Video Screen Recording

So before I started this blog I didn't know how to do something that you see on youtube all the time - a video recording of what's happening on your computer screen. I found out how to do it, and if you have a Mac it's actually super simple!

Step 1 - Open Quicktime Player
Step 2 - In the top left corner go to file -> New Screen recording

Step 3 - You'll get a pop-up for a box with a red record button icon in the middle. If you want to make it so that you can record your voice also, click down on the arrow next to the record button. If you have your own microphone set-up you can use that, or you can just use your mac's internal microphone like me!

Step 4 - After you hit record you have two options. You can either A) click and drag on the screen for the section you want to record (it can be adjusted before you start the recording), or B) just click anywhere on your screen and it will begin to record your full screen.

Step 5 - This part held me up for a little bit- after you start recording, it's not so obvious how to stop. Eventually I found a stop button in the top right corner of my screen that hadn't been there before!

Step 6 - After you stop your recording, a quicktime movie player of your new recording will pop-up. Be careful though, it doesn't mean it is automatically saved! To save the video you can click File -> Save and then enter in the details for your save box. 

Optionally, you can select File -> Export ->    .. and you will see some extra options for saving at different qualities and sizes.

And it's as easy as that! No need to get any new apps or installations, the capability is there for you already if you have a apple computer.

As a teacher, this is a great resource for making videos to give walkthroughs for students, for making videos in a flipped classroom setting, or it can even be used to record a small section of a video to have it saved for your lessons and presentations!

Hope this was as helpful for you as it was for me!
-Bill from Blogspot