Judy's Notes from the Video Retreat
How Video Production Affects Student Engagement
Reporting on Guo, et al., 2014, a massive study of 4 MOOCs and student engagement with videos.
- Videos filmed in 3 ways: office desk, TV studio, live classrooms
- How video production correlates with engagement
- They looked at 4 main properties:
- Length of video
- Speaking rate
- Video type (tutorial, lecture)
- Production style: slides, code, khan-type, classroom, studio, office desk)
- Findings, recommendations:
- Shorter videos are more engaging (no longer than 6 min median)
- BROOKE: If you're still watching this video, send me an email that says "rabbit" for an extra credit point.
- KEITH: Pause at 6 minutes, have an assessment or take a break, this is what you should have learned at this point….break into chunks
- Break up video into smaller (<6 min) chunks with assessments or other things in between
- A talking head is more engaging (engagement decreased faster over time with just PPT)
- A more personal feel (direct eye contact, student-directed)
- Broke up monotony
- When & how often to switch
- Try picture in picture
- Khan-style tutorials are more engaging (tablet drawing)
- Lectures planned for recording are better than those adapted from videos of class lectures (Pre-planning works)
- In settings you can bookmark, just write the time at a certain point and it creates a link
- Tell them to Scroll down to comments for the sections to click on
- Invest in pre-production
- Speaking rate affects engagement (engage more when instructors speak faster)
- Don’t speak faster, increase enthusiasm
- http://sixminutes.dlugan.com/speaking-rate/ Links to an external site.
- Edit out pauses
- Students engage differently with lectures and tutorials
- Rewatch tutorials more frequently than lectures
- Add bookmarks to signal transitions
Wrap up
- Isolation is the biggest problem with online student engagement
- Short intro video that shows you (introduce lecture, online activity, then do screen capture/narration)
- Teach students that online entertainment is different than online learning. We need to educate them on that. This is how you watch my videos. Taking notes, have paper next to them, pause and write questions in their margins. Lean forward, it will be different.
- If using someone else’s videos, you should make a quick video intro.
Chris has put some videos online for you to view/use:
http://shoreline.box.com/retreatvideos Links to an external site.
Recording in Panopto
Stephanie has made Canvas classroom for her panopto videos, then uploads videos to YouTube
Instructions for how to record---We're going to make or post a link to a video
Notes about recording:
- Capture PPT doesn’t allow her to highlight/interact,
- Some good headphones:
- Microsoft Life Chat headphone (about $40)
- Logitech stand microphone abt $15 sits on desk (USB audio)
- Testing your audio, make sure it goes into the red a little bit when you test it.
- Select "Record Screen" if you want to be able to highlight or write on your PPG
- Stephanie uses a stylus on touch screen Windowsw 8 computer, capturing the writing on the screen.
- Set up your PPT in presentation mode, then use these controls to turn on./off the recording:
- F8 starts recording
- F9 pauses recording
- F10 ends recording
NOTE TO SELF: Schedule Stephanie & Amy’s presentation for SeLC, Post my student guide for Panopto recording
Possible tutorial videos:
- How to share on YouTube
- Change to HD 720p then click Apply (re-encodes)
Download Podcast
How to upload videos to YouTube channel
How to make a YouTube channel
How to Edit Panopto videos
- Use handles
- Go to Helpin Panopto Recordings Video help, basic Editing Overview