Week 3:Loom Video Messaging


 Loom is a video recording tool that is available in the Chrome Web Extension Store. I have found this tool to be invaluable to both my team and my students.  Unlike Screancastify, there is no time limit, and it is free. Another feature that I like about Loom is that it has your personal library, but also you can make teams. You can think of these teams like setting up shared drives in google where you can share your videos with anyone who has an email account in your organization, including teachers, students, and administrators.  

I have come to use to loom over the years as a resource to share videos with my content team. It is great that we can share our demonstration videos with each other since that is what we do a lot of in Art. Another tool I use a lot with the Team feature is set Teams for classes. I set up a team for each class and invite them to the team. Then I can assign them to do digital critiques and share them with the team.  Another way to utilize the Team feature with students is to have a student that I know understands the material from an upper-level class actually teach the lesson on video for a lower level class and share it that that Team folder. It gives them experiences reinforcing the content and gives the digital literacy they need today. 

If you have not checked out loom for videos, I highly recommend it! Once you are finished recording a video, it gives you a link right away that you can copy and past to any platform. This is great for putting up for students who are absent or asynchronously if you are teaching Hybrid. 

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  1. Alison SmithJanuary 23, 2021 at 4:43 PM

    Tara, thanks for sharing about your experience with Loom. The fact that it is free and that there is no time limit is definitely a plus! It actually sounds similar to Mote that we learned about this week too. Yet, it sounds like Loom has the video feature that has been especially helpful for your art classes. I love the idea of having older students or those who have a good grasp of the concept, make a video for other students to view.

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  2. Donna HaidleJanuary 23, 2021 at 5:22 PM

    Hi Tara,
    This tool sounds amazing. Even thought my students wouldn't use it independently, it sounds like something I can use to record lessons and then share with my students easily. I like how you are having experienced students record the lessons. Teaching is the best way to really learn a concept and internalize it! Thanks for sharing.

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  3. AnonymousJanuary 24, 2021 at 4:26 PM

    Oh my free ... I wish our district would have know about this several months ago. We purchased Screencastify for the entire district. We are expected to record lessons daily. All of my math, reading, science, and social studies lessons are prerecorded (no confidentiality issues this way) and post at the end of each school day. This way if a remote learner is unable to join class because of a tech issue or daycare issue they have the same lesson available to them. I think the idea of higher level classes teaching lower level classes is great. I usually have my students go to the board to explain how they solved a math problem. Since they are not allowed out of their seats this year I wonder if they could record themselves solving a problem and post it. I love this idea. Thank you.

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  4. Dr. ThomasFebruary 2, 2021 at 10:51 AM

    This is a tool I hear many classroom teachers bragging about. Thank you for sharing.

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