This document provides an overview of how to use the Explain Everything app to create and share instructional videos. It outlines ideas for flipping the classroom or using videos as supplemental resources for students. Teachers can record lessons and publish them for students to view later. The document also describes how to plan, create, and annotate videos using images, video, and audio in Explain Everything. Finally, it discusses exporting and sharing finished videos through cloud storage and other platforms.

1. Presented by Sarah Guite

2.  How to create and share videos
 Ideas to get students using Explain
Everything

3.  Flip the classroom, or simply use material as
a resource for students
 Students can access material any time from
YouTube or cloud storage
 Record your own lessons and publish for
students to view later on

4.  Plan, create and share ideas
 Capture images and video and use in Explain
Everything
 For English, as a tool to improve literacy:
students can upload a reading passage and
record themselves reading, using the pointer
feature

5.  Explain Everything connects to cloud storage.
Using the gear icon
in the top right of
the home screen,
select “accounts”
and switch on the
accounts that you
would like to
connect to Explain
Everything.

6. From the home
screen, use the “+”
icon (on the far left) to
open a blank project
Use the “+” icon
second to the left to
open a pre-existing
file or image from
cloud storage.

7. - Hover over colours to change
- Move elements on the screen
- Add new slides
- Draw
- Add Shapes
- Add text
- Add photos, images, movies from photo roll or cloud
- Tap an element, then tap “x” to delete it
- Undo
- Minimize the formatting toolbar
Hover over slide counter to reveal slides, move
them around or delete them

8. Record
with the
red button.
If there is
an error,
individual
slides can
be re-
recorded

10. Save project
files to return
to your work.
Use audio and
explain by
annotating
and
manipulating
images.
Compress and
export videos.

11. Video can be
exported to camera
roll, Youtube, Box,
Dropbox, and other
cloud storage areas.

12.  Set up a shared class Box folder for students to
save their videos. Make sure students have edit
access!
 Use Creative Commons images, or have students
take their own photos.
 For teacher-created videos, start from a
Powerpoint, so that you can later use the slides
in other applications (Nearpod, for example).
 Import Explain Everything videos into iMovie to
create mashups with other videos and music.

13.  Showcase of Explain Everything Videos
 Explain Everything Videos that Explain how
Other Teachers Use Explain Everything
 Explain Everything 2.0 Updates
 Explain Everything A Connected Creativity
App