Hi.
I'm Lee LeFever, co-founder of Common Craft,
and I'm here to help you understand how and why
educators use our videos.
Common Craft videos are designed to explain.
To do that, we answer "why" questions
like, "Why should I care?"
Or, "Why does this make sense?"
Imagine that you're teaching a new subject,
and your goal is to move students from knowing very
little to clear understanding.
If you start on the wrong foot, they
may never care about the subject and tune out.
That's where Common Craft videos come in.
They answer the "why" questions early,
which jump-starts student learning and moves them quickly
towards understanding.
There are three ways educators use our videos--
embedding, downloading, and displaying.
On each video page, you can click the Embed button,
copy and paste a bit of code, and share the video
on websites like blogs, wikis, and learning platforms.
You can also click Download to save video files
to your computer and insert them in presentations, learning
management systems and more.
And you can always display our videos full screen right
from the Common Craft website.
Keep in mind that all our videos come
with captioned versions that can also be embedded or downloaded.
And finally, Common Craft videos come with downloadable lesson
plans that will help you design lessons around the videos.
Each one includes learning objectives,
discussion questions, quiz questions, and links
to further reading.
So that's why and how educators use Common Craft videos.
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact us.
Thanks, and I hope we'll see you inside Common Craft.