Looking to make videos in the classroom? Apple Clips is a neat free video-creation app for iPad or iPhone.
What does it do?
Apple Clips lets you quickly combine text, music, graphics, recorded voice, images, and animations to create videos with ease. So if you are trying to find a way to explain a topic or a teaching point then you might find Apple Clips a handy way to create a visually engaging video. The inclusion of inbuilt graphics such as arrows, finger pointers and many more adaptable images make this really easy to highlight parts of photographs or video clips with explanatory text or spoken voice.
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Why is it useful?
If learners in your classroom are trying to demonstrate their understanding of a topic being studied then this app can provide a great means for learners to illustrate their understanding of concepts.
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How does it work?
The YouTube video below from Apple Distinguished Educator Mat Pullen provides a tutorial on how to get started with Apple Clips.
This guide from the Apple Teacher Learning Centre is a self paced way to learn how to use Apple Clips.
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Want to see more of Apple Clips in action?
Alan Ellis uses Apple Clips to quickly create teacher guides and shared this tweet showing his guide for QR code scavenger hunts.
This guide from Connected Learning Glasgow showed how to use Apple Clips to explain learning while working remotely but a lot of the rationale is applicable to in classroom learning or creating revision or support videos for pupils.
This video shows how to create looping video clips in Apple Clips by AppleEDU and @RomainLaurent_
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Where can you learn more about Apple Clips?
This webpage from Apple gives more information on Apple Clips.
Apple Education have a free downloadable guide called Everyone Can Create showing how to make use of Apple Clips app to support creativity in learning and teaching.
Get ideas for using Apple Clips meaningfully in your lessons from this webpage at the Apple Teacher Learning Centre.
