Screencastify VS Loom Educational Duct Tape: An EdTech Integration Mindset

Screencastify or Loom? Trying to decide which of the two big dogs in classroom screencasting to use? Well, I've got your back. And not only do I have your back, but I have it in 4 formats: text, infographic, video, and podcast. Choose your flavor and get your learn on!
If you decide to use one of them, check out my Screencastify and Loom tutorials!
🍦 Flavor 1: Infographic
🍦 Flavor 2: Podcast 🍦 Flavor 3: Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE2F3p_-qPg
🍦 Flavor 4: Text!
Hi there, my name is Jake Miller. And I'm here in this YouTube video or podcast or blog post to talk to you about two of the most commonly used screencasting tools in education today and help you decide which one to use. Now, before we talk about those tools, I want to point out that I did say, I'm here in this YouTube video or podcast or blog posts, because this content is available in all three ways, so that you can get the information in the way that works best for you. So if you're in one tool, and you'd rather have it as a podcast, or a video or a blog post, that information will be in the show notes or the link or the descriptions or whatever it might be. So you could toggle over to one of those options to learn it in that format that works best for you.
Okay, as I said, we're going to talk about two of the most common screencasting tools using education. First off, there's not only two tools out there, I've narrowed it down to the two tools that I think that educators with limited bandwidth for making these decisions should consider if you feel like you have the time to evaluate all of the tools out there and choose the one that's really best for you, by all means go for it. There are merits to the other tools that are out there. But I think if you really want to just look at just two tools, if that's all that you can really handle comparing right now, because you're busy with other stuff, these are the two tools you should you should consider. With that said, I think tools like Screencast-o-Matic have great features. I use a tool called Camtasia. It's just that it's not a free tool, so that's why I don't recommend that one here. I think the screen recorder in Flipgrid is pretty awesome. I know of teachers who use Nimbus and love Nimbus for this. And there are other options out there even other than the ones that I've mentioned there. But these are the two that I think are the best to consider if you really want to just narrow it down quickly and pick the one that works best for you.
So again, we're going to be talking about Screencastify, which has been around for quite a while and I've been using for free for five or six years in education and recommending it to lots of educators. And then about a year or so ago, somebody said "I actually use Loom." Now, I had never considered Loom and I told them like "Yeah, whatever I'm sure Screencastify is just fine and better than Loom." But then I heard it from other educators and I started to wonder "Hmm, maybe I should check it out and see if it really is as good as Screencastify." And it turned out it was kind of like that situation where you have your favorite taco restaurant and you tell everybody about how great your taco restaurant is. And they tell you, Oh, do you check out the tacos at my favorite taco restaurant? And you're like, no way, no way there is good. But then you realize that it's possible for there to be two different good taco restaurants and then both to be completely valid, and you can eat it, both of them and enjoy both of them. So you go to that taco restaurant, you try out a taco, and you're like, there barbacoa tacos. Pretty good, right? And they're like, maybe I should start considering this one too. And you realize that there are two good options to consider here. Now, spoiler alert, I'm not going to tell you which one you should use. And I'm not going to tell you which one's the best because there is no answer to that to that question. There is, howev