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Clips [2]
What’s It Like?
Teachers and students can use Clips to create engaging, accessible video presentations that can include Live Titles (captions), music, and fun labels or animated posters. Teachers might create a short video to introduce a class project or even record video instructions in advance for a substitute teacher to play for the class. Students can use Clips as a creative way to demonstrate learning: to describe a concept, deliver a book report, or tell a story. Kids might interview several classmates on a subject and then learn how to edit the video using the simple Trim feature. Since the captions feature is available in so many languages, Clips is a great option for practicing and presenting in foreign language classes.
Price: Free
Grades: 8-12
Rating: 4/5
Pros: Integrates seamlessly with Apple’s photo and music libraries; video captions are available in many languages.
Cons: “Smart” social sharing could be too easy; teachers will want to teach kids about privacy concerns.
Bottom line: This slick video creation app is fun, empowering, and accessible in lots of languages, but be careful with sharing.