video and lecture capture
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Aren’t students “sick” of lecturing?
Maybe not – many say that lectures help them learn
Many also say that they like connecting with an instructor, and lecture capture helps us do that, especially in online and hybrid courses
It saves you time!
Do it once and edit as needed
It makes things clearer!
Students often need further clarification – posting what you say online, with notes, helps them regardless of the type of course
A style of teaching that has students reviewing lectures and “up-front” information in advance of coming to class
During class time, students participate in projects, group work, and other activities
Lectures aren’t necessarily for everyone, all the time – see http://ericmazur.com/videos.php
Flipped strategies can meet resistance unless all students understand their level of accountability
Assign questions, connected projects, discussions, tests to go along with posted lectures to encourage participation, active learning, and accountability
Multimedia effect: words and pictures are more powerful than words alone
Continuity: related words and pictures should be near each other onscreen
Personalization: students learn better from more informal, conversational styles
Coherence: Extraneous or “nice to know” information does not help student learning
Modality: Students learn better when their visual channel is not overloaded (words as speech rather than onscreen text)
Be yourself and keep things light
Use voice to reinforce any onscreen text
Provide notes, captions, or transcripts for different learning styles
Keep it short and meaningful (<12 minutes per segment)
Use still pictures and video as much as possible and where appropriate
Tie activities to the video if it’s important that they watch –otherwise, it might get skipped
Ideally, the videos you create should be captioned or a transcript made available for ADA accessibility
There are several tools and resources available to help you caption videos you produce
Camtasia has captioning built-in YouTube has online caption editing services The GEL office can caption videos for a small
fee to your department
ECHO360
Live Available for streaming on-
demand about 24 hours after the recording
Can be scheduled for your class time – no button pressing!
Share one link with students for the whole semester
Example of Echo360: http://163.245.1.110:8080/ess/portal/section/ed51c2d7-4906-4d27-9f84-ce599daedee4
CAMTASIA
Pre-recorded Captures everything on the
screen, plus voice and camera Excellent for presentations,
or showing students how to do a task on the computer
Can take video of any portion of the screen that you wish
Can be uploaded directly to YouTube or saved for uploading into Kaltura/BlackBoard
WEBEX
You can conduct classes online via WebEx at http://purdue.webex.com
Sessions can be recorded for later viewing
Links appear in “My Recorded Meetings” OR your Kaltura Mediaspace(through BlackBoard or http://mediaspace.itap.purdue.edu
SKYPE OR GOOGLE HANGOUTS
Cannot be easily recorded for later viewing but great for meeting with students online
Sessions can be recorded via screen capture software like Camtasia
Audio can be recorded with software like Audio Hijack (Mac) or Total Recorder (Windows)
Find out if Echo is in your classroom: http://www.pnc.edu/distance/echo-360/
Get your account set up: email [email protected] or fill out a ticket request
Echo can be automatically scheduled to come on when you are teaching, and shut off when you’re done
Each session has a unique link but are all assembled at your EchoCenter, which has one link
Purdue has a university license for you to have Camtasia in your office and on your home machine (Mac and Windows)
Visit http://www.itap.purdue.edu/learning/tools/camtasia/ to download the license request form and wait approximately 24-48 hours for response
You will be able to download from a secure Filelocker the Camtasia version of your choice, along with SnagIt – a great tool for capturing and editing still, single-frame screen captures
YouTube (free – time limited)
Google Drive (free) Screencast.com (space
limited without paying) Save as MP4 and use
through Kaltura in BlackBoard (can be slow with large files)
Learn more: http://www.pnc.edu/distance/camtasia-and-jing/
Mayer’s multimedia theory: http://www.learning-theories.com/cognitive-theory-of-multimedia-learning-mayer.html
Common but questionable principles of multimedia learning: http://www.cogtech.usc.edu/publications/clark_five_common.pdf
10 Tools to Flip Your Class (tip: most are screen-capture related!): http://electriceducator.blogspot.com/2011/04/10-tools-to-help-you-flip-your.html
Flipped class best practices: http://www.edutopia.org/blog/flipped-classroom-best-practices-andrew-miller
Reach us at: [email protected]
Twitter and Facebook: @PNCOLT
http://www.pnc.edu/distance for all workshop notes, links, and training needs