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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: • [email protected] • Twitter and Facebook: @PNCOLT• http://www.pnc.edu/distance for all workshop notes, links, and training needs
Thanks!