Instructional videos

Yesterday I made my first instructional video.

 

The topic was how students submit a task in Moodle. This is part of the FAQ blog page I made about Moodle. Some time ago I created a PowerPoint-presentation about the topic and hopefully to make a video with sound is a further improvement of the presentation. To make the video I used Camtasia Relay a program for screen capturing. The staff at Nesna University College use the same program so I found it useful for practise. These are the features of the program.

The program is easy to use, you just start the Power Point-presentation, agree to start recording and then you are on.

Well, is it that easy? There are a few pitfalls...

 1) Check the sound, especially your microphone. You can adjust the microphone both in the program and on your computer. Open the control panel and choose Sound (lyd). If you adjust the bullet amplifier (mikrofonforsterkning) on your computer the recording gets louder.

2) I also had problems with the computer "hanging" and when I restarted the computer I had to answer update questions from the computer and start recording all over again.
3) You should plan, more or less, carefully what to say so the audience don't have to listen to ehh's and long pauses when you don't say a thing.
4) Don't make the presentation to long unless you have a remarkable interesting subject.
5) When you are finished recording you can submit it to the server and get a video/Flash and the possibility to download to iphone/ipod or mp3. To give access to my video in this format I had to download the Ipod/iphone version, I could not use Flash.