Video Archiving Project 2008
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Project leader: Holly Parker TechCat Jacob Klein
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I was Nicole Colston TechCAT and teaching assistant this fall(2008) for her Speech 11 class and Environmental Communication course. This project documentation purpose is to help other that have similar classroom goals.
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Why Video?
What is the purpose of filming in the classroom?
- Self review:
In speech classes video taping is really important because it help people who are learning to speak without
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- Most people only need to watch themselves stumble around your words a few time to remember not to do it next time they make a speech.
In SPCH11 and Environmental Communication we offered extra credit for writing a blog entry for reviewing there own speech.
- Taping speeches prevents cheating:
Keeping documentation of speeches keep people from copying old speeches from pervasive classes.
Why Blackboard?
Blackboard is the best way to deliver information to student. It is a secure and easy way to deliver personalized content to each individual student. In SPCH11 and Environmental Communication we made folders for each student and placed videos of their class speeches inside of the folders.
What tools do you need for video recording?
At the least you need:
- a camera
- batteries
- a tripod
- flash memory
- a charger
- a computer.
This semester we used a Sanyo Xciti Camera that Steve had kindly donated to the class. It was very nice to use because it recorded good looking video with a small file size. Also it recorded directly to mpeg format which meant that I could upload to blackboard with any conversion. The only problem with this camera was it batteries... The camera batteries sometimes would not last the entire class. Also the camera it was not possible to have the camera plugged in and be filming easily.
We also a had a JVC hard disk camera that we used as back up. This camera a large hard drive built in and could store large amounts of video (30 hours of HD or 120 hours low quality video). It also had a card slot that would write on mircoSD card. I would use my cellphone microSD card to record videos on to when we were recording with this camera. The JVC camera had on major draw back though... I didn't record in mpeg format.
Flash memory was the recording media that we used most heavily this semester. Flash media is cheep, easy to use and can be used for many purposes other then filming. Most computers have flash drive that or you can purchase a usb flash drive macs and other computer that don't have flash drives cheaply ($5-$30).
A guild to purchasing flash memory
I would recommended Flip Cameras theflip.com/ to people planing to buy a camera for classroom use. They are really nice to use because they are so simple: press the big red button to start... press it again to stop. The record on to a sd card flash memory and they also come with a flexible desk tripod stand.
We didn't not use any HD Tape Cameras during this semester.
Techniques for recording in the Class room
set it up and let them present in front of the camera
Editing
If you use the
No editing is better.
Higher end video cameras tend to not make file that are easily compatible with blackboard. If the camera films in .mod use MPEG Streamclip to transform you file into mpg files. You may also have to buy and download a avi component to quicktime.
Organizing Files on your computer and backing up video files
What is the best file organization of system for you home computer?
How big is the average video file?
It depends on the way that you filmed it. Video can can be as big as you want it: HD can be 100mb per minute. Video can also be really small: .5mb per minute or smaller.
Posting Online
There is much conflicting information about where people should be posting video.
Posting on Blackboard
posting video files:
Josh at Presidium (ticket 611-6044) said the best way to post videos online is to attach it in an item so that students can download it and watch it with out streaming. He reasoned that it would be better for student to
Make a folder for videos and then make a folder for each video.
MPEG tool Make an a new item > Add MPEG/AVI content > browse (find your file on you desktop) > press submit and wait > When your video loads press submit
Quicktime tool
Make an a new item > Add quicktime content > browse (find your file on you desktop) > press submit and wait > When your video loads press submit
Posting with Password on the internet
This is something that we are going to have explore more because the blackboard administrator are discouraging people for posting large files (video) on blackboard. I am not sure why this is the case since we have been posting videos all semester with out any trouble.
The alternitve route to video posting outside of blackboard might look like this:
uploading to files to UVM ftp sever Zoo.uvm.edu and the password protecting them with htpasswd for each student. Then make link in the courses blakboard page so that they could find the page with the videos on them.
Personally I think that posting videos outside of blackboard would double work of posting videos online for students.
To use the UVM ftp server or ZOO download a FTP program from [software.uvm.edu software.uvm.edu]. The server address is zoo.uvm.edu and the name and password is your UVM netid.
Jacob's Fall 2008 Project
Speech 11
Environmental Communication
In Environmental Communication we used Blackboard Blogs for homework. Student were to read pdf files that were posted inside the blog and answer a few questions on the with private blog entries. We found that students stayed more evolved in the class then then in the other speech courses we were teaching.
Debate Team
Another Project that this spun off the initial blackboard work was to make wiki for the debate team. http://debate.uvm.edu/wikibooks is the address of the new wiki that I made for them. I used mediawiki, htaccess, and LDAP to make the wiki open to student input and closed to other debate teams at other school.
