Video recording and editing basics that often are overlooked as well as tools and effective practices to take your video to the next level.

1. KIM UNGER, WHITNEY KILGORE, MARY HELEN CULBERTSON
S’MORE VIDEO PLEASE!

2. http://bit.ly/29x3I3a
Video Resource Guide
Really silly (and slightly morbid).

3. Participation
Gamification “spot the movie”
Hashtag = backchannel
#instcon and #instvideo
Poll Everywhere = devices
Take pictures & tweet = we aren’t shy
Share any key ideas you will implement

4. Finding the Motivation
value + confidence = motivation
“How can I feel
confident in front
of the camera and
producing my own
videos?”
“What value
is there in
making
video?”

5. Poll Everywhere:
Have you felt uncomfortable in front of the
camera?

6. Common concerns – “HOW DO I LOOK?”

7. Common concerns – “HOW DO I LOOK?”
Mirror image – Displays your reverse
image. Your right side appears on your
reflection’s left side, and vice versa.
Non-mirror image – Displays your “true” image
insofar as it’s what the camera displays, and
what other people see when they look at you
face-to-face.

8. REDRUM MURDER
Mirror Image Non-Mirror Image

9. Bone-conducted sound transmission
– vibrations within your head that are
perceived as a lower frequency pitch.
Air-conducted sound transmission –
vibrations outside of your head that are
perceived as a higher frequency pitch.
Common concerns –“HOW DO I SOUND?”
I sounded so
much better
in my head!

10. 3 TAKE-AWAYS
1. you're not crazy for thinking that you
look and sound different on camera
2. you can get used to your unfamiliar
look/sound
3. others are used to it already

11. Lighting & Camerawork –
Avoiding the next Blair Witch Project
Hi, class!

12. Fill your face with light from all sides.

13. Use more than 1 light/bounce boards
Image Sources: Theonlysilentbob, converted to SVG by tiZom (Own work) [Public
domain], via Wikimedia Commons

14. Selfie Lights
Without Selfie Light With Selfie Light

15. Place your camera at or above eye level.
Hi, class!
Image Source: Terry Goss [GFDL, CC-BY-SA-3.0 or CC BY 2.5], via
Wikimedia Commons
Image Source: By Roger Kastel [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

16. Practice
1. Get comfortable in front of
the camera
2. Determine best lighting
and camera angles
3. Look for technical
problems
Image Source: theNerdPatrol, Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)

17. Using Canvas to Practice
Advantages:
• Is simple to use
• Stores the video within Canvas
• Allows you to review and re-
record
Disadvantages:
• No video editing
• Can’t choose video thumbnail

18. Using Canvas to Practice – Page

19. Using Canvas to Practice – Quiz

20. Using Canvas to Practice – Discussion

21. Finding the Motivation
value + confidence = motivation
“How can I feel
confident in front
of the camera and
producing my own
videos?”
“What value
is there in
making
video?”

22. Poll everywhere:
Do you feel comfortable with the entire video production process?
(capture, editing, captions, and more)

23. Best Practices
Outline
Advantages:
• Tone becomes more casual
and thus more relatable.
Disadvantages:
• More time will be spent
captioning later.
• Might miss information you
wanted to share.
Script
Advantages:
• A completed script for captioning.
• All points are covered in the exact
way you want.
Disadvantages:
• May feel less natural than how
you would teach in a classroom
setting.
Prepare an outline or write your entire script.

24. Video Captions and Transcripts
Make sure your video is accessible to all users
(including students with disabilities, ESL students, and
students who prefer reading over watching). Some
helpful tools include:
• Canvas/Amara - free but requires videos be
uploaded to Canvas
• YouTube - free but requires videos be uploaded to
YouTube
• Mobile Voice Recognition (such as Android's
Google Keyboard)
• Others: Dragon Dictation, Rev, 3Play Media

25. Keep the video short (somewhere between 4-6 minutes in
length).
Advantages:
• Maintains student engagement and keeps the video focused
on a specific topic (one they can search for more easily later
on).
• Don’t need to record for lengthy periods of time (and
increase risk of making a mistake)
Best Practices

26. Video Ideas
http://zombie.msu.edu/
https://youtu.be/aTA6Kw_0UGM

27. Video Ideas
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29. Video Ideas
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30. Video Ideas
https://youtu.be/2suY9h7xnKg