Jul 24, 2021

Kahoot Groups and Collection

With a shared premium account, you can create groups and collections for greater collaboration in building up the Kahoot resources.

Create groups in the school account.

Invite members to your group and the members can share the quizzes they have created. Remember to duplicate a copy so that it can be added to the collection in the designated folder.


Share the Kahoot quiz you have created in your personal account with the group created in the school account.


Also to note - under the premium account you can assign the quiz to a maximum of 500 participants.

This is great for HBL as you can assign the quiz to the whole level.

http://ezitnew.blogspot.com/2020/04/kahoot-on-hbl.html

Under the premium account, you can also use the type answer option for question type.


  


Jul 17, 2021

Snip & Sketch

Totally grateful to this tool from Windows 10. 

The easiest way to call up Snip & Sketch is with the keyboard shortcut Windows key + Shift + S. 

You can also find the Snip & Sketch tool listed in in the alphabetical list of apps accessed from the Start button as well as in the notification panel where it listed as Screen snip. 

Once you take your screenshot, it will be saved to your clipboard and show up momentarily as a notification in the lower-right corner of your screen. Click the notification to open the screenshot in the Snip & Sketch app to annotate, save or share it. Or you can paste it onto Paint for editing. I have also been able to paste it in WhatsApp web messages directly. 

I like this compared to pressing the printscreen key  (PrtScn) as I could choose the part of the screen to copy.



However, you can set the PrtScn button to open the Snip & Sketch tool by going to Settings > Ease of Access > Keyboard and toggling on Use the PrtScn button to open screen snipping under Print Screen Shortcut. 



Slides to videos

My ICT HOD, Mr Shasi, shared a tool Narakeet which allows the uploading of slides which convert it into a video that is automatically narrated for you. You can choose from about twenty voiceover options, adjust the speed of the voiceover, and choose to have captions automatically added into your video. This was shared to him by Richard which you can see from the videos below.

To use Narakeet you must have your slides in PPTX format. Fortunately, all of the popular slideshow creation tools including Canva, Google Slides, and Keynote let you export your presentations as PPTX files. When you upload your PPTX file to Narakeet your speaker notes are used as the basis for the narration that is created for your video. When your video is completed you can download it as an MP4 file that can be used anywhere that you typically share videos.

https://www.narakeet.com/



From PowerPoint slides:


From Keynotes:


From Google slides:



However, if you just simply want to convert the slides to a video without the auto narration, I have been getting my students to use the screen recording function on PowerPoint Slides which I had shared earlier. My students learned and they were able to create the videos instantly.


I would say it is easier as all SSOE laptop has ppt? 
And if you do not wish to create an account with Narakeet and do not mind your own voice over.