Make Super Simple Videos for Teaching Online
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- čas přidán 4. 07. 2024
- Simple videos? The hard part is actually getting the confidence to talk on camera.
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E1: 10 Tips Beyond Zoom
• 10 Online Teaching Tip...
E2: Super Simple Videos
• Make Super Simple Vide...
E3: Learning from CZcamsrs: Off-Camera Options
• What Teachers can lear...
E4: The MixTape : Audio Options
• The Mixtape: Creating ...
1:00 5 Reasons to Get on Camera:
1. Humanize your class
2. Build relationships
3. Validate and motivate students
4. Save time.
5. Send implicit messages about your class
3:01 Simple Tech Tips
Use a big light source like a window
Stabilize your camera at eye height
Any camera will work with good light.
Consider using a lapel mic
5:05 5 Tips for Talking on Camera
1. Talk back to fear
2. Connect, don't "perform"
3. Elevate your Energy
4. Relax and Roll with Mistakes
5. Start simple.
Learn more about ACUE's new course on effective online teaching practices here: acue.org/programs/catalog/
99 Tips for Creating Simple and Sustainable Educational Videos
by Karen Costa
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What do you do to get on camera? Is it as hard for you as it is for me?
In my pedagogical videos where I'm talking to the camera, it's really tough for me to turn up the intensity to overcome the camera "eating" up my energy. In my street interview videos though, I find it so easy to have a big smile as I talk to people whereas the smile while addressing the camera really does feel like a phony "performance"
Having a healthy sense of humor about oneself really helps.
I started online teaching mid-2020 and what a struggle that was. Your videos are helpful and inspiring! "Connecting rather than performing...not about me but about them." Thank you, sir!
Thank you!!! I’m setting up my research class for our nursing program and this is the most helpful thing I’ve seen. Can’t thank you enough. The humility of this video is gold!
Great video about doing videos. I teach community college, a lot of it online, and I've been doing this for about 9 years, mostly unlisted on CZcams. I did my first scripted video for a college marketing "master class" sort of thing last month and felt I had to "perform" rather than just talk off the top of my head. I hated it. But, I'll keep doing extemporaneous videos while walking to a campus meeting, or stopped at a red light, or standing in my back yard.
Duct tape, a window, and an old phone--best DIY set-up ever! You make it look easy. (I'm with Wilson and Henry on this, but also trust your great teaching skills. :)
Great stuff as always Dr. Wesch! Point two seemed very powerful to me: Connet. Don't "perform" - Can't wait for next week's video!
Great tips. Thank you.
3:03 Duct tape cellphone and paper notes to big window for great lighting and convenience.
4:05 Cheap, used cellphones online for videos.
4:23 Cheap, lapel mic online.
Thank you very much for your inspiring video! I'm writing from Mexico; I'm taking a course on "Online teaching and transition among learning environments" for professors working for UNAM (the largest public university in my country). This video is for us to do an assignment on recording videos, which I hate as much as you do -but you don't look like that. I wish I had the creativity you have! However, I cannot imagine how you could go down the hill while explaining a lesson. It seemed a little dangerous but I'm sure it was full of adrenaline. =)
This is wonderful! I just finished our emergency online end-of-semester and now starting 3 online art classes on Monday and it was bumming me out a little to not be together with my students. I feel better about things after watching this so , thank you!
Thank you so much for taking the time to do this. You have no idea how much your authenticity helps to alleviate fears. Your students are lucky to have you.
So excited for this!
This is SO good and authentic. Thank you!
That wall colour's a knockout!
Great video! Thank you for creating it. I think the best part for me was your explanation of talking back to fear, great tip there. As I ponder making videos for my multiple sites I appreciate the simple approach to making them. Blessings.
Thank you so much! Every time I watch your videos, I feel inspired.
Thank you for sharing your experience and advice!! I start my role as adjunct professor in a couple of weeks. My class is a combo of asynch and synchronous learning. The learning curve is steep!!
Thank you very much for your videos. I am an elementary teacher and I want to improve my online teaching because I'm sure part of my teaching will be online this year. Grateful that I found you.
Thank you so much for this!! This has been amazing please never stop!!
This is such a great resource for faculty and love that you referenced Karen Costa's new book! That's so cool!!!
I love your content. Although online, you always create positive relationships with you're students and still keep them engaged. I'm inspired. :)
Very awesome. Love you said "Talk back to fear!" You are a great encouragement!
"A camera will eat your energy" Aha! That's the oddness that I've been sensing. It always feel so different from recording myself talking and watching it through the screen. Now we have a good reason for someone to invent a camera that has "0% energy absorption" feature.
Inspiring ! Thanks, MIchael.
This is really great, I work on a research project at the Science Museum UK, and am going to try this with our student volunteers and placements!
I definitely need to remember to crank up the excitement to 110%. Awesome video!!
It's so hard. Sometimes I think I'm there and then I watch it back and :-/
Thank you for the amazing authentic video.
Thank you so much for this amazing video. I am inspired!!
Wow so many useful and easy to do's watched and re watched... thank you for sharing you!
This was super helpful thank you!
SO needed this today! About to start up a new series, and for the first time, putting myself in front of the camera... really appreciated, and hope you're doing well! Academia 2.0 seems like a LONG time ago now...
Yes it does! Good luck!
OMG, Thanks! This is soo motivating! I would never ever have considered making a video for my class but now I'm thinking.... Greeings from Europe!
One of the best videos I've seen on youtube :)
Thanks!
Thank you Sir!
This is awesome
Great video! I am going to share it in a blog post that I am writing for colleagues who are just starting out with online teaching. I look forward to watching your future videos. Thank you.
Would you be willing to share a link to your blog?
@@katieplaisance5861 I will share it as soon as it is posted.
@@katieplaisance5861 It took me two weeks, but here is the blog post: retphi.com/2020/05/26/my-content-creation-journey-so-far/
Hi Mike, I saw you years ago at Pasadena City College, and I mentioned Michelle Pacansky-Brock on Twitter a few months ago. I just want to share that I love your work! I have been teaching on-line for years and an advocate of Humanizing learning. I want to up my video game, and I appreciate that you are doing these tutorials. I also took your "Challenge" idea and created one for each of my units for my Freshman Comp class--the goal being to connect the content to students' lives. So, a big THANK YOU for all you do! With the 99 Tips text and these tutorials, I will be set. I like the idea of trying to make it so easy that there are constant videos being created--I'm thinking of maybe having some key video clips that I add to each semester--Clips and Adobe Spark are great for that. Have a good one! I stopped what I was doing to see your video once it popped up! On Twitter: @janetml1 and on Instagram: @thatjanetmitchelllambert
That's so great! I also love Spark and Clips for quick video. They are so fun, and I like the instant-accessibility of the Clips speech-to-text.
Cool. Two questions: What are you using to edit your videos, and how do students upload their videos? We use Blackboard at my institution.
Thank you for posting one of the best online teaching tips for higher education. Is it possible to make some basic tutorial on how you make/edit your videos, e.g moving slides etc.
Yes. I will put it on my to do list.
@@mwesch Those of us who are not tech saavy would very much appreciate a basic how-to-create/edit video. Thank you!
Good tips.
I noticed that the lapel mic off sounds more clear, and less robotic.
It also has more "echo" from the room and if you're not alone will pick up more external noise from the surrounding environment. Best practice - do a quick test with and without it to gauge what's best for each new environment you're recording in.
Amazing presentation and very useful tips!
I wonder what kind of software do you use to make your videos?
Thanks for the video! I'd love to learn more about scripting vs outlining and then speaking off the cuff. I see that you had the tapped up document under the phone for instance -- is it the full script or an outline?
I go back and forth depending on the topic and nature of the video. In general, I can't follow a script on camera, though I do use a script if I am recording an audio track. I'm still experimenting though. Even the pros are split on this. The best way is the way that works for you.
Your stuff is great! I know where to go when it is time to learn Manding!
@@mwesch Haha, thanks! I haven't done any videos with a spoken audio track yet, but got one in mind so I'll try my hand at reading soon!
Wonderful. Thank you! I'm still scared :)
Great tips!
Your suggestions on video editing and running a virtual class are very helpful. I have a question about your lapel mic. If you don't mind, which one did you purchase and how did you set it up with the rest of the equipment? Thanks!
I usually use a Tascam DR10L which is a bit expensive ($200) but very good. On the cheap end I also have a $20 no-name mic from Amazon that plugs into my old Pixel.
How do you make those videos with the words on the page? Are you using Panopto? ScreenCastOmatic? I want to do that!
This is such a great video - both for ideas and inspiration! Thank you. Just wondering, if I did want to get a little fancier and add some effects and music...which software is best? Also, much of the music is under copyright, where do you find free-to-use music?
I use Dạvinci Resolve to edit and you can get free music at the CZcams Audio Library. Check out this other video I did for more advanced tips czcams.com/video/9nQn8D0yUnc/video.html
@@mwesch Thank you! Will check it out!
Wonderful tips, thank you!! I just wonder how you manage transcribing all the video content? This is one of the things that stops me, as my time is already so limited.
CZcams's auto-caption gives you a head start. It takes about 1 hour for 10 minutes of video. Or you can hire someone at rev.com to do it at $1.25 per minute ($12.50 for 10 minutes).
@@mwesch Thank you! Just a note regarding auto-caption. It definitely helps, but gotta watch the accuracy as it typically doesn't meet ADA standards. I look forward to when we have a more streamlined solution for issues like this. I'm working on the video side of things, slowly but surely. Thank you for sharing such inspiring resources!
@@yashereen I used Rev.com for this video but they were not done with them until yesterday so I just added them then. Do these meet ADA standards?
@@mwesch Briefly, for ADA you need correct punctuation and spelling, identification of any off-camera speakers, identification of other sounds if they contribute to the meaning of the video, and the meaning must be substantially the same (you can omit filler words like um, uh). Since Rev is doing them for you, you can check what they say about their practice for meeting ADA standards. They look good to me, but I'm not an ADA standards expert. Cheers to you for having your videos captioned!
@@mwesch They look perfect! I read with sound off at first, and realized it can be a bit tough to keep up (I think I read fairly quickly), then put audio back on and hardly felt the pace. One thing I've been trying to learn is how to balance a slower pace of speech with the enthusiasm you mention. I'm so impressed with your videos, and would love to create such engaging content! :)
What app do you use on your phone to record? Do you load it straight to your uni’s LMS or post to CZcams & then give students the link? Thanks.
I just use the standard camera app. Nothing special. Then upload it to CZcams unlisted and share the link or embed it in an announcement on Canvas.
How did you edit it? I've done a lot of screencast recordings but want to learn how to edit clips. I tried iMovie this week & it didn't come out so well.
I use DaVinci Resolve. It's professional-level, but free. I only use about 5% of its capabilities.
I bought the lapel mic!
Hi Mayte - just curious - which lapel mic did you go with?
@@libbytronnes5439 Its a MOVO
@@libbytronnes5439 I got a MOVO on Amazon
A colleague recommended your videos, and I have found many of your suggestions to be very helpful. BUT. It drives me absolutely nuts that you talk about making simple videos when these are anything but simple. They are edited using all kinds of techniques and video schtick that many of us do not know and have absolutely no desire to learn. It really, really puts me off. I don't actually mind making the simple videos you espouse in the content, but the slick production values of the ones you post here seem over the top and are definitely intimidating.
Thank you. I definitely need a good supply of duct tape.
I am a foreign language teacher and I would like to make my E-learning portal where I could upload sessions, lessons & videos. Pls suggest best & economical portal. Thanks in advance
Try Canvas and let me know what you think.
Who's holding the camera when you're walking & talking outside?
It's my phone on a selfie stick