Simple Tips for Creating Video in the Classroom
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In this episode of “Ask the Tech Coach),” Jeff and Susan welcome an awesome panel of tech coaches to discuss using video with training teachers and teaching students. We discussed what we have learned, what our teachers have learned, and ideas for best practices.

Topics Discussed

	What have we learned about creating video to instruct our teachers?

	What have we learned about creating video to instruct our students?

	New Teacher Orientation

	What advice do we have for “newbies?”


	Camera angle at or a bit above eye level

	iPhone back camera is higher quality

	Interesting background helpful

	Light on your face

	Stay closer to your audio source.

	Be sure to look at your camera lens and not at yourself. Put an interesting picture/photo above your camera to focus on to look up at the camera.

	Amazing New Drawing Tool: 


	Wacom Tablet) for writing/annotations onto screen





	Making Great Looking Backgrounds









	Have an idea of the look you want


	Google Slides, other slides apps to add shapes, colors

	Unsplash.com); Pixabay.com) - images, videos that are copyright friendly to make backgrounds

	The Noun Project) - Starburst and Swirl icons to create alternate looks

	Zoom - 16:9 dimension

	Look in specs for platform you are using to determine background size

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