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Film Your Own Videos for Beginners

Online Earth Sci Course
How to Film Your Own Videos at Home for the Beginner [click on photo]
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The Desk Shot: Easy Way to Film Work-on-Paper, such as:
- math problems,
- drawing isolines
- drawing profiles
- using S and P wave chart
- using the ref tables
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Equipment and Teacher-at-the-Board Shot
Using YouTube Auto-Translate to Help ELL Students (link)
Tips for making your own videos
  • Sound quality is too often overlooked.  Clear, loud audio is extremely important in the videos you make.
    • Be sure to ​speak clearly and loudly
    • The built-in microphones on cameras/phones are pretty good these days.  But if you want improved sound, use a basic microphone.  
      • I like this simple clip-on ("lavalier") mic:  Sony ECMCS3 ($20) 
      • ​​Note: iPhones and iPads require special microphones with "3 rings" on the jack (called TRRS).  Links to these types of mics:  clip on ($15) or directional mic ($60)
  • YouTube is a great source for How-Tos on making videos/using YouTube.  
  • ​Resolution overview: 
    • 1080 is HD , Blue-Ray quality.  Many phones film in 1080 these days.  This resolution is often overkill and can take up valuable space on your devices and increase upload/transfer times.
    • 720 is also HD, DVD quality.  High quality video.
    • 480 is OK but far from great ; the lowest “acceptable” for teaching
  • I always push teachers to avoid creating screen casts.  Getting yourself somehow visible in the video is preferred, even if it's just your hands.
    • Personal Ideology:  We need to use video to help us make a human connection.  So many trends in technology skew toward removing the human element.  We need to buck that trend and work to keep the humanness in educational videos.​ ​
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    • Video Best practices
    • ELL - YouTube Auto-translate
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