Unit 2: Editing Your Instructional Videos

Creating Instructional Videos to Support Student Learning

Unit 1: Filming Your own Instructional Videos

Unit 2: Editing Your Instructional Videos

Now that you've learned how to create your own video and audio content you should be ready to film the clips you will need for your instruction video. Once you have captured your desired video and audio, it will be time to begin editing. While it may be easier to simply upload your video recording and present it to students as is, editing can help make your instructional videos more coherent and engaging. By removing mistakes, shortening run time, and adding additional pictures, video clips, and text, editing can help make your video easier to understand and more enjoying to watch.

Start by taking a look at this video below from the Scishow Youtube channel. Notice how the video utilizes, clips of the narrator speaking directly to camera, on screen text, and photos that illustrate the points of the video. As you work through Unit 2, you will need to consider what additional text and photos you'll want to add to your video, and how you will order your content to best achieve your video's purpose.

Unit Objective:

Participants will be able to edit their own videos by manipulating video and audio clips, and by adding text and photos.

Lesson 1: Choosing Video Editing Software

This lesson will walk you through how to select a video editing platform that best first your need.

Lesson 2: Uploading and Cutting Video and Audio Clips

This lesson will give an overview of how to upload video and audio clips, how to shorten their length, and how to move around their order.

Lesson 3: Adding Text and Photos

This lesson will discuss how to add text and photos to your instructional videos.