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The goal of this book is to showcase a variety of ways to create Awesome Sauce videos in the classroom, regardless of what your tech skills are. I believe anyone with a smartphone, tablet, or any other recording device can create amazing videos for students. With a little creativity, even the most basic setups can yield great results.

The internet is littered with new technology elements that can spice up what you do, but don’t let those distract or deter you from creating something epic. As you create, you will pick up tools and tricks along the way to improve and grow as a filmmaker. Watch plenty of YouTube videos and pay attention to how the YouTuber films different things.

A 2019 Common Sense Media census found that children ages 8–12 average about five hours of screen time daily, and teens about seven and a half hours—not including school or homework assignments! These two age groups also view an average of almost an hour of video content each day (Rideout & Robb, 2019). They are constantly immersed in online content.

Students love spending hours watching videos from the YouTube elite. Ask your students who their favorite YouTube celebrities are. Figure out why. Maybe they’re not your style, but looking at popular YouTubers will give you some insight into what engages students.

This book doesn’t dive too far into any technology specifics on purpose—the result of an eye-opening presentation I did to a group of teachers working on their master’s degrees. I was sharing ways to integrate video into the classroom, using a presentation I’d done a dozen times before, but it had been six months since I had last shared it. Partway through my presentation, I had the teachers log onto Microsoft PowerPoint and try to download the Mix tab, only to find out that the Mix tab had gone away a couple of months earlier. That wasn’t helpful. We ended up finding an alternative, but this reminded me that technology is dynamic. At the rate technology changes, anything I could put in this book would be outdated before it even goes to print. You’ll find general ideas for technology and ways to use them, but for specific apps, websites, and tools connected to each recipe and section of this book, check out my website, mrstockrocks.com. There you’ll find video tutorials and explanations that dive deep into the latest and greatest tools to accomplish what I outline in the book.

To get started, check out the Awesome Sauce 101 playlist on YouTube: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLifJz8mRJxI3dCFS0jOCbR0e3JE2US094