Dick Moore (sometime collaborator, friend, and Trustee of ALT) writes a practical and insight-rich "how to" about making short instructional videos on his Tools and Taxonomy blog. It is just this kind of useful material that gets lost (i.e. is not written) when people with knowhow to share take the easy way out and write performative snippets rather than thought-through pieces. (I am as guilty as the next person in this respect.)
Whether next year's new year resolution will be easy to live up to is another question.
Nice article by Dick Moore.
It is very easy to under estimate the amount of time that will be needed to prepare, 'shoot', edit, upload, test, share (advertise/market), manage feedback and monitor usage.
I like to use Camtasia to create short screencasts which are then uploaded to an internal video system for use by staff and students (we don't use YouTube). Microsoft Photo Story, Microsoft Movie Maker, Premier Elements, Audacity and a good set of headphones with a boom mike are all part of my tool kit.
Posted by: John Doyle | 18/10/2011 at 09:03
Thank you, Dick. I'd like to post this article in an ILT ebulletin we produce at Sheffield College.
Posted by: Julie Hooper | 22/10/2011 at 18:48
Julie
You are more than welcome, if you are interested in Kindle technollogy I have been hacking around with some other cool stuff you can do with it. If its making small videos then feel free.
Posted by: Dick Moore | 23/10/2011 at 19:17