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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 maher_au »

gnicholas wrote: post #49
moooo99 wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 hopef…

If you already have powerpoint, try that.

Camtasia is a licenced ($300) tool, but has almost fool proof editing and post production

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Post by carlosperate »

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’…

You can also create a "public facing" user account that doesn't have any private info or logins. That's useful to for public talks and presentations.

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Post by maher_au »

syndacks wrote: post #7

OP, I'd be curious to hear more how you structure your lessons for an online environment. This post mostly details how you [technically] teach online classes. For the many teachers who are now in a remote environment, what should they know about online learning vs traditional classroom learning?

I use this process to design learning online learning experiences.

I think it gives a nice balance of being lead with prepared resources and engaged with rapid feedback and peer learning to solve hard tasks.

https://figshare.com/articles/Collaborative_Learning_Framewo...

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Post by Seirdy »

wdroz wrote: post #58

I 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.

Nice; this could combine well with pretty much any videoconf software (e.g., Jitsi). Just one URL and everybody's seeing your OBS recording!

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Post by knolan »

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’…

Us mere mortals can just enable Do Not Disturb once you know the gesture incantation.

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Post by pdm55 »

arthurcolle wrote: post #11

What apps exist to allow for directional "paper" where both (say, given an iPad) can do collaborative writing, if you're doing something like math which needs birectional communication? My father runs a tutoring business and most students want to move to skyping but I know my father wants to be able to write on something (paper would be ideal, but obviously not practical given the current environment, but an iPad wou…

Sal's software (2012)

https://www.onlineuniversities.com/blog/2012/04/de-mystifyin...

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Post by RMPR »

z3t4 wrote: post #55
RMPR wrote: post #51

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?

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.

This seems interesting, I'll try during the week-end, thanks.

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Post by zmk_ »

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…

She can use zoom to do that with the benefit of students seeing your wife. Otherwise if she is using _PowerPoint_ she can record her presentation with voice (only) in PowerPoint (slide show > record slide show)

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Post by solresol »

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’…

(Sorry for the weirdness of replying in two different places...)

If I understand what you are doing correctly, in Zoom you will either select the camera with the VM window in it (which OBS is creating a virtual camera for), or you select the real camera. So the attendees for the session either see you, or they see the content: but not both at the same time.

Is that right?

Unless you run OBS in the virtual machine, and join the Zoom session from the virtual machine too, in which case OBS is unnecessary.

And if you do that then I'm not sure what that's gaining over just sharing one window of your desktop (the VM window) in Zoom.

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