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Best Practices for Pre-Recorded videos
- Limit video recordings to 6-8 minutes
- Segment lengthy topics sub-points to record separately
- Write a script or outline for prepared content
- Determine key points; deliver them concisely
- Extend longevity for lecture content intended for reuse by avoiding: references to current events, dates, page numbers, the weather, etc.
Best Practices for Live Stream and In-Class Lecture Capture
- Be intentional about addressing both audiences - the face-to-face students and the students joining by live stream
- Look at the camera regularly to engage your remote students
- Plan how you will Include remote students in class activities and discussion
- Frame yourself in the camera so that your remote students can see (at a minimum) your face and shoulders
- When there is a class discussion turn the camera so that it streams the face-to-face students
- Do all you can to get good audio quality of yourself and the in-class students
- Share slides, documents and/or your screen through Zoom
- Project the Zoom screen in the classroom so that the face-to-face students can see the remote students
- Strive to treat your remote students and face-to-face students as equal members of the learning community
Examples of Use:
- Course lecture content
- Guest speakers
- Interviews
- Discussions
- Demonstrations
- Weekly communication
- Summaries of forums, assignments, blog posts, wikis, etc.
- Video contributions to assignments or forums by students
- Live stream and in-class lecture capture
Apps and Equipment
- Cameras
- Canon video camera available for checkout from the BU Library
- Camera apps on smartphones
- For webcam recordings
- Windows Camera App
- Quicktime (Mac)
- Zoom
- Webcam and VLC for in-class recording
- See Tips for Recording Audio for suggested microphones
- Editing
- Windows Video Editor (PC)
- iMovie (Mac and iOS)
Locations:
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- For pre-recorded slide presentations, audio and video faculty may reserve the Voice Over Booth (ANC265) using this calendar link. It is equipped with a PC, webcam and lighting.
- For live stream and in-class lecture capture faculty can use the Webcam and VLC on the classroom instructor workstation.
Setting
- Ensure that the place you are shooting will remain quiet
- Avoid settings that easily echo
- Static backgrounds make cuts between clips less distracting
- Keep the background simple so viewers are not distracted from the subject
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- Edit your footage as needed
Step Three
For Pre-Recorded Video
- Upload your finished video file (.mp4, .mov) to Youtube. (YouTube upload tutorial)
- Once in YouTube, copy the URL or embed code and add it in Moodle using the URL resource, embedding it in a Moodle page, or by linking it in a text box
For Live Stream and In-Class Lecture Capture
- Live stream and record using Zoom
- Stream the recording from Zoom in Moodle