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Re: How I Teach Classes Remotely

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Post by movedx »

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…

I do exactly this. OBS is, in my opinion, what you want. It's worth learning for this problem alone.

In short: get OBS installed and started. Then add the web cam as a camera source to the default scene. Then load up PowerPoint, Google Slides, whatever, and add that window as a "Windows Source". Make sure the web camera is above the "Window Source" in the list of sources - they're like layers on a cake. You can edit the web camera source in the live preview to then be a box in one of the lower corners (this is called picture-in-picture).

I recommend crafting the slides to support having a picture-in-picture setup.

Here's a (very large, sorry) example lecture I did for Chester University in England: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1xT31CU8Lfob88FxaDXAVWy-uXC... -- skip to about 3-4 minutes in to see how I'm presenting the slides, then jump to about 22m in to see how I present a terminal for programming needs.

Reach out and let me know if I can help you or your wife with this. I'm keen to help anyone having to go remote for this sort of thing.

Re: How I Teach Classes Remotely

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Post by crazygringo »

k__ wrote: post #77
krtkush wrote: post #74

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No its is not. You can still be tracked; I have personally experienced it. Incognito mode is for keeping your browsing history "clean" on your end. So that if your friend or relative uses your computer, he/she does not stumble upon stuff you don't wont to see.

Ah, okay Somehow I never had an issue with that.

To be clear, someone doesn't need to actively search your browsing history.

It's especially to prevent it from showing up in autocomplete. Imagine you tell your mother to look up a plane ticket on Priceline, she types "p" into the address bar, and all of a sudden 8 different porn videos show up as the top 8 autocomplete suggestions.

Now if she's polite she probably won't say anything and you'll never know. But...

Re: How I Teach Classes Remotely

#93

Post by knolan »

movedx wrote: post #86
knolan wrote: post #65

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

DND doesn't protect you from tabbing to a window with sensitive content in it. Using a VM does.

I personally don’t see the use case, I can close all sensitive tabs or documents. But if that’s a problem then fine, perhaps an edge case though.

Re: How I Teach Classes Remotely

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Post by bookmarkaccount »

knolan wrote: post #82
sime wrote: post #79

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Which as you prompted me to discover, is Option+clicking on the notifications panel icon in the menu bar to toggle DND for anyone wondering. Of course some apps annoyingly ignore the DND setting (I'm looking at you MS Teams).

You can also swipe in from the right edge of your trackpad and then pull the notification pane down. Much like the hidden search in iOS.

I think that is how you access a DND toggle on mac OS as well.

Re: How I Teach Classes Remotely

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Post by ChristiGarcia »

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…

I use zoom to teach. He can have his slides up through screen sharing and with a touch screen laptop write directly on the screen. In addition, I use a program called Nearpod which is free right now. He could see his students working on problems in real time.

Re: How I Teach Classes Remotely

#96

Post by ghaff »

gnicholas wrote: post #46
worthless-trash wrote: post #40

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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...

Even as someone who does a lot of presenting to audiences, I find recording video of myself speaking all by myself is really awkward. I suppose it's something one can get used to but I find it very hard. My usual approach is to do a quick video introduction to humanize it and then just talk over slides.

Re: How I Teach Classes Remotely

#97

Post by Vrondi »

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…

Zoom can do this. When she sets up her Zoom rooms, they can be set to record automatically. Then, she can share her whole screen or just one single app she has open with her students during the session. So she can share her PowerPoint with them, but they still hear and see her video thumbnail, and then after the session is over, Zoom will process the recording for her. No need for any other software. It may take Zoom a day to process the recording, but she will eventually get a link inside Zoom she can share as needed. This is all built into Zoom. No other tools are needed.

Re: How I Teach Classes Remotely

#98

Post by k__ »

crazygringo wrote: post #92
k__ wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ah, okay Somehow I never had an issue with that.

To be clear, someone doesn't need to actively search your browsing history. It's especially to prevent it from showing up in autocomplete. Imagine you tell your mother to look up a plane ticket on Priceline, she types "p" into the address bar, and all of a sudden 8 different porn videos show up as the top 8 autocomplete suggestions. Now if she's polite she probably won't say anything and you'll never know. But...

Sure, I understand that issue.

I just never had a problem with my family or friends to see that I watch porn.

Re: How I Teach Classes Remotely

#99

Post by fbristow »

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…

I made a video that describes the setup that you're looking for to help my own department get set up with OBS, you're welcome to check it out here if you're interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNFiBVWhWYI

Re: How I Teach Classes Remotely

#100

Post by jashmenn »

vhiremath4 wrote: post #47

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

I LOVE Loom and am a paying customer.

But your current versions have one critical flaw: you'll lose data if you're on a spotty internet connection. After a month of having to email your support to "restore my videos" I just gave up and switched to using OBS and Dropbox to share these videos.

I love, love your product. But without a more reliable upload (or being able to access my recording locally) it's too big of a gamble to use on a regular basis.

Any chance fixing this (for spotty connection folks) is on the roadmap? I'd be fine if I could just upload my own videos as well.

In any case I (almost) love your product. I expect you'll be really, really big. It's a good experience overall (when it works).

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