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RIP Clips 🪦, Hello Keynote 👋

As we transition away from the Clips app, we've found Keynote to be a powerhouse for creating engaging student videos, even for our younger learners!

We recently challenged our 3rd graders to create "Historical Conversation" videos about Civil War figures, integrating research and multimedia skills.

💡 Our Quick & Easy Workflow:

  1. Preparation: Students researched a figure and created short "talking portrait" videos of the figure answering questions using ChatterPix.
  2. Keynote Creation (3 Slides Total): On each of the three slides:
  • Student Interviewer: They record themselves asking a question on the left side using Keynote's built-in Record Video feature.
  • Historical Figure: They place the corresponding ChatterPix answer video on the right side.
  1. Final Product: Export the 3-slide presentation as a Movie for a seamless, professional-looking "interview."

The teachers are planning a gallery walk of the products to show off their hard work!

I have attached the template given to students to this post. Hope it helps!

 

Keynote template given to students through Schoolwork.

Attachments

Keynote Video Social Studies

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3 replies

December 04, 2025 Language English

Oh no!! This is how I found out that Clips is leaving! I love using that app. Thank you for this idea, I will have to try it!

December 05, 2025 Language English

I love this! Thanks for the idea on how Keynote can work instead of Clips for the little ones. This certainly has been a topic of conversation.

I’m also exploring and finding ways that iMovie can replicate some of the Clips features that students enjoy using. The video filters are a cool way to change the look and feel of a scene.

Hoping that others will post their ideas on moving on from Clips to other creative tools.

December 06, 2025 Language English

Thanks for this post Andi! Definitely sad to see Clips sunsetting, but nothing wrong with using Keynote, ever! And this is yet another great integration of using Keynote for showcasing learning in fun, creative, multimodal ways!

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