When developing my "how-to" sheet, as describe in my most recent blog post, I needed to figure out how I was going to present it. I started off developing my "how-to" sheet using InDesign (publishing software), however I was not entirely happy with it. That is when I decided I wanted to record a walk-through video that showed the process visually accompanied with an oral recording. This brought up some challenges of its own as I had never done a presentation of this nature before.
I begun by doing some research (thank you Google) on how to do a screen recording. This led me to download QuickTime player. After reading various how-to's and watching a number of YouTube videos I felt confident in my ability to use QuickTime player to record my screen whilst also providing an oral commentary. Now, don't be fooled, this was not as easy as I first imagined. I did not write a script for my commentary as I wanted it to sound as natural as possible. This posed problems of its own as mind blanks and mistakes became a feature of my recordings. This led to me having to record, and re-record many times until I was completely happy with my recording. Finally I succeeded, YAY!
The next learning came as I needed to trim some of my recording. I experimented with this in both QuickTime player and iMove. I then needed to export my video to upload to our forum. This is where the next challenge occurred. The problem was that the forum only allowed for a file of 100mb to be uploaded - however, my presentation was well above this limit. Therefore I needed to compress my file - this required lots of fiddling as it took a few rounds of exporting to get my video to the required size.
A lot of learning happened this week, all of which I will bring forward into my classroom teaching. I will be able to teach the students in my class how to use this tool for them to use.
If you want to check out my "how-to" sheet, please refer to my previous blog post!
I begun by doing some research (thank you Google) on how to do a screen recording. This led me to download QuickTime player. After reading various how-to's and watching a number of YouTube videos I felt confident in my ability to use QuickTime player to record my screen whilst also providing an oral commentary. Now, don't be fooled, this was not as easy as I first imagined. I did not write a script for my commentary as I wanted it to sound as natural as possible. This posed problems of its own as mind blanks and mistakes became a feature of my recordings. This led to me having to record, and re-record many times until I was completely happy with my recording. Finally I succeeded, YAY!
The next learning came as I needed to trim some of my recording. I experimented with this in both QuickTime player and iMove. I then needed to export my video to upload to our forum. This is where the next challenge occurred. The problem was that the forum only allowed for a file of 100mb to be uploaded - however, my presentation was well above this limit. Therefore I needed to compress my file - this required lots of fiddling as it took a few rounds of exporting to get my video to the required size.
A lot of learning happened this week, all of which I will bring forward into my classroom teaching. I will be able to teach the students in my class how to use this tool for them to use.
If you want to check out my "how-to" sheet, please refer to my previous blog post!