Lately our curriculum provider has been posting instruction videos for the students on their website. I wanted to figure out what was involved in creating and posting a video on the web. So I brought my video camera to school and taped me going through a key problem after school. I found I had to change the lighting in the classroom and also change the background in my slide because the details were getting washed out in all the white coloring. After recording the video I transfered the information to a DVD like I use to do with soccer games and then copied the files from the DVD to my computer. When I looked at the files they did not seem to fit any file format I recognized. I then tried to import the files into Microsoft Movie Maker and they were not recognized there either. So I determined that I needed to get a different cable that would allow me to connect my camera directly to my computer.
Once I did this I was able to import the video into Microsoft Movie Maker and then upload it to Teacher Tube. When viewing the movie I think I would look at saving it in a lower speed connection format so the video would play without all the pauses for reloads. I had set the recording for a connection speed of DSL lines and would probably reduce it down to ISDN speeds.
After class I followed up on suggestions from a teacher at my school and one from our cohort to discover that I could record the work I do on the activeboard directly to a AVI file without the video camera. The next issue will be to test the sound recording ability to see if this will work effectively.
I will still need the video camera method for the videos I need for Procert so I am happy that I went through this process.
Here is a link to the video I posted on teacher tube. http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=42fbcd5c4eb73fe7dce0
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