Video creation and editing apps for the classroom

March 19, 2014April 13, 2022 Audrey Homan 4 Comments Animoto, iMotion, iMovie, PhotoStory, Reel Director, Silent Film Studio, Touchcast, Vine

What tools you use are missing from this list?

I sat down this afternoon to brainstorm a list of video editing, creation and mashup apps that could be useful for educators. Above you’ll find the nine I came up with off the top of my head, all of which I’ve either used or seen used in the classroom. But I know I’m missing some.

Here are some sample lesson plans or how-to’s for each of the video apps above:

DragonTape: Mixing YouTube in the Classroom

iMotion: Using iMotion to illustrate the water cycle:

Vine: Orchard School votes on the #MockCaldecott awards via Vine

iMovie: Essex Middle School Edge students use it to make book trailers:

Touchcast: Peoples Academy Middle Level 8th graders made STEM-focused Touchcasts to illustrate distance over time:

"An alien named Athena lives on Mars, and goes to school. Athena's house is a spaceship. When she left to go to school, she realized she left something about half way...." — “An alien named Athena lives on Mars, and goes to school. Athena’s house is a spaceship. When she left to go to school, she realized she left something about half way….”

ReelDirector: How about a video story of one classroom’s activities?

Explain Everything: Harwood Union Middle School students used Explain Everything to make short how-to videos for iMovie and Google Drive for their peers (bonus ourobouros points for hitting iMovie inside another video app)

ETA: Also, Animoto! These 5th graders made their #MockCaldecott book trailers with Animoto

And this educator handed over the iPad to her own kids, asked for a stop-motion video and was astonished by how many apps they wound up using to create their magnum opus, Invasion:

What video creation / editing / mashup / squish / bash / remix tools are you and your students using?

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Audrey Homan

Audrey Homan is a Vermont-based digital media producer, and producer of The 21st Century Classroom podcast. She's worked in non-profit communications for more than a decade, and in her spare time writes tiny video games and mucks about with augmented reality and arduinos, ably assisted by five dogs. Interviewing students and yelling in PHP are the best parts of her job.

4 thoughts on “Video creation and editing apps for the classroom”

30hands
May 18, 2014 at 2:12 pm
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Don’t forget 30hands mobile! We’re a fun and easy-to-use app to sequence a story with slides from images, photos, drawings and video clips. Narrate over the stills, review and revise each piece and then publish a final video.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/30hands/id605013231?ls=1
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Brenda Dooley
December 6, 2022 at 7:19 am
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We’re a fun and simply programmed that lets you create slideshows of images, photos, drawings, and video clips to tell a story. Narrate the still images, go through and edit each segment, and finally publish the finished movie.
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Michael Kim
May 11, 2023 at 11:19 am
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We’re a fun and simply programmed that lets you create slideshows of images, photos, drawings, and video clips to tell a story. Narrate the still images, go through and edit each segment, and finally publish the finished movie.
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