I've been sitting here working on my project for the last 4 and 1/2 hours and I'm waiting for my tutorials to be ready. I'll get to that later.
I followed my advice from the first video I made and created my presentation in sequential order, paused at the beginnings of slides, and I even figured out how to import the Keynote directly into Explain Everything! But, I wouldn't do it again. It had negative effects on the formatting of the slides and made ugly white lines across the images. I think screen caps are the way to go. As long as there aren't too many to make, I think it will make the presentation look better.
So, the 4.5 hours thing. That's a lot of time on the back end and I hope it's worth it. I will wait to flip all of my instruction until I can determine if it works. The time it takes to produce these videos is long. It took me about 20 minutes to make the Keynote with the grammar lesson. While that was happening, I used Handbrake to convert the DVD lesson from our textbook into an MP4. Then I had to import the MP4 into iMovie to cut out the pieces I didn't need. All of that happened concurrently, so no big deal. 20 minutes. From there, I exported the new, shorter MP4 to Dropbox so I could access it on my iPad from EE. I added it to the last slide, then recorded the presentation. That took maybe another 20 minutes, so now we're up to 40 minutes total. The next part is by far my biggest complaint. The (spoiler alert) first time I sent my finished EE presentation to my camera roll. That took well over an hour. When it was finally done, I previewed it and noticed that the textbook video wasn't there. The sound, yes. But no video. The second time I tried to export directly to YouTube, thinking that might be quicker. No such luck. And so, I'm sitting here waiting. It's a good thing that I have a lot to do in the meantime.
And so, my questions:
UPDATE: 30 minutes later, uploaded to YouTube
UPDATE: Tried to do the second video, waited over 3 hours and EE crashed at the upload stage. 2 hours and 45 minutes later and it's done. My guess is the EE compression is weird. Next time, I'd export the slide show to iMovie and add the grammar video there too (unless Wendy is right-see comments). But now that I think about it, I could probably do the whole thing in iMovie. Oh well, you know what they say, "Time wasted is time well-spent." Oh wait, nobody says that.
I followed my advice from the first video I made and created my presentation in sequential order, paused at the beginnings of slides, and I even figured out how to import the Keynote directly into Explain Everything! But, I wouldn't do it again. It had negative effects on the formatting of the slides and made ugly white lines across the images. I think screen caps are the way to go. As long as there aren't too many to make, I think it will make the presentation look better.
So, the 4.5 hours thing. That's a lot of time on the back end and I hope it's worth it. I will wait to flip all of my instruction until I can determine if it works. The time it takes to produce these videos is long. It took me about 20 minutes to make the Keynote with the grammar lesson. While that was happening, I used Handbrake to convert the DVD lesson from our textbook into an MP4. Then I had to import the MP4 into iMovie to cut out the pieces I didn't need. All of that happened concurrently, so no big deal. 20 minutes. From there, I exported the new, shorter MP4 to Dropbox so I could access it on my iPad from EE. I added it to the last slide, then recorded the presentation. That took maybe another 20 minutes, so now we're up to 40 minutes total. The next part is by far my biggest complaint. The (spoiler alert) first time I sent my finished EE presentation to my camera roll. That took well over an hour. When it was finally done, I previewed it and noticed that the textbook video wasn't there. The sound, yes. But no video. The second time I tried to export directly to YouTube, thinking that might be quicker. No such luck. And so, I'm sitting here waiting. It's a good thing that I have a lot to do in the meantime.
And so, my questions:
- Will it be worth it? Time and assessments will tell.
- How do you feel about me taking the video from the DVD and putting it into these lessons? Is it fair, educational use? I'm uploading the videos on YouTube, but I'm keeping them on the AES account and I'm making the videos unlisted to limit the "findability" of them. We purchased the DVDs from the publisher to show in class, but what happens when I want that part of class to happen at home?
- Any suggestions to speed up my process?
UPDATE: 30 minutes later, uploaded to YouTube
UPDATE: Tried to do the second video, waited over 3 hours and EE crashed at the upload stage. 2 hours and 45 minutes later and it's done. My guess is the EE compression is weird. Next time, I'd export the slide show to iMovie and add the grammar video there too (unless Wendy is right-see comments). But now that I think about it, I could probably do the whole thing in iMovie. Oh well, you know what they say, "Time wasted is time well-spent." Oh wait, nobody says that.
Hi Jason!
ReplyDeleteI'm another COETAILER who has been flipping my classes for the past year. For my course 2 project I've been checking into the copyright laws and fair use with respect to screen casting, so I've been reading everyone's posts that I can find regarding these topics. You asked how we felt about you taking the DVD lesson from your textbook and putting it into your lessons. I actually think you are violating copyright law by ripping it and then modifying it (by cutting out the parts you don't want) (if someone else knows better, please correct me!). Also, the IT director at my school has advised me to not post anything to YouTube as an unlisted video because he says it is still a searchable url. You are also now making it completely public by posting it here on this site, so now the audience is beyond your own classes. Is your school nonprofit or for-profit? I've discovered, that Fair Use for educational use only applies to "nonprofit educational institutions" (unfortunately I work at a for-profit school, so I really need to be careful). The simple way around this is to contact the textbook publisher and request permission for what you are doing. Again, I'm still only learning about this myself so I'm interested in what others end up posting here as well. Good luck with your flipping! I can tell you that from my experience it really has been worth it and I'm planning to continue it in the future.
Thanks for the input Wendy. My gut instinct is telling me those things too. Maybe I will email the publisher and see what they have to say.
ReplyDeleteLooks good, and I sure appreciate all of your hard work. I have produced only a couple of vids for my flipped instruction, though. I tend to search for student or teacher produced content, review it, and possibly assign it to my students. Sometimes it works the way I want it to, sometimes it doesn't. The main problem I have run into is consistency in the students doing the viewing at home. It seems more traditional homework is easier for them to wrap their heads around. Maybe I need to go ahead and create a body of such instruction of my own, hoping that's more motivational for the students. I really like the philosophy and it has freed me up to spend more one on one time with students. I use my own images and sound for anything I do produce, because I don't want to worry about copyright infringement.
ReplyDeleteHi everyone, please see my latest post about how my first unit went. Thanks!
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