“Dabba hai Dabba, Uncle ka TV Dabba”. (Translated : Uncle’s TV is just a box)
Trifling with my pen, I thought of that commercial ad where even the kids seem to comprehend the importance of quality in videos? Funny it is but reveals a daunting truth about the importance of video quality. With that in our minds, let me proceed to tell you a whole lot about video quality to teach online.
Videos adds another dimension to learning. It makes the learning process more effective than reading the same content as a text. It brings in an altogether new perspective that a student can make use of in their learning experience.
Video lessons prepared to combine charts, slides, photos, graphics, narration, screencasts, screenshots, on-screen captions, music, and live video takes the learning to another level. Such videos make a deeper impact and strike to mind harder than while reading the mere text.
There are a number of authoring tools to edit the videos captured so that you can create an amazing videos. The two ways of making the video are,
Video Lessons can be created on Learnyst Course builder. You can upload your own videos of any size or embed it from YouTube, Vimeo or Dacast. Follow the simple steps mentioned below to create video lessons.
Login to Learnyst as Admin and go to Admin Dashboard and click on Courses. On creating a new course or opening an existing course you go to course builder.
In course builder, add a Section to your course. Then, click on Lesson button or drag and drop it into the section.
In Lesson Builder, you can upload your videos or you can also embed the YouTube, Vimeo or dacast videos to create video lessons.
Browse and Upload your video and click on Save. Your video lessons will be created successfully.
Screencasting means the digital recording of a computer screen. Also known as video screen capture. It is often done to teach online or share the ideas online.
Here is a How-To video of Learnyst for your reference.
There are a lot of free and paid video recording tools available on the internet. Some of the well-known tools to mention are Camtasia, Camstudio, Opentest
comes along with a very simple video recorder. To capture the screen, all you have to do is set the area of the screen which needs to be captured, which is a simple drag-the-line feature and click on Rec. It also has some good function key shortcuts. Though you can use it for video recording also, since it has webcam record feature, I would recommend you to use a better camera for video recording and then edit on Camtasia studio for your online course video recordings. Because video recording on good camera makes a lot of difference than recording on webcam. It is solid content you are building for your online course after all. Check on
if you prefer totally open sourced option.
Screen recorder tool through which you can record screen, mic and camera seamlessly. You can download recorded video and upload anywhere you like.
You can use the Opentest to capture your lessons which can typically contain screen capture of PowerPoint slides. Once you are done with video editing you can upload video as well as PowerPoint. Students can go through video first time and run through slides during revision