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How I Teach Classes Remotely

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Re: How I Teach Classes Remotely

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Post by solresol »

gnicholas wrote: post #35

My wife is a university professor and is being told she needs to record lectures going forward. I'm wondering how she can easily record a lecture video and then splice in powerpoint slides later. The best I can think is to record yourself on a computer, while flipping through slides on an iPad right next to your screen. Then afterward go through and take screenshots of the Powerpoint and insert them into the video (u…

That's why I do the two system thing (Workspaces for the slides, laptop for my face video). Then I don't even bother editing it afterwards unless I think there's something really important. The recording shows your face in a window because you are speaking, and the content in a big screen.

You just hit the "record" button in Zoom and it works.

This of course makes sense because we were operating remotely; if your wife is teaching in a lecture theatre then that's a different kind of thing. Likewise, if she is creating lectures to be viewed offline, then the cost and effort goes up, and she's now going to be spending all her spare waking hours editing video.

Re: How I Teach Classes Remotely

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Post by reactspa »

movedx wrote: post #13

I commented on the blog post, but: > If you are presenting a computer desktop (e.g. I teach programming classes, so I do a lot of this), then get your IT department to organise an Amazon Workspace for you. Join the conference call from twice — once from your laptop, and once from the Workspaces session. Share the Workspaces screen, not your home laptop. That way, if a message pops up on your screen, the students won’…

Why do you prefer using a VM (instead of using OBS directly in the parent PC)?

Is it mainly to avoid the problem of a message popping up on your screen?

Re: How I Teach Classes Remotely

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Post by moooo99 »

gnicholas wrote: post #35

My wife is a university professor and is being told she needs to record lectures going forward. I'm wondering how she can easily record a lecture video and then splice in powerpoint slides later. The best I can think is to record yourself on a computer, while flipping through slides on an iPad right next to your screen. Then afterward go through and take screenshots of the Powerpoint and insert them into the video (u…

I'm not 100% sure if I understood the problem right, but maybe OBS [1] could be an easier solution. You can use it to record screens and webcam streams. You can layout "scenes" with the video sources and use it while holding to lecture to switch between webcam and screencast. It's usually used for livestreams of all kinds, but works for recording as well.

With my little experience in video editing, I'd say 30-45 min for a whole lecture is very optimistic, so maybe this would be an easier solution.

[1] https://obsproject.com/

Re: How I Teach Classes Remotely

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Post by [deleted] »

solresol wrote: post #41
gnicholas wrote: post #35

My wife is a university professor and is being told she needs to record lectures going forward. I'm wondering how she can easily record a lecture video and then splice in powerpoint slides later. The best I can think is to record yourself on a computer, while flipping through slides on an iPad right next to your screen. Then afterward go through and take screenshots of the Powerpoint and insert them into the video (u…

That's why I do the two system thing (Workspaces for the slides, laptop for my face video). Then I don't even bother editing it afterwards unless I think there's something really important. The recording shows your face in a window because you are speaking, and the content in a big screen. You just hit the "record" button in Zoom and it works. This of course makes sense because we were operating remotely; if your wif…

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Re: How I Teach Classes Remotely

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Post by gnicholas »

worthless-trash wrote: post #40
gnicholas wrote: post #35

My wife is a university professor and is being told she needs to record lectures going forward. I'm wondering how she can easily record a lecture video and then splice in powerpoint slides later. The best I can think is to record yourself on a computer, while flipping through slides on an iPad right next to your screen. Then afterward go through and take screenshots of the Powerpoint and insert them into the video (u…

After having done editing, I imagine that 30 minutes is optimistic. Your best bet is to take the low-tech approach and distribute the slides seperately in pdf form.

Yeah, I've done work in iMovie and think it could be done without too much difficulty, so long as no animations are needed (which is not ideal, of course). Part of the reason for having slides big on the screen is that then you can have your face off-camera at times, in case you have to scratch your face or whatever. Being right in front of a high-res camera for 45 mins is not awesome...

Re: How I Teach Classes Remotely

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Post by vhiremath4 »

I would like to plug Loom as well as a way to create asynchronous video messages. You can record anything with it (even meetings or presentations). We currently power over 52,000 companies around the world and our tool is free for education forever. No strings attached.

https://www.loom.com

disclaimer: I'm a founder

Re: How I Teach Classes Remotely

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Post by RMPR »

gnicholas wrote: post #32
movedx wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can still leak sensitive or private information simply by switching to the wrong window during a live stream. There are examples of this happening on Twitch all the time, often requiring the streamer to change a Skype account ID or change their email address.

I work in 3-4 different Spaces on my Mac, and when I do Zoom calls I always populate a new 'space' with all the windows that I'm going to need for the call. Doing that and turning on DND has been pretty reliable for me, but then again I'm not presenting to the world, so it's lower stakes.

This and you can always close or mask all the other windows, or even create a dedicated user for teaching, anyway, a VM seems a bit... overkill.

Re: How I Teach Classes Remotely

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Post by gnicholas »

moooo99 wrote: post #44
gnicholas wrote: post #35

My wife is a university professor and is being told she needs to record lectures going forward. I'm wondering how she can easily record a lecture video and then splice in powerpoint slides later. The best I can think is to record yourself on a computer, while flipping through slides on an iPad right next to your screen. Then afterward go through and take screenshots of the Powerpoint and insert them into the video (u…

I'm not 100% sure if I understood the problem right, but maybe OBS [1] could be an easier solution. You can use it to record screens and webcam streams. You can layout "scenes" with the video sources and use it while holding to lecture to switch between webcam and screencast. It's usually used for livestreams of all kinds, but works for recording as well. With my little experience in video editing, I'd say 30-45 min…

Thanks for sharing this! Can you simultaneously record your screen and your face, and then later splice the two together (while keeping audio synced, preferably)?

To clarify, basically the desire is to be able to sit in front of a computer, look through slides while talking to the camera, and then afterward go through and (easily) choose which segments should show the screen and which should show your face. And hopefully the audio would just auto-sync, so you don't have to fiddle with it to get the lips to line up when it's set to show your face.

Re: How I Teach Classes Remotely

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Post by Angostura »

gnicholas wrote: post #35

My wife is a university professor and is being told she needs to record lectures going forward. I'm wondering how she can easily record a lecture video and then splice in powerpoint slides later. The best I can think is to record yourself on a computer, while flipping through slides on an iPad right next to your screen. Then afterward go through and take screenshots of the Powerpoint and insert them into the video (u…

I work at a large school and have been experimenting with cheap and cheerful solutions. If on Windows 10 check out the built-in Game Bar (designed your let you record games) if on Mac Qicktime will let you record the screen and mic.
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