Week 4 - iBooks and tutorials, and COPYRIGHT!

Editing a video

So today we played with the free version of Screenflow, a program designed for making learning resources. To my eyes it seemed that the only restriction with it was that all exports had a giant "Demo" in the middle, but for the purposes of whipping together some tutorial videos for class, I guess it doesn't matter so much. Would also be acceptable for kids trying their hand at mixed media things, but I think now having learnt about Hit Points in Sibelius I'd go for that instead since that keeps the focus on the music instead of the video.

1) Label all videos, naming the shot (fixed, wobbly, close) and the take number. Delete "chitchat" takes.

2) Using videos all from 1 take, use the clap to align multiple videos and/or audio.

PS: *You might find that you can't quite select the point at which the clap happens. This is because the mouse is usually snapped to video (20/second), and audio is much finer than that.

3) Action screen can be used to ask shots, images or text to move, change opacity, rotate. By dragging the side to change the length of the action Screenflow becomes an animator!

Humbo's 5 elements to a great teaching resource:

1. Text - not too many: 1 instruction/page

2. Image/Graphics

3. Audio

4. Video

5. Interactivity - Make a review page, learn more here, widgets!

Widgets

As a tech noob I had to google what a widget was. Essentially, they are an app-like file that can be embedded into iBooks and increase interactivity. Some examples from Bookry.com include games (memory games, mazes), viewers (PDF, doc, code display), and calculators (scientific, BMI). Bookry also allows the user to edit their downloaded widget, making it great for making resources.

Below: watch me use Screenflow to film myself struggle to work out widgets from Bookry!