Screencastify vs Blender: Which is a better fit?

Sarah M.: Hi, I'm Sarah. I'm a K-12 instructional technologist for a public school district. I would give Screencastify five stars out of five. And if you'd like more information and more reviews, click the link below. Prior to using Screencastify. We had a lot of teachers using other screencasting software, Screencast-O-Matic, Loom, some other different software tools. And overall, when we went through our last year with COVID and virtual learning and hybrid learning, we really wanted to find a tool that was reliable for teachers to be able to create their screencast and share those with students and we found that Screencastify was the best choice for our teachers in our district. Screencastify was very user-friendly for both our teachers and our students for creating screencasts from either at school or from home. We found that it was easy to be able to edit the videos, to be able to upload them, share them through Drive, Google Classroom, wherever we needed to. We noticed that there were some changes with the free and the premium version of Screencastify and so personally, I recommended that we upgrade to the premium tools of Screencastify, just so we could have access to all of the amazing editing options within the software. So with Screencastify, as a technology team, we created some tutorials just to get started, letting them know that they could use it from their desktop, but also use it as an extension within their Chrome browser. Teachers easily signed up for their accounts, logged in with Google. They loved being able to have access to all of their videos in one place. The fact that they save right within Drive and so just with a little bit of practice, teachers found it very easy to be able to implement and use. So for any teachers or school districts that are currently working with students who are virtual or quarantined, we found that Screencastify really was the best method to be able to record lessons in the classroom, even if you have in-person students and face-to-face classes currently. And then we would be able to post the link and share that so that students would always have access to the lectures going on, so they're not missing out on what's going on in the classroom. So we would highly recommend checking out Screencastify if you haven't already.

Kaitlin C.: My name's Kaitlin and I am a graphic designer for a promotional product and workforce development company, and I give Blender a 3 out of 5. And other products that we had been using, and one that was more cost-effective and more easily available to our clientele and our employees as they're low income, so. Join the more accessible 3D aspects, it's in this day and age, with 3D printers and other... It just seemed more fun to be doing things the natural 3D on the screen, as opposed to the two dimensionals that was much more catered towards that. And that was one of my favorites aspects. It was just really hard to adapt from one program to another for me and a few others that were trained solely on the other program. And so, it was just the learning curve was there's not much out there on that can learn how to use it as opposed to some other software, so it was just a complicated transition.