How to Use Rocketbook Snapcast to Create a Khan Academy Style Video
Create and share remote lessons with your students!
Khan Academy is a free website that hosts thousands of video lessons ranging from first-grade math to college world history. The videos feature drawings on an electronic blackboard with teacher commentary about the material being taught, similar to the style of a lecture. Click here for an example.
But what if you want to create your own lesson video to share with students that showcases your artful notes and golden teaching voice?
Rocketbook Snapcast has you covered.
What is Snapcast? And Why Use It?
These are good questions. Snapcast is a feature in the Rocketbook app that allows you to share any notebook page or whiteboard with remote students. It’s like a website that immediately updates with new content any time you take a photo of your notes! (Actually, that’s exactly what it is). Learn more about what Snapcast is or how to enter Snapcast mode in the Rocketbook app from our help center.
How to Use Snapcast to Create a Remote Lesson Video
Later in this blog post, we offer some use cases where you might find Snapcast useful, but first, we’re covering the instructions on how to use Snapcast to create a video lesson. It’s a little boring, but it’s massively important. Scan in Snapcast mode, open the Snapcast URL on your computer, then record your audio and your screen. You will then have a saved video of your handwritten notes with audio commentary for students to follow along.
Why Use Snapcast to Create a Video Lesson:
In case you can’t think of why this would be useful for you, here’s some situations where using Snapcast to create a Khan Academy style video will help you share lessons with your students:
- Math Concepts: Typing math equations is like eating oatmeal raisin cookies; it’s acceptable, but it’s not ideal. Save yourself time by writing out math equations and graphs during your lessons instead of typing them. Use Snapcast.
- After School Help: Maybe some students are having extra trouble with a particular subject and you want to create a lesson that they can watch and study from on their own time. Use Snapcast.
- Practice Problems: A big exam is coming up and there’s some example questions you want to walk through, but don’t have time to cover in class. Use Snapcast.
Additional Resources for Teachers
Right now there’s lots of resources for helping teachers being shared, but maybe you’ve still got some unanswered questions. If you’d like additional help, suggestions, tips, or tools for providing a great remote classroom environment for your students, we’ve got your covered.
- Check out our Educator Resource Page which is full of tools and tips for mastering your virtual classroom like how to livestream your lessons or the 3 ways parents can make your job easier.
- Email our educational advisor, Maggie Robbins, at maggie.robbins@getrocketbook.com. Maggie taught middle and high school for 25+ years, primarily in Math and Engineering, at Westside Middle School Academy in Danbury, CT.
- Email Rocketbook at hello@getrocketbook.com for any questions on how we can help you.
Help other teachers by sharing your tips online with the hashtag #BetterTogether.
In the meantime, thank you for working hard to help make this a seamless transition for your students despite it being anything but for you.
Try It Free: Distance learning is difficult for everyone, not just those with Rocketbook products. To help ease that difficulty, we offer free Rocketbook PDFs that can be used with Snapcast for notebooks. Additionally, you can make homemade Beacons for free, which will work with Snapcast for whiteboards, if that’s more your style.
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