The purpose of this video was to teach students how to find the volume of a cone and of several different types of pyramid.
Recording the video was different. I have been working on keeping my left hand out of my pocket while teaching as of late (a habit I've had since spending dozens of hours in front of a chalkboard pondering over organic chemistry syntheses in college). It was fun to watch myself teach and be able to critique myself for a change. It's something that I'll have to start doing more frequently. A nice check and something that I can turn into a digital portfolio. The uploading process was interesting as well. The original video file was 2.5 GB. I used windows movie maker to shrink the file down to 65 mb and then uploaded it. Video and sound quality were diminished, but it fit and only took ten minutes to upload here at the hotel.
As the video won't start converting for another hour and a half, I think I'll post again with the video later tonight!
That's one large video. Using Movie Maker to shrink and upload seems to have worked beautifully. Your resulting video streamed smoothly. Since you 'own' this post, you can go back and Embed the video here; or add your text from this post into the other one that contains the video.
ReplyDeleteGreat solution. Quality came out just fine. One of our activities will be to video an 'Intro. to a new Topic', which is what you've accomplished here. So, this will end up being a perfect video for that task. Time permitting, I'd also like you to video a short warm-up session (eg., the first 5 to 10 minutes of class) where students may be working on exercises or whatever you generally do prior to your anticipatory set and Intro to New topic. Thanks for sharing.
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