Sunday, March 5, 2017

Creating A Video "All About Kahoot" Using iMovie

This week I created a video about how to use the platform "Kahoot" using iMovie. I got started by downloading iMovie from the app store onto my iPad.  I have always heard how it easy and fun it is to create videos using iMovie, so I was excited to get started.  There are several ways to make videos using this app.  You can use videos you have filmed or create a video with pictures from the camera roll.  This part was simple enough, but editing and timing the transitions was a bit challenging.  I played around with the app for a couple of hours, and eventually had what I wanted.  I did a voice-over recording, explaining the way Kahoot is used in the classroom.  I really liked that iMovie allowed me to go back and edit any mistakes I made in my recording, and that there was music that was included.  The only downside to using iMovie was that I could not make rolling credits, and maybe this is only true of the iPad version, but I assumed that any movie editing software would have a credit function. In the end I was able to transition to some basic screenshots of the credits.  Overall, iMovie created a professional quality video, and even though you have to pay for it on the app store, I think it is well worth it because I feel like I can use it again. Here is my video "All About Kahoot."


4 comments:

  1. Wow! Your video looked like it was professionally done. Great job. One question, I also used Imovie when I created my project, how did you add the credits at the end? I played around with it but I couldn't figure out how to do it. Please let me know. Also, thanks for the step by step on Kahoot; I will definitely be using this my classroom.

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    1. Thanks for the positive feedback! For the credits, I downloaded a word processing app, there are several to choose from, and then I typed in my credits and took a picture of the screen, and inserted the photo into my iMovie project. Hope that helps :)

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  2. What a great video! You have a great voice for video and it sounded really professional. I have only used iMovie for little things on my phone...I'll have to look into using it as a high quality, purposeful tool. I enjoy the panning over images and voice-over work of your video and the topic was quite informative. I had never heard of Kahoot and I'll certainly need to look into it before I head into the classroom for good!

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  3. What a great video! You have a great voice for video and it sounded really professional. I have only used iMovie for little things on my phone...I'll have to look into using it as a high quality, purposeful tool. I enjoy the panning over images and voice-over work of your video and the topic was quite informative. I had never heard of Kahoot and I'll certainly need to look into it before I head into the classroom for good!

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