Screencasting with Explain Everything

For my classroom flip, I recorded a short video on solving and graphing inequalities in one variable, using the iPad app Explain Everything. [See the "screencasts" section of my blog for a more detailed post on Explain Everything.] I chose to make my own video for this lesson because I wanted to use some real life situations as examples of inequalities, and I couldn't find exactly what I wanted on Khan Academy or other similar sites.

I started by creating slides in Google Drive Presentation with my title, headings, and examples. Explain Everything can import Powerpoint slides, but not Google Drive Presentations, so I had to save the Presentation slides as photos, then import the photos into the app. This was a little cumbersome, but I'm trying to work with the Google Universe and wanted to test out this workflow.

The app worked well for this video, especially now that I'm getting more comfortable working with the options while recording. The one thing that I don't like about this app is that the microphone on the iPad picks up quite a bit of ambient noise - at a couple of points you can hear my computer chiming in the background. This will happen to some extent with any microphone, but I notice less ambient noise when I record with my Logitech headset.

Uploading the video takes a bit of time, but works smoothly. You can find the video here on my YouTube page.