ANASTASIA TREKLES, PH.D.

Video and Multimedia for Teaching

• It can demonstrate, explicate, and illustrate in ways that text and pictures alone often can’t

• It’s usually the next best thing to being there

• It can reinforce important points to make them that much clearer

• It can help students who process information better with visuals and/or audio

Why Do We Love Video?

• 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)

Mayer’s Multimedia Principles

• Be yourself and keep things light

• Use voice to reinforce any onscreen text

• Use still pictures and video as much as possible and where appropriate

Implementing the Principles

• Keep it short and meaningful (<12 minutes per segment)

• Tie activities to the video if it’s important that they watch – otherwise, it might get skipped

• Provide transcripts and/or lecture notes (this is essential for ADA accessibility!)

• Provide downloads of videos or other learning materials on a thumb drive or CD/DVD

• Recommend to students places to study on and off-campus, such as in an open computer lab, the cafeteria, or a local coffee shop

• Use tools that allow for media to be accessed and/or downloaded onto mobile devices that students may very well have available to them, like smartphones and iPads

What About Students Who Don’t Have Access at Home?

• Captions should be onscreen long enough to be read

• Limit to no more than two lines

• Synchronize as well as possible with the spoken word

• Punctuation and italics can clarify meaning

• Describe sound effects when they convey meaning

• All actual words are captioned

Captioning Best Practices

• There are several tools available to help you caption videos you produce

• Camtasia has captioning built-in

• YouTube has online caption editing services

• Subtitle Workshop is a free tool that allows you to write or import captions to almost any type of video

Tools for Captioning

• Capture what you are doing on the screen, plus webcam and audio

• Full editing, very flexible

• Published video can be viewed on multiple devices

• Assess understanding with built-in quizzing

• Overview: http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.html

Camtasia

• 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

Getting Camtasia for Home and Office

Camtasia Interface

Recording

Editing

• You can also annotate and mark up screenshots for printed handouts with arrows, text, etc

• See http://www.techsmith.com/tutorial-snagit-current.html for complete list of written and video tutorials for Snag-It

• Designed to take and annotate screenshots and basic screen video

• Capture is simple to use and always available from the little red “camera” at the top of your screen: http://www.techsmith.com/tutorial-snagit-using-all-in-one-capture.html

Snag-It

Snag-It Interface

• Great resource: http://www.techsmith.com/tutorial.html

• PNC website: http://www.pnc.edu/distance/camtasia-and-jing/

• Custom Media with SnagIt and Camtasia: http://assets.techsmith.com/Docs/pdf-camtasiaStudio/Camtasia_Studio_8.1_Create_Library_Media.pdf

• Tips for engaging screencasts: http://assets.techsmith.com/Docs/pdf-camtasiaStudio/Camtasia_Studio_8.1_Create_Engaging_Screencasts.pdf

Getting Along with Camtasia

• 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)

Publish It!

• 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

Resources

• Flipped classroom design: http://digitalsandbox.weebly.com/flipped-classroom-design.html

• Flipped class best practices: http://www.edutopia.org/blog/flipped-classroom-best-practices-andrew-miller

• Flipped classroom in math: http://www.sophia.org/school-of-thought/the-flipped-classroom-wsqing-into-twirls--2

Flipped Classroom Resources

Reach us at: • pncolt@pnc.edu • Twitter and Facebook: @PNCOLT• http://www.pnc.edu/distance for all workshop notes, links, and training needs

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