Biteable is an online platform where you can edit videos and present them in class to make the lesson more interesting all the while gaining the students' attention. You need to create an account first before you can start making videos. You can click on the 'Sign Up - Free' button at the upper left corner of the screen. Once you have signed up, it will automatically direct you to your 'welcome' page. This page is where all of the videos that you have created will be displayed. You can start creating your videos by clicking on the 'Create a New Video' button on your video page. Before that, if you are planning to continue making videos on this site but does not want to get everything mixed up, you can create a folder and sort those videos into their designated folders. Next, you can either pick your templates from the ones featured on this website or start from scratch. Before picking the templates, you can preview it first to see what the template is like.
(Your video page)
Once you have picked your template, you can start editing your video. There are five main sections on this page. The first one is the timeline section, where you can organize your contents according to the order that you preferred. The second section is the colour section where you can choose the background colour you preferred your video to be. The third one is the audio section, a section where you can edit the audio that you want to include in your video. The next section is the preview section, a section where you can have a look at your almost finished product for any mistakes or errors so you correct it before publishing the video on the website. There is also the editing section where you can include your own contents in the video and time it to how long you want a certain scene from the video to last.
(The video editing page)
This tool can be used by both the teachers and the students. It is indeed beneficial for a teacher to implement it in the classroom as they can encourage the students to think more creatively on how to do their assignments. Since this website focuses on video making, the teacher can introduce them to the students so that they can use it in their future assignments, be it individually or in a group, to make it more interesting. It will create a more fun classroom that allows the students to be motivated to learn. It also enables the teacher to approach and understand the students in a new way that is different from the one in traditional classrooms.
Students could help improve the quality of their assignments or presentations by using this tool. This is because this tool allows students access to a variety of features that would be helpful for them in making videos so that their presentations or assignments would not look so simple and traditional. Students would feel more interested in learning if tools like this is implemented in the classroom. This is due to the fact that this website promote creative thinking by applying graphics and many other interesting visual and auditory aids that can attract the students' attention in class.
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