Making Videos

Making Videos

After I got over my initial heart attack of, I was going to have to cut and paste all of the HTML into all of the different pages, I don’t, I am now left with finding all of the files that have been linked/embedded using the Google LTI feature.  This is will be time consuming endeavor, but hopefully my file system is organized enough that it will not take forever. It was very kind of my partner to saw that the links worked, some of them work, but most just take you back to the homepage until I locate and relink the majority of the files. 

 I decided to adapt a portion of a course I currently teach face to face into an online version.  Even though I will never teach this online, I know I can use everything I am creating in my face to face course.  I currently have PowerPoints of all the material I would introduce in class, because this is not going to happen, I need to add voice overs to all of them or turn them into some other form of instruction that is not PowerPoint.  Making videos is time consuming and, quite frankly, I don’t like to listen to my own voice but it I will get over it.  I know that the time I put into this now will save me in the long run if I continue to teach this course or whoever comes after me, because the content will all be there and instead of answering the same question twenty times, I can point them to the video.  I have already seen this reduce questions and increase understanding with some of the content but not all, it is always a work in progress.

I just took a moment and reviewed my time line I created, well October is basically half way over and I have completed one or two things on my list.  I need to step up my game, if I am going to get this all finished in 6ish more weeks.  I need to heed my own warning that I tell my students daily, just because it seems like you have a long time until the due date does not mean you actually do, get a move on.  With that said my goal this week will be to create the explanation for the storyboard/quantitative analysis and the qualitative analysis.  I don’t know if these will be videos or rather a handout of sorts, but I will make it happen.  Making videos is exhausting.