A woman is teaching and showing a tablet while being filmed on a smartphone.

Creating Videos with Your Phone

Smartphones today have everything you need to capture video for your classes, and the built-in Camera app will suffice for most people.

However, native camera apps usually don't have many tools for video EDITING (other than trimming your clips). You can definitely upload the footage to a computer and edit it there, or you can do all the editing and even uploading from your phone directly.

App Spotlight: InShot

If you want to do some quick and easy edits with your phone, one app to consider is InShot. Here's a quick video introduction:

Want to learn more? Check out the guides:

More Ideas and Inspiration

Michael Wesch teaches in Canvas and makes creative, simple videos for his classes. Check out his reasons, his tools, and his process in this inspiring video: