Last week Google introduced a new video recording tool called Threadit. A Chrome extension is one aspect of what Threadit offers. With the Threadit Chrome extension installed you can record a video without leaving your Gmail inbox. Threadit is now the second tool that I can recommend for recording screencast videos directly from your inbox. Loom’s Chrome extension is the first tool that I recommended for making screencast videos directly from your inbox. Both tools are demonstrated in this new video.
Learn more about all of Threadit’s features in this post on Practical Ed Tech.
Applications for Education
Both of these tools provide an easy way to reply to requests for tech help. Creating a quick screencast video to answer a student’s or a colleague’s question about how to do something on his or her computer can be a lot more efficient than trying to write step-by-step directions.
