In this week’s class we covered various multimedia platforms, of which, the ones I enjoyed the most were openshot video editor and screencastify. For openshot, it was nice to see another free video editing program that works, even if it’s a tad clunky and hard to learn. Though it may be easier for younger students to learn how to use it compared to myself, since new programs like openshot can take me a while to learn. One thing about the program that I liked, was the fact that once your videos were uploaded to the program, it was easy to begin editing them, though it was very easy to try accidentally drag a clip vertically to a whole new line, rather than horizontally on the same line. Apart from that, it is a decent program that I think I may use in my class one day.

Screencastify is an extension to google chrome that allows you to record your screen, whatever happens and records your voice, if you give it access to a microphone. I like this program because it is an attachment to your browser, rather than having to run another program in the background to capture your screen. I also like the fact that when you end a recording, it automatically opens a small window where you can watch it back and choose to either save it or delete it. If I need to do any screen capture, I will consider using screencastify because of it’s ease of use.