Simple, Cheap, and Easy Video for You and Your Students
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Screencasting for Pedagogy
Screencasting is ideal for creating repeatable, pausible mini-lessons that cover technical procedures or introduce features of software or web tools. This frees up classtime for more important things.
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Teaching Basic Video (Narrated Slideshow) Production
In various courses, students can learn some basic digital creation and analysis skills for video media, by creating simple video documentary films. In addition to content considerations, students must learn the procedures for using software and online hosting sites. Rather than (repeatedly) spend time in class teaching these workflows, a professor can instead point students to short tutorial screencasts covering a few major applications that are ideal for the assignment.
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If you regularly assign video assignments, anticipate discovering new tools students might use, and recording new tutorials for your class. In the past, for Windows users I recorded video how-tos for Movie Maker 2012, but have since concluded that it's clunky and troublesome, compared to simply using PowerPoint.
Sample Assignment
This sample assessment builds on a traditional term paper assignment, having students bring traditional scholarship into video creation. It was created for an undergraduate history course geared primarily toward freshmen and non-history majors. Other assignments may be quite different, but should probably have some basic commonalities, such as a script, stipulations on image content, length, and so on. Above all, students should consider the assignment a serious composition (and not something to be recorded last minute and left unedited.)
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| Very quick and easy screencasting. Limited to five minutes. To share videos, practically requires upload to screencast.com, and use of flash for playback. | |
| Ideal for everyday screencast and webcam recording. Free version allows 15 minute videos with a minor watermark. Videos recorded can be sent directly to Screencast-O-Matic's hosting site or YouTube, and allows video file creation for hosting in Google Drive. Videos can record and include screencasts, webcams, or both. Paid version includes editing and scripting tools. | |
| Simple online slideshow video creator, that does not require a login (account.) Must record narrative audio with another tool, and upload to combine with slides. | |
| High-end video creation and editing suite, that contains an excellent toolset for screencast or webcam recording. Camtasia is very expensive, but offers discount for educators. (There's a 1-month free trial, but it installs an imposing watermark on videos.) If you anticipate doing lots of video work, it is worth purchasing. For example, Camtasia has a full-featured, simple to use pan-and-zoom tool not widely available in screencast or editing applications. | |
| An excellent whiteboarding tool for tablets that records all activity as a screencast. Ideal for discussing maps or images with annotations. | |
| Microsoft PowerPoint, particularly 2013 and 2016, can easily export slideshows with narrations and timings to .MP4 video files. | |
QuickTime & iMovie for Mac | Mac computers include excellent tools for webcam and screencast recording and editing. |
Spark | A simple, free toolset that allows creation of meme graphics, simple but dynamic web pages, and slideshow videos. Works on Desktop (PC or Mac) and mobile apps (Tablets.) |
Hosting Videos
| Common Standard. Includes simple editing tools. Included in Google Apps for Education. | |
Google Drive | Cloud Storage using YouTube player tech. Included in Google Apps for Education. |
| Alternative to Google products. |