'm going to share my screen.

All right, if at any time you need me to slow down or repeat something, please put it in the chat. If you have a question, please put it in the Q&A, and we'll try to get it answered as quickly as possible. I do have some break slides in there, too, so that we can catch up on some questions if need be.

So like Anthony said, this is Screencastify part 1. There will be a part 2 tomorrow. Today's session is really, really basic.

And I know everybody says that, and it's not, and things. But I'm truly thinking that this is going to be the basics. And so if you're already using Screencastify, it's going to be a review and it might be a little slow.

But hopefully, you'll still learn something new maybe that you didn't know before. For those of you that really don't know anything about Screencastify, or are somewhat familiar with it, we're going to go through on how to install it, and then what you can do with it and how to actually make a screencast. So you'll also hear me say-- I use Screencastify as a verb now. I've verbalized it.

And so I say I'll say, like, oh, we're going to be Screencastify, which is actually not the way you're supposed to say it. It's just a Screencast. So forgive me if I do that. It's just a bad habit.

So for today's agenda, I'll go through the introduction real quick. We'll talk about what Screencastify is, where is it, how can I use it. And then finally, I'm going to give you a homework assignment. Dun-dun-dun.

So after the session sometime tonight, if you'd like, I'd really like you to go ahead and do the homework, which is to create a Screencastify. And then tomorrow, when we come back, if you're not crying too badly, then we'll go ahead and discuss about now what to do with this and more features, and how to share and things like that. So tomorrow will be a little bit more advanced, once you get to know how to use Screencastify. And then you'll practice on your own time.

All right, so here's the introduction. My name is Alisa Takeuchi. I currently work at Garden Grove at Lincoln Education Center in Southern California.

I have been working OTAN as a subject matter expert for about three years. And as of about five weeks ago, I have been a remote teacher in Sacramento. So I've been up in Sacramento since pretty much the beginning of our isolation. I teach beginning literacy in both the morning and at night.

A couple of disclaimers. Screencastify is not compatible with mobile devices. So you can watch YouTube videos. You can watch videos on your phone. But you can't create anything from your phone or your iPad.

So just keep that in mind. And then you also need to have a Google account. Because Screencastify is an extension-- it is a Google extension, it works with Google. So if you have a Gmail a GSuites, then you're good to go.

So we're going to take a poll real quick. I'm going to give it about 30 seconds. And hopefully, most of you can go ahead and put your input.

If not, I just want to get an idea of what's going on in the room. So if Marjorie can put up the poll. Excellent, so if you can answer how much do you know about Screencastify. I'm curious if anybody is going to choose the fourth option. There should be laughter in the audience.

We'll give it about 15 more seconds. I can't see the results yet. So I don't even know what they are.

And how about five, four, three, two, one. Go ahead and close out that poll. And then let's go ahead and share what the results were.

All right, I know it and I use it a lot. OK. I know it, but I don't use it. OK.

I've heard of it, but don't know it. OK. I've never heard of it, but I just go to all of Alisa's presentations. Aw, 31 of you. Oh, thank you so much.

Great, well, it's good to know that the majority of you have heard of it, but you really just don't know much about it. So that's going to be great. For those of you in the top two that do know it and you use it, in the very top part, again this will probably be a little bit easy for you because you already know what's going on. But hopefully, you'll learn something today. Great, I'm going to close this out.

All right, so with Screencastify, you'll need to be familiar with and comfortable with working with multiple tabs sometimes. It depends on what kind of screencast you're going to be doing. But if you're going to be showing your students how to get to some place or how to use a certain website, you're going to need to know how to work with multiple tabs. So I've created a screencast of how to work with multiple tabs. And I'm going to show that to you right now.

ALISA TAKEUCHI (ON VIDEO): An important skill to have when using Screencastify is the ability to toggle between multiple tabs at the top of your screen. This will be important because you want to organize your tabs in an order that's efficient for you so that your Screencastify goes more smoothly. Now, as you can see, I have multiple tabs at the top of my screen. This is what's called tab hoarding.

Now, I'm hoping-- no wait. I know that I am not the only one that does this. So even though I have plenty of tabs open, I'd like to organize them, so again, I can use it more efficiently.

So as you can see here, I have my work email, I have a Gmail, and I have another Gmail over here. And I would like them all together. So I'm going to click on my Gmail, and I'm going to physically drag it over to where I'd like it to go and let go. So now I have my work email, a Gmail, and another Gmail here.

So again, I'd like my Google slides next to each other. So I'm going to click, drag, and let go. One more time with my Screencastify, I'm going to move my Screencastify so that they're all next to each other. And now, as you can see, I have a pretty organized order of my tabs at the top of the screen.

Now, let's say for some reason I'd like to move my Gmail to the end. So I'm clicking and I'm [audio out] And then I don't know what to do. And I let go, and oh my gosh, where did all my tabs go? I've lost all my tabs.

Don't worry. They're still there. If I move this tab right here, if I drag it down and I let go, there are all my tabs. The tab that's been moved has just been layered on top. So don't worry.

You can do two things. You can exit and get rid of the tab itself. Or if you want to put it back, click on the tab.

Don't click in the middle, click on the tab. Put it back into line. And then manipulate it to wherever you'd like it to go.

So let's try that one more time. I have my Screencastify. I'm going to move this back. I'm going to move this back. I look, and oh, and now it's gone.

So all you need to do is click on the tab itself, move it. And look, it's right back in the line of tabs. And I can let go and put it right back. You haven't lost anything. So that's how you go ahead and manipulate between tabs.

And again, this will be important for your Screencastify. So let's go ahead and practice. If you're on Zoom right now, you may have to exit full screen. And you might have some tabs behind it.

If you don't, you might want to open some tabs up, and then just practice toggling back and forth, you know. and drop them where you'd like them to go. Or even practice moving it, and then read putting it on the tab line. So I'm going to give you one minute to practice that. And then we'll come back.

Alisa Takeuchi: OK, so just like the video said, we're going to give you, like, a minute or so to practice between toggling back and forth between tabs. So if you're having any trouble, or if you're just not going to do it right now, that's OK. Come back to this later on and practice when you're at home. I mean, sorry, after the session. Do we have any questions or comments in the chat?

Anthony Burik: Alisa, just a couple of questions.

Alisa Takeuchi: Sure.

Anthony Burik: In the very, very beginning, you mentioned that Screencastify is not compatible with smartphones. So can you clarify, do you mean creating Screencastifies, viewing Screencastifies? So what exactly is that not compatible part.

Alisa Takeuchi: Great question, yeah. You cannot create a Screencastify from your phone. When you try to go and upload the app, it will say it's for desktop only. But to create a video, it is it's like a YouTube video. So if you can view YouTube videos or videos on your phone, then you can watch a Screencastify.

Anthony Burik: OK, so just to be clear, so you can view the Screencastify videos from a mobile device.

Alisa Takeuchi: Correct.

Anthony Burik: OK, thank you. OK, I think we're good.

Alisa Takeuchi: Oh, great. And then are there any comments about whether people are doing OK with the moving of the tabs?

Anthony Burik: Oh, everybody said that they love you, Alisa, but I don't know about the tabs.

[laughs]

Alisa Takeuchi: Well, thank you for coming to my session. The end.

Anthony Burik: So there is a question.

Alisa Takeuchi: Sure.

Anthony Burik: When I tried to practice tabs, I lost my entire Zoom screen.

Alisa Takeuchi: OK, so what you might want to do is look at the bottom of your screen, the bottom of your monitor, and you should see some icons at the bottom. And fingers crossed, I'm hoping you'll see one that looks like a camcorder, like a video, and that will be Zoom. And then if you click on that, Zoom will pop up, fingers crossed.

Anthony Burik: OK, and Alisa, would you be able to-- I'm just looking at a few things. So folks, just remember, if you do have a question about anything, please make sure that ends up in the Q&A. It's a little hard to go between the Q&A and chat if people have questions. So Alisa, would it be possible to do a demo on your computer with tabs, just to show people?

Alisa Takeuchi: Yeah, let me go ahead. And I will stop sharing. And then I will-- wait, is that right? No, that's not right. I need to share my screen still, right?

Anthony Burik: Yeah, you can share your desktop. You just wanna....

Alisa Takeuchi: OK, let me share my screen again. All right, and I need to get out of my presentation. OK, so as you can see, I have one, two, three, four, five six tabs open. And one of them is the presentation, and two of them are Gmails and Zoom.

And what I want to do is I want to move my Gmails over. So I'm going to click on my Gmail, and I'm going to physically hold and drag and move it. And now I have a Gmail here and Gmail here.

If I want to move my Zoom out of the way, I'm going to click and drag it. And I'm going to move it to the end, wherever I need it to be. So it opens that tab as well. So as soon as you click on that tab, it opens that tab. And then I can go back to my presentation.

Now, I think what somebody was saying was, when they did that, they lost their Zoom. And down here at the bottom, if you can see-- I have some icons down here at the bottom. You'll see that I have one that looks like a camera. And that would be my Zoom.

So I hope that helped a little bit. If not, we can go back through that again. There's going to be a time a little later that we're going to practice that.

Anthony Burik: OK, Alisa, yeah, I think that was very helpful. Thanks.

Alisa Takeuchi: Great. Thanks for the suggestion. OK, let me go back to presenting. All right, so we talked about this. So now for this session, or in any session-- because I've been to so many of them, just like you. We had a staff meeting last week.

And I was telling our director, like, it's so funny, because I go to these sessions and I see the participants. And it's like this cult. It's an OTAN cult that we all follow all the sessions, and we see the same names over and over again because we're just so hungry to learn new things. And so with that, it's interesting to see the same names over and over again, because we're all learning. And what happens is that sometimes, we go down the rabbit hole because we learn something.

But in order to use it or to utilize it, or to make it better, you need to know something else. So now I have to learn how to use that. So with Screencastify, it's the same way.

It's like Screencastify, you can use it all on its own, as long as you know how to email and copy a link. No problem. But it's also extremely useful if you have a classroom, a Google Classroom.

And now you're like, oh, that sounds so interesting. But how do I get a Google Classroom? So that's another session you'd have to go to. And then you can also upload it to your YouTube channel.

And you're like, oh, I would love my students to watch my videos on a YouTube channel. But how do I get to a YouTube channel? So again, it's like one after the other after the other.

And so as we're going through this, start thinking about how you would like to use Screencastify, and if there are other tools that you'll need to know in order to use it. But again, as long as you can record a video and share a link in an email, or remind or something, it's as easy as that. Don't worry.

ALISA TAKEUCHI (ON VIDEO): An important skill to have when using Screen--

Alisa Takeuchi: All right, so all these presentations, what I was starting to say was, as we're going through these, if you feel comfortable enough to multitask and work at the same time-- so as the presenter is talking and giving an instruction, you can work and do it at the same time, feel free to do it. Because that way, you're right there. You're doing it at the same time.

But it can get a little hectic, because if we're going a little too fast and you're left behind, and things like that. So the ideal situation is to have maybe a computer or a laptop, and then a monitor-- an external monitor. It's not two computers. It's one computer and then an external monitor, so that whatever is on this computer can also be viewed on another computer.

So you could take one of those tabs and you can move it to another computer. So if you have that, you already know this. If you don't have an external monitor, don't stress out, because that's something else beyond-- a little bit more advanced.

The other thing is to have two computers. So for me, I have a laptop and I have a Chromebook. So I have two separate computers, so I can watch the Zoom on one and I can practice whatever they're doing on another. They are two completely different computers. So I would just have Zoom on one, and whatever I'm practicing on the other

The other thing would be the phone and the computer. So now, like I said, so Screencastify. You can't do this on your phone. So you would need to watch the Zoom on your phone. Or if you're already doing that-- if you're watching this presentation on your phone, if you have a laptop or a computer, you can open it and practice what we're doing off to the side.

So you watch on your phone, and then you practice on another computer. That's another option, or you can do what Anthony was talking about earlier, where you have one computer. Like, Alisa, I just have one computer, that's it. No problem. Then what you can do is you can have two screens on at the same time.

So remember how we manipulated those tabs? You can go ahead and manipulate a tab, and then actually move it over. So you have the Zoom on one side, and then practice on the other side.

So I'm going to exit this presentation. I'm going to show you what that looks like. So let me exit

OK, so here, I have my Screencastify, my presentation. That would be your Zoom. And I'm moving it off the trail of tabs and it's its own separate entity. Remember, we talked about that?

So there's a couple of different ways. I know Anthony does it a particular way. This seems easiest for me, but I take it off of Maximize.

And then I go to my corners, and I can resize my screen. So I still have my presentation here. I have my tabs up here. I can move this. I can make it bigger, so it's about half my screen.

Now I want to practice what Alisa is saying. So you're going to make a new tab-- a brand-new tab. Pull it off.

Sorry, my computer is going a little slow. Exit Maximize. And you can resize this one, too.

All right, so now-- oh my god, what happened? Alisa, I lost the presentation? Where did it go?

Here are my tabs. Here's my new tab. What happened to that presentation?

It's down here. You have a whole other toolbar down here. Down at the very bottom of your screen, you have a whole other toolbar that you can choose from. And here it is. I pulled that off.

So if you've lost your tab, if you've lost anything, it's not gone forever. Unless you've actually exited out of it, it's probably going to be somewhere up at the tabs of the top or somewhere down here at the bottom. So as long as you didn't actually exit out, but it's hidden somewhere, it's there somewhere.

So now I have two screens. I have Alisa's zoom presentation on one. And now I can practice whatever she's talking about here. So Anthony, do you see if we need to repeat that or give it a minute or so?

Anthony Burik: I don't see any comments yet. So--

Alisa Takeuchi: Let me give it a moment. Let me give you a minute just to figure it out and absorb. OK, and this is only if you want to, you guys. You don't need to. You're more than welcome just to sit back, relax, and just watch.

It's not a problem. Everything we're doing here, you can just watch. And then later on, I'm going to give you the copy of this presentation. And then you can go back through.

And I have a couple of slides that are cheat sheets. You can take a photo of them, and you'll see what it is. And when you go after this presentation, when you're calm again, then you can go to your computer and do it on your own time. No problem. This isn't a you must do it at the same time type deal.

Anthony Burik: Alisa, actually, now we have a couple of requests. Maybe you could just show how to split the screen in two again.

Alisa Takeuchi: OK, yes, I'm going to exit. So I'm exiting. And this is my way of doing it. And I think, Anthony, you might have a different way of doing it. And it all works. As long as it works.

So I'm going to exit out. I'm going to go back to where I was. So this was-- OK, so this is my presentation. It's within my tabs.

This is normal. This is how it is when you open up a thing. I want to split my screen so that I see the Zoom, and I can make a practice at the same time. So for you, you're going to find your tab that has the Zoom presentation, this right here, and pull it off.

If it turns full screen, that's OK. Make it less than full screen. Grab the corner. Make sure-- see how you're close to that x? You might want to do a different corner if you're a little bit worried, as long as you have those arrows that are pointing diagonally.

If you're a little bit worried about getting too close to that x, then go to another corner. Any corner works, any corner works. And you can resize it any way you like.

Now, I have the presentation. I have the Zoom on one side. And now I need another one to practice with.

So I'm going to open up a new tab. Pull it off. Pull it off my main tab line. Exit full screen and resize it.

OK, so what happens, though, is when I do that, my Zoom went away. Oh my god, Alisa. My Zoom is gone.

I don't know where my Zoom is. I see Zoom up here. That's not it.

I want to come down here-- down to the bottom of the tray. You're going to probably look for Zoom like this. But I have to look for my presentation.

So here. So look for your Zoom, and then it should come up. And then you'll have two screens. And you can manipulate the size, however big or small you want it. So play around with that as you're going through your screens.

And if it's too much-- now look, I have all this back here. I've got my two screens up here. If it's too much, you can always minimize this. Minimize here.

It's going down. It went down to the bottom of my tray. And now I have just my desktop. So it's not so, so much.

And then I have my two slides. I have my side-to-side again. If you're in your house right now, or wherever you're at watching this, and you're trying to do it and your crying, don't worry about it. Just stop.

You can just watch the presentation. It is not a problem for you just to watch if it's just too much for you to handle. It's not a problem at all.

All right, how are we doing? Have we lost anybody? Am I down to 10 people no.

Anthony Burik: Alisa, I'm wiping away the last of my tears. But I think we're good to continue.

Alisa Takeuchi: Yeah, if I make OTAN people cry, then please. Everybody else, I apologize.

[laughs]

And hopefully at the end of this, too, we'll have some time to practice. Like, I said I don't know exactly the timing of this presentation. But hopefully, if there's extra time at the end, then we can go ahead and practice. All right.

Anthony Burik: Alisa

Alisa Takeuchi: Yes.

Anthony Burik: Sorry. We should clarify, because I think this question came up, or a few folks had the question. So it does depend on-- you were talking about minimizing the window. So again, it does depend on whether you're on a Windows machine or a Mac, right?

So the Windows machine that Alisa just showed us, Minimize will be in the upper right corner. Mac users, Minimize is in the upper left corner. So if you're not seeing it on the right, it may be because you're on a Mac, and it's actually over on the left.

Alisa Takeuchi: And I think on Macs, they're circles, not squares? Yeah, I don't use Mac. So like things like that, thank you so much for saying it, because it doesn't even come into my brain because I don't use Macs at all. So thank you for that.

All right, so we're going to take another poll, if you're still hanging in there with me. If Marjorie can pull up that poll for me, we're going to see how you are going to be utilizing this presentation. How will you be involved?

And I'll give you guys a minute. I just want a gauge and see where we're at as far as who's using what. Maybe 10 more seconds. OK, let's go ahead and see the results-- see where are we at.

All right, so 13 of you have the external monitor. Great. I'm sure you're probably familiar with throwing one of those tabs into your other external monitor. That way, you can work side by side.

Two computers, great. So we've got a little gamut of everything. So side-by-side-- hopefully, the side-by-side people, you were OK getting side-by-side.

And for those of you that are just watching, great. Not a problem. Just go ahead and sit back, relax, and just absorb the information. All right, let me close that up.

All right, so now let's go ahead and talk about what is it. What is Screencastify? And what I did up here at the top is I-- here's that verb again. I Screencastified a video about Screencastify.

And it is a freemium. It is free. There is a basic edition, and it's free. And what they've just done recently-- I think it was February 4 or something, they extended what their free products were. So a lot of the stuff that was for pay is actually free now, and so that's pretty great.

The only thing is that-- you have unlimited amount of videos that you can make, which was not the case before. And the only thing is that the videos have to be less than five minutes, which is fine. It depends on, I guess, what you're going to screencast.

But I have found that the shorter the videos, the better, especially if you're using them with students. You need to make videos that are very short. One to two minutes, maybe three minutes, again depending on what it is that you're trying to show them or demonstrate or teach. Because we've been there before, where we've tried to watch a video and it's-- especially an instruction video and it's super-long and your attention span starts wavering, especially now that we're at home. So that's fine.

So you can get a premium, and they've lowered-- so for educators, it's $29 a year. For everybody else that's not an educator, it's $49 a year. So that's a pretty big discount for educators.

And the bonuses for that is that there's more tools that you can use. The tools that you get for free, great. That's all I use. I don't have a paid subscription, and I'm fine with that. Maybe later on, I'll splurge on the $30 and see what else I can do.

But the other thing is that you have unlimited time. You're not required to stay at five minutes. You can make a video that's 10 minutes or 15 minutes or longer if you want.

So those are the benefits of having the premium. But again, I only use the free version, and I've loved it so far. So I'm going to show you the video real quick of the introduction to Screencastify.

Voiceover: Not too long ago, the average classroom had one instructor teaching at one pace in one style to many different students. Now that's starting to change. Thanks to increased access to technology, like Chromebooks and Google Apps for Education, educators are empowered to teach in more flexible ways that fit the needs of all their students.

But as much as these tools have reshaped learning, they can't replace the most important part of teaching-- the teacher. Screencastify allows teachers to make sure that learning is personal and human in a digital classroom, whether it's recording instructional videos to meet the varied needs of students, delivering a richer feedback, or allowing students to demonstrate learning in new ways. There's no limit to what you can accomplish with Screencastify.

Alisa Takeuchi: So again, this was coming from a K through 12 kind of commercial. But again, Screencastify isn't just let me show you how to do something. It's not always just tutorials. You can use Screencastify to give video feedback, or you can have your students-- if your students are using Google, then they can give video feedback, whether they liked your lesson or I have a question or something.

So instead of just typing it out, and/or if they want to practice speaking or having a conversation, they can actually make Screencastify themselves and give it back to you. So how cool is that? Like if you have some sort of assignment and there were some mistakes, and maybe they tend to make the same mistakes over and over again, and you made a little video for them, that's personal.

"Hey, Van, great sentence. Don't forget the 'S', you know, on the verb when you write your sentence. Don't forget the period at the end." And then you're actually giving them feedback, and they're seeing your face and seeing it as if they were in the classroom. So things like that, that's what so great about Screencastify.

So in the chat, I'm going to give you guys about a minute. I want you to write in the chat-- not the Q&A, in the chat, how would you like to use screen cast if I with your students and/your colleagues. So go ahead and type what do you think. What do you think you would like to use it for? Now that you kinda have an idea of what it's about, how would you like to use it?

Anthony Burik: Now, Alisa, while folks are working on that, I just want to remind people again, if you do have questions for Alisa or the presentation, please put them in the Q&A. We aren't-- if people are raising their hands or if they hit that Raise Hand icon, we don't acknowledge that, basically. So make sure to put your question in the Q&A. Or if you need tech support or other support, just go ahead and put that in the chat.

Alisa Takeuchi: Great, yeah. Thank you. So I'm looking at the chat, and oh my gosh, this is amazing. Some of your ideas-- some of you still don't have a clue.

That's OK. No problem. You're still just absorbing the whole what is Screencastify. I'm not quite sure yet.

But some of you are saying that you would like to use them for reading books. That would be great. Yeah, you have an online little book club or an online story time.

Vocabulary lessons-- that's what I did in mine. I had a listening test. And I recorded myself as if I was giving the spelling test. And then they watched it as a YouTube video, and they took the test on a piece of paper.

Distance learning, a lot of how to's. So if you're still having difficulty, or your challenge is getting your students on Zoom, you could make an instructional video on how students can join Zoom. The hard thing with these conferencing rooms-- Zoom or Google Meet or Google Hangouts, it's that there's so many different devices that there's so many different ways that troubleshooting can go awry. And that's really tough.

Yeah, a lot of you are slideshows. We're going to talk about that tomorrow. So tomorrow, we're going to learn-- today is all about just how do I make a screencast, how do I use Screencastify. And then tomorrow is what do I do with it now.

So if you can get past today's, where you feel comfortable about actually creating a screencast, then tomorrow is where all that magic happens. All right, that's great. Thank you so much, you guys, for your input, your answers.

Anthony Burik: Alisa.

Alisa Takeuchi: Yes.

Anthony Burik: Before you continue, can we circle back just a couple of questions again about the pricing that you talked about?

Alisa Takeuchi: OK.

Anthony Burik: So what about students using Screencastify? Would they be able to sign up for a free account as well?

Alisa Takeuchi: Yes, students can sign up for a free account, just like you do. The process is still the same. And I can show you that later too.

The process is still the same, except there's a screen that will come up and it'll say-- it doesn't say it like this, but it'll say, like, what are you? And then it says like educator, student, businessperson. It gives you some options. They would just choose student.

Now, it doesn't really matter. I mean, they could say educator. You could say student. But what happens is that any kind of new information that relates to that particular topic that you chose, we'll get to you.

So if you chose educator, if they have new developments that they think would be beneficial for educators, they'll send it to you. But if you chose student, then maybe they'll say, hey, maybe they'll give some little emails or something about student use. So that's the only reason.

But, I mean, anybody could choose anything. As far as the pricing goes, the $29, I haven't done it yet. So I don't know. But I assume that when you sign up for an account, if you select that you're an educator.

And then I'm not sure how they verify it-- if you have to verify it somehow. Maybe with your school email address or something like that. That's how they can tell whether or not that you should get the $29 price or the $49 price.

Anthony Burik: Yeah, we did have a question from somebody who works at a library, not a school setting. But it sounds like they probably could still sign up as an educator and get those benefits.

Alisa Takeuchi: Yeah, sure. With the free account, you can sign up as anybody you want. Yeah. The only reason why they would ask you is to vet you into what kind of services of emails they can send you to help you with that particular field.

So yeah, if you work in the library-- anybody can choose educator. It's a free account. It doesn't matter.

But if you want the $29 discount, then you're probably going to have to prove that you're an educator in some capacity. Even if you work in the library, I'm sure you could probably just let them know that you're in education, and they would probably still give you-- I can't imagine that they wouldn't. But I don't know for sure.

Anthony Burik: OK, great.

Alisa Takeuchi: Anything else.

Anthony Burik: We have some other questions, but let's see what the next part of your presentation is.

Alisa Takeuchi: OK, great. Has there been any comments about, oh my gosh, you're going too fast, or she's da da da pacing?

Anthony Burik: I think the pacing is OK.

Alisa Takeuchi: All right. Just let me know, guys, if you think that I'm going too fast. All right, so where is it? So the easiest thing to do is just to go to screencastify.com. So this is where the split screen comes in.

If you're working with another computer, if you're working with an external monitor, if you're working with side-by-side views, if you want to go to screencastify.com, you should see this homepage. And as we're doing these steps, I'll give you just a few seconds to see. Now, I already had this installed when I took this screenshot.

So of course, mine says already installed. But yours should say something about install or get it or go to. So Screencastify.com.

Now, I made a cheat sheet for you. So those of you that are just watching, or if you're trying to, you can take a picture of this screen right now. And this is the step-by-step process of how to open your account.

I went through and I opened a new account. And every step I took, I made sure that I documented it. And I have pictures. We'll go through it also, but this is just like the cheat sheet.

So if you would like to do this later on, you don't have to go through all of the slides again. You could just use this. Or have it on your phone and have your phone next to your computer, and then work on your computer.

Anthony Burik: So Alisa, are you going to address the Chrome issue? Because some people are saying that it says to add it in Chrome.

Alisa Takeuchi: Yes, so like we were talking about, you need to have a Google account. So at some point, you will have to sign into your Google account. Now, it's in step number four.

So if you don't have a Google account, whether it's a Gmail account or your .edu or .net, your school GSuite account, then to use Screencastify, you're going to have to open one. All right, so did everybody take a picture of this that wants to take a picture of it? I'm going to change slides in five four, three,

Anthony Burik: So Alisa?

Alisa Takeuchi: Yes.

Anthony Burik: So can we-- let's be clear again. So if I have a Google account, can I open my Google account in any browser? So on Firefox, can I be on my Google account to do this, or does it need to be Chrome and Google account?

Alisa Takeuchi: That's a good question because I only use chrome. So I don't want to say for sure. But if you're on Firefox or such, yeah, I would open up-- my understanding is that if you open up Gmail, your Chrome account opens at the same time.

Now, I don't know if that's true or not in Firefox. So I would follow the prompts. If you're in Firefox, then go to screencast-- it's pretty user-friendly. If you go to screencastify.com and you try to add to Chrome, it'll tell you whether or not you need to sign into your Chrome account or not. And if it does, do it. And if it doesn't, just keep following the steps until it says sign into your Google account, which means sign into your Gmail.