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Tips & Tricks for Making Your Moodle Video. By: Sara Zachary Thompson & Jenny Owens. Uses for Spalding.present.me. Creating a welcome video Going over the syllabus Creating lectures Providing feedback Other creative ideas??. Initial Preparation.
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Tips & Tricks for Making Your Moodle Video By: Sara Zachary Thompson & Jenny Owens
Uses for Spalding.present.me • Creating a welcome video • Going over the syllabus • Creating lectures • Providing feedback • Other creative ideas??
Initial Preparation • Check to make sure you have a spalding.present.me account • Have a plan or basic outline of what you want to cover in your video • It is necessary to provide a transcript of all videos in order to UDL compliant • If you’re using PowerPoint, make the slides in advance and upload them into spalding.present.me • *Note: Do not record audio files in PowerPoint, as this can cause issues. Instead audio can be recorded directly into spalding.present.me • Make sure you have good internet connection
Environmental Factors • Pay attention to your surroundings!! • What is the probability of getting interrupted? • Is the environment too noisy? • What is your backdrop? • Notice any clutter in the space • How is the lighting? • Make sure to avoid backlighting
Personal Factors • Dress professionally • Make eye contact with the camera • Avoid reading directly from notes • BE YOURSELF!!!!
Ideas for Increasing Engagement • Keep lectures to 30 minutes or less • Add in props or visual stimuli • PowerPoints with pictures add an extra visual • Do not add too much text per slide • Be enthusiastic (versus a monotone voice) • BE CREATIVE!
Adding Screenshots • If you would like to show a screenshot of your computer screen: • Get your computer to the page you would like to screenshot • Hit the print screen button (PrtScr) on a PC or command-shift-3 on a mac • The screenshot will create a file, which can be pasted into a PowerPoint slide
Making Your First Video • You’ve signed up, logged in and are ready to make your first video! • Click on the Create tab at the top of the page, and you’ll be taken to the upload page. • Choose the type of video you would like to create. • Click Proceed and you can then choose your file to upload. • Supported files: PowerPoint, PDF (you can export from Keynote and Prezi to PDF), word document, or Google doc.
Making Your First Video • When the file has uploaded, you’ll be taken to a new tab while your file converts so it works with Spalding.present.me. • Once it’s converted, you’ll see a green Record button appear to the right. • Click Record and the slides will be loaded into the recorder application (recording has not begun yet). • The website will do some checks and ask for permission to use your webcam and microphone (click allow).
Doing a “Test Run” • Say a few words just to make sure your microphone is working. • You’ll see the meter on the right hand side move up and down as you talk. • Look at the backdrop and your positioning in the camera to know exactly what can be seen • Make sure PowerPoints are downloaded properly and that you know how to go to different slides • Use the right & left arrow keys to move your slides forwards and back
Making Your First Video • Click the red Record button and you’ll get a 5 second countdown recording starts. • When you’ve either reached the last slide, or are ready to stop, click the Stop button and you will stop recording. • If you’re on the last slide, you can also click ‘Next’ and that will stop the recording too. • Click ‘End & Review’ and you will be taken to the Publish page.
Review Your Work • After you stop recording, make sure to review your video to ensure that you are happy with the outcome • Re-check the following: • Did you say everything you meant to? • How does the backdrop look? • Is the sound loud enough? • Is the video engaging?
Example Video • https://spalding.present.me/embed/922/400/336
Embedding to Moodle • Once the video is created, click on the Embed option • Select the middle size on the next screen that appears. Then select Copy to Clipboard • Go to the course where you wish to load the video • Click on Add an Activity or Resource
Embedding to Moodle • Use the radio button to select Label and click on Add. • Click on HTML in the toolbar and add any text you like then click Ctrl V at the same time to copy the code from your clipboard. • Click Update on the lower left-hand side of the pop-up window • Click on Save and Return to Course