Hey reader leaders! I am busy building my presentations for #TALE2018 for the Texas Association of Literacy Educators this weekend and was adding in a small tutorial on Screencastify. This Google Chrome extension is the perfect add-on for communicating information to your teams, teachers, parents, and students. I know once you use it a bit you'll even be thinking of how to incorporate it into your daily personal life.
This tool is a screen and voice recorder. You simply click the extension, begin recording, and can review anything on your screen. It instantly saves to your Google Drive from there in its own folder.
Here are just a few ways I plan to use it this year:
- Review instructional specialist updates with my leadership team and grade level teams
- Review updated digital data walls
- Review data before coaching conversations in person
- Coaching teachers on effective guided reading or mini-lesson videos (I can pause model lesson videos and put in my teaching points)
- Teaching small tech tool integration (like Flipgrid and Seesaw)
- Communicating with staff members on how to use G-suite tools
- Training teachers how to film videos for STUDENTS to use Google Classroom, Flipgrid, or Seesaw
- Reviewing student work and writing samples
- Conferring with students on their work when I'm not available to meet with each of them
- Helping parents understand how to use our online tools
Do you use Screencastify? I'd love to hear more ideas of how YOU incorporate it!
Thanks for reading!
