As a student, I wasn't at first interested in reading this post because of the title, but I ended up opening it anyway, and the first point (krisp.ai) is something so useful that I wonder why I didn't hear about it before, does anyone know a good FOSS alternative?
How I Teach Classes Remotely
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#52As a student, I wasn't at first interested in reading this post because of the title, but I ended up opening it anyway, and the first point (krisp.ai) is something so useful that I wonder why I didn't hear about it before, does anyone know a good FOSS alternative?
For the next 6 months, Krisp is free for all students, teachers, hospital and government workers.
Also, it just went Freemium, comes with 120min/week free noise cancellation.
More here: https://krisp.ai/blog/covid19-response/
(I'm the CEO & Co-Founder)
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#53My 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.
Yeah, Quicktime does seem like a good option if just recording screen with mic audio is desired. I think that there would be some benefit to being able to see the professor at least from time to time, to make the experience more personal. But perhaps this could be accomplished just by having a small photo of the prof in the corner, by the course name or something.
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Yeah, Quicktime does seem like a good option if just recording screen with mic audio is desired. I think that there would be some benefit to being able to see the professor at least from time to time, to make the experience more personal. But perhaps this could be accomplished just by having a small photo of the prof in the corner, by the course name or something.
I use screencast-o-matic, because it is so easy to use and very affordable, to make videos that I upload to Youtube. I have a dynamic microphone, Audio-Technica ATR2100-USB, which has been working well for years.
https://screencast-o-matic.com/tutorial/welcome-to-screencas...
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#55As a student, I wasn't at first interested in reading this post because of the title, but I ended up opening it anyway, and the first point (krisp.ai) is something so useful that I wonder why I didn't hear about it before, does anyone know a good FOSS alternative?
On a unix like computer it should be fairly simple to pipe the audio streem via a filter before sending it to a loopback device.
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
NSTA teachers have been given some advice http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/teaching_now/2020/03/teache... One tip was "Teachers are using the hashtag #virtualschool on Twitter to share resources." Other tips from https://www.edutopia.org/article/what-teachers-china-have-le... were -- Start by continuing to use lessons that are clear and simple, and don’t introduce new programs for teachers and students to learn if yo…
I recall listening on the radio recently to an adult learner describing her positive online experience. She said (1) the collegiate atmosphere was what made it so "wonderful", aided by initial exercises they did which were about cooperating with other students; (2) she liked being able to fit in her learning around being a mother; and (3) doing peer assessment of other students' draft assignments really helped the st…
I have been thinking about the simplest, quickest way to tutor online. It might be some adaption of what I have been doing 1-on-1, face to face. There would usually be some problem that couldn't be worked out in the tutoring session, so I would go home and write out the solution on paper (using pencil), scan it into my computer, put it in OneDrive and send my tutee a link. Anything else took too long.
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#57My 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…
Just use any screen recorder (e.g. QuickTime player on MacOSX can do that). And then arrange your screen in any way you want, e.g. put your slides on it, and maybe some window in the corner which shows the webcam (video of yourself).
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#58I personally use OBS with the v4l2sink plugin to stream into a fake webcam (v4l2loopback). Then you tell [INSERT_YOUR_VIDEOCONF_SOFTWARE] that the dummy webcam is your webcam.
What I like with this approach is that you can fully control your scene.
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#59I 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’…
On a unix like system you can use xvfb to create a virtual display/buffer then open apps in that display, and video-stream or even share it using VNC.
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#60This appears to be a sales post, with a bunch of affiliate links. Perhaps the actual products are good, but the credibility drops substantially as he has monetary incentive to list these things. edit: It seems like the post author is acting in good faith
Sorry about that -- I can change the post to remove them if that would make it more credible. I'll be very surprised if I make any money from them anyway since the target audience (teachers and students) would get krisp for free, for example.
To me, it's unnecessary to say sorry; affiliate links are mentioned, plus it's quite a useful resource.