This section provides support, guidelines, hints and tips for those of you wanting to develop content, with a particular focus on multimedia content – digital images, audio, and video. The guidelines cover the use of both PC (Windows) and Mac computers – where usage differs between the operating systems.
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For specific techniques and approaches – click on the heading below that best describes what you want to do, and follow the instructions:
Screen Capture
Record things that happen on your computer desktop, e.g. take a still picture of your computer desktop or of images that appear on your computer desktop, or how to make a video recording of things that happen on your computer desktop.
Lecture, Presentation and Classroom Recording
Make a recording of your lecture, presentation or classroom activity – this could be a recording of your voice only, or a video recording of the lecture, or a student role-play session; and how to turn this recording into something that can be used to enhance teaching and learning.
Lecture and Presentation Broadcast
Schedule and deliver an online presentation or classroom activity that participants/students can log in to and interact with in real time, from remote/off campus locations.
Multimedia Production
Create multimedia-based teaching and learning objects. E.g. how to make an audio recording whilst sitting at your office computer, or how to add a spoken voice recording to a PowerPoint presentation.
Editing Digital Media
Edit various forms of digital media – video, audio and fixed images (photos, graphic designs).
Multimedia Enhancement in Blackboard
Add multimedia content to Blackboard
How do I take pictures of things on my computer desktop screen?
Scenario: You are creating a user guide document that shows students how to navigate around a particular website and you want to include pictures of the website, showing them which buttons and links to click
How do I record/capture moving images from my computer desktop screen?
Scenarios:
1. Your students have been asked to setup their own reflective blog site and you want to create a video that shows them how to do it – step by step
2. You want to do a video demonstration of the use of some specific software
3. You want to create a video that presents a tour of various websites
Lecture, Presentation and Classroom Capture
How do I make an audio recording of my lecture/presentation?
Scenario: You want to be able to provide your students with audio recordings of your lectures/presentations as revision material
How do I make a video recording of my lecture/presentation?
Scenarios:
1. You want to be able to provide your students with video recordings of your lectures/presentations as revision material.
2. You want your Distance Learners to see what was delivered to the attending students
How do I capture my voice and what I am projecting from my computer (e.g. PowerPoint slides) in real-time, as I deliver the presentation?
Scenario: You want to create an instant audio/visual presentation of your lecture content as you deliver it for your students to use as revision material on Blackboard
How do I make a recording of student interactions in a class?
Scenario: you want to video and audio record some role play activities of your students in the classroom for the purpose of reflection and/or assessment of practice
Lecture and Presentation Broadcast
How do I deliver a live online presentation that participants can view from remote locations?
Scenarios:
1.You want to be able to deliver a live interactive classroom session with your distance learning students
2.You need to have a face to face meeting with several colleagues who are in disparate locations (e.g. overseas)
How do I record TV and radio programmes for use in class or in Blackboard
Scenario: There is a programme on terrestrial TV or radio, part of which would help to explain a complex theory and you wish to record this for students to watch
How do I make a recording of my voice whilst sitting at my office computer?
Scenario: You want to create a ‘Welcome to the Module’ audio recording to go on your Blackboard module guide page
How do I make a video recording of myself sitting at my office computer?
Scenario: You want to create a ‘Welcome to the Module’ video to go on your Blackboard module guide page
How do I add a recording of my voice to a PowerPoint presentation?
Scenarios:
1. You are developing some distance learning materials and would like to offer your students a series of lectures/presentations in which your voice is accompanied by PowerPoint slides
2. You want all of your students to see the slides and hear your voice but you are unable to capture this whilst delivering
3. You want to create a supplementary set of slides with your voice to augment the lecture or lab materials
How do I get a video off of a DVD?
Scenario: A colleague has made several videos of student role play sessions. These sessions have been saved on a DVD that plays when it is put it into a DVD player. You want to be able to show the videos in your Blackboard module, but don’t know how to get the videos off of the DVD and into a format that will work in Blackboard
How can I extract just the audio from a video?
Scenario: You have an old video of yourself delivering a presentation. You wanted to make this video available on your Blackboard module but realise that it isn’t really necessary for you to be seen, and it would be just as effective if only your voice could be heard
How do I edit digital photos or other digital images?
Scenarios:
1. You want to produce a guide to using a piece of software but you wish to remove or blur sections of the screen grabs you have taken for copyright or data protection reasons
2. You want to produce a simple graphic for use on your course materials to give the students a feeling of consistency and help them identify with your materials
How do I edit recordings made with the DMU Replay (Panopto) software?
Scenario: You have made several recordings of your lectures using DMU Replay (Panopto) that you want to put on your Blackboard module as revision materials. But the recordings are too long for revision material; you only want to include certain sections that cover the key points
How do I edit video recordings not made with DMU Replay (Panopto)?
Scenario: You have several old video recordings of your lectures that are too long for revision material; you want to edit them to include certain sections that cover the key points and then put them on your Blackboard module.
How do I edit audio recordings not made with DMU Replay (Panopto)?
Scenario: You have several old audio recordings of your lectures that you want to put on your Blackboard module as revision materials. But the recordings are too long for revision material; you only want to include certain sections that cover the key points
Multimedia enhancement in Blackboard
How do I add images and photos to a blackboard page?
Scenario: You want to make images and photos that you have downloaded from an open education resource available to students to download and/or view in a module shell
How do I add audio to a Blackboard page?
Scenario: You want to make an audio recording available to students to download or listen to using their preferred media player via the module shell
How do I add a YouTube video to a Blackboard page?
Scenario: You want to make a You Tube video recording available for students to download or watch
How do I add a non-DMU Replay (Panopto) video that I have on my computer desktop to a Blackboard page?
Scenario: You have an old video of one of your lectures and want to make it available to students on Blackboard
How do I add a DMU Replay (Panopto) recording to a Blackboard page?
Scenario: You have made Panopto recording of your lecture and want to make it available to students on Blackboard
How do I setup a live online classroom session for my distance students in Blackboard?
Scenario: You want to be able to deliver a live, face to face interactive classroom session that your students can access from a remote/off campus location