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So what I"ll show you today is three really easy ways to make
YouTube videos.
Even if you have absolutely no video experience whatsoever, I
think you'll find that these are nice ways to get started.
You basically have two choices when you're
making YouTube videos.
This snapshot here that you see on the left is if you have
a webcam looking down at a piece of paper.
So you can use some kind of recording equipment, like a
webcam, or a digital camcorder.
Even a smartphone--
smartphones have really good resolution now.
So put it on a tripod or looking down somehow, and you
can make a video very quickly at YouTube that way.
Your other option is to do a screen capture, which is the
snapshot you see on the right.
And this is a video that somebody else took, a
professor over at Mount Wachusett Community College.
Because I don't do a lot of the screen capture ones.
I've only done a few of those.
But as you can see, it gives you a lot more options.
So you can still write in there if you have a
Tablet to write on.
You can also copy and paste different images from, let's
say, an e-text, or something like that.
So one thing to think about as we go through the demos is
what level material or type of material you want to make
videos for.
If you're going to have a lot of word problems, or a lot of
complicated graphs to make, you're probably going to want
to go screen capture route, and use a Tablet.
If you're just doing out equations, factoring, and
maybe some simple graphs, you'll probably be fine with
just a webcam.
And we'll also talk about how do you link your students over
to the videos once you make them.
OK so just a overview for the equipment and the software.
And you don't have to buy everything
that I've listed here.
I just kind of wanted you all to have it in one
place to refer to.
If you decide that you want to go the webcam route, and
that's probably the fastest and easiest way to just get
started and try it out, then really all you need is a
webcam sitting on a tripod and that's it.
And a high speed connection and you can make videos.
So this is the setup I've got on my desk at home here.
And I've had really good luck with Logitech webcams, but you
can use anything.
If you've got a camcorder, or another webcam,
that'll work fine.
If you decide to go a screen capture route, then you got a
couple of choices.
An expensive choice would be a Tablet PC, which is what I
usually use, and it just crashed, so I'm not going to
use that today.
But Tablet PC works very well.
The other option is an external Tablet.
So I'll be using a Bamboo Pen Tablet today, and
those are, like, $70.
So they're well worth it, especially if you're doing
online courses.
They're great to have.
Because you can also do online office hours with them, which
we won't have time to get into today, but there's some great
websites for that, too.
So you need a some kind of a Tablet to write on if you want
to be putting your handwriting into it.
You might need to buy a microphone.
Over here with the webcam option, most webcams have a
microphone, so you don't even have to buy a mic usually.
Now for the Tablet route, or screen capture, you're going
to need software to screen capture, like Camtasia.
That runs a few hundred dollars.
Or a free version, which is Jing.
And you're also going to need software on the computer to
write on the computer screen.
So you'll either need Microsoft Journal, which
usually comes with the Tablet PC, or if you're using the
external Tablet, like I'm going to do today, you can use
SmoothDraw 3, which is a free program you
can download online.
And just so you know, if you are buying software, you can
get everything very inexpensively at
academicsuperstore.com That's academicsuperstore.com.
So you can get everything for just about half
price if you go there.
Before we make some videos, what I thought I'd do is show
you what it looks like from the student view.
How are they accessing the video?
And what do they look like?
Because you'll once we get over to YouTube, there's a lot
going on there visually, and it's kind of hard to know
exactly what the students going to see when you make a
video over there.
So I'm going to move away from the PowerPoint now.
Let's hop into one of my courses.
And this is my beginning Algebra
course from last semester.
This is an online course.
And the nice thing about YouTube is that no matter how
you want to link to things, whether you want to link to
just a video, or you want to link to YouTube itself or your
YouTube channel, it's just a website address.
So it's an external link, so you can use that in any course
management system you have.
Now I use MyMathLab for all of my courses.
This opens up to an announcement page, and then
you've got navigation buttons running down the left side.
And in MyMathLab, you can put external links pretty much
anywhere you want to.
What I used to do was put in the external link right in a
navigation button, so instead of due dates, I would have
this saying YouTube videos, or something like that.
And the students could access them from there.
What I do now is I put them right into the homework, and
that's nice because I can make media assignments that embed
the YouTube videos right where the students are going to be
needing them.
So let's pop one open and we can see what they're seeing.
And I'll go through the details of how you actually
make this linking happen after we make some videos, and then
we'll come back here and go through the linking details.
So what I do for the online homework is I have, for every
section of the book, a text and video media assignment and
then the regular MyMathLab homework assignment.
And it goes like that all the way down.
And I'm going to pop open one of the graphing sections
because that's where I tend to make a lot of videos, is for
the very visual topics.
And so here you can see that right within this section,
they'll have the MyMathLab e-text that they can look at,
MyMathLab video lecture, and then a bunch of
homework help videos.
So I usually don't make entire video
lessons or section lessons.
I just answer homework questions.
So they just pop it open, and it opens nice and
big, easy to see.
And it has audio, but I think I've got my
speaker turned down.
Then we have a linear gradient in two variables, and we want
to first find--
So it's got some audio there also.
And they can fast forward, they can rewind, they can
pause, just like with the MyMathLab videos.
And because it opens nice and big like this and it's just a
hand doing on a problem, if they're away from a computer,
and they've got their book with them, and they're doing
homework, they can check these out on a smartphone, too.
And you can even max out the screen.
So it's very easy to view these on a smartphone, which a
lot of the students find really handy.
OK so that's just a quick look at what the student's seeing.
And the basic idea once we get over to YouTube is that these
are just website addresses that we paste
in as external links.
So let's hop on over to YouTube now, and we'll make
some videos.
First thing you have to do is create a
YouTube account for yourself.
So you're just going to create account and basically create a
username and a password.
And I'll just go ahead and put mine in.
And if you don't have a Google account yet, or a Gmail
address, it will ask you to create one.
But that does not mean that you're going to have to always
go and check this new email address--
a Gmail account now for any kind of YouTube emails because
you can still connect your YouTube account to whatever
email address you want.
So I actually completely forgot what my Gmail address
is that I connected this to, so hopefully I don't need it.
And once you make an account, you automatically have a
YouTube channel.
So you've got your very own YouTube website, and you don't
have to do anything in order to create it.
And there's a couple ways you can access it.
Right here where you see my username at the top right,
there's a drop-down menu.
And this is how you can navigate around
your YouTube account.
So we could right now go right to My Channel.
And that's one to get to it.
And the more generic way to get to it, which is something
really nice to tell your students, is right up here in
the address field.
Whoops, that wasn't where I wanted to go.
This get's me back.
So right here in the address field, you're YouTube account
will be-- or your channel is YouTube.com / and then you put
in whatever your username is.
So that's the channel name you can give to your students,
which means you don't have to put them into your videos in
the course website if you don't want to.
They can just come here and search at YouTube.
Now as I'm going through stuff, just let me know if you
have any questions--
if you'd like any more details about anything I'm talking
about up here.
Just so I don't go through something too fast without
realizing it.
Now when you make your YouTube channel, and you
start making videos--
so right here we could click upload and
start making videos.
As you make videos, YouTube will populate
your channel for you.
So, again, you don't have to know anything
about website design.
There are a few different formats for the look of the
channel that you could pick, and you would pick it right
here with the settings button.
Now I happen to pick the setting that let's me push
[INAUDIBLE].
So I took all my videos and put them into different
playlists to make them easily searchable for any
YouTubers out there.
And that's something I only did within the last maybe six
months, or something like that.
And I organized them by topics, but you can also do it
by course instead, or something like that.
But if you don't want to at first organize them by
playlist, I think the default format is to show your feed,
which means your activity.
So every time you upload a new video, it'll show here.
But basically, whatever format you use, your students can
always come here and go into the search field on the right,
and search for any video they want, any topic.
So one of the topics my students have trouble with is
Cramer's rule for 3x3 system.
So any topic that you have, it'll find a match, and your
students can play the videos that go with the match for the
topic they're looking for.
Now once you're playing a video on YouTube and whether
it's a video you've made--
or it could be a video that anybody has made--
you can look right at the bottom of it, and if the
person has agreed to share their videos, then you can
copy it in--
there'll be a share button--
and you can go here and copy this URL address and that's
the URL address, or the website address, for this
particular video.
So that's how you can link to any video that you want.
You go back to your course website and put it in there.
So we'll do that once we make a few videos.
Alright so that's just the general idea of your channel.
So let's actually make some videos now and start working
with those.
So we go to Upload, and you've got two options
for uploading videos.
You can either upload a video that already exists on your
computer, so it's a video you've made ahead of time, or
you can record directly from webcam, and as you do the
problem out, it's automatically
uploading to YouTube.
So I'm going to do that first because this is the fastest
and easiest way to get started with YouTube videos, is just
record from webcam.
The downside is that it's not going to be recorded on a hard
drive, so that's something you want to think
about ahead of time.
First thing you have to do is allow YouTube to see your
webcam, and also to access your microphone.
And so now you see the piece of paper I've got on my desk.
And I've got the webcam looking right down at it.
And you also want to make sure the audio's going, so you
don't record a 10-minute video and realize, uh oh I didn't
have my audio going.
So just on the right side here, you can see that the
microphone bar-- there's supposed to be a green bar
here-- is not moving.
So that means I want to go look at my drop-down menu from
M and choose Logitech microphone, and that is the
webcam I have.
So Logitech mics have a--
or, webcam--
have a really good microphone with them.
You can also just have any kind of microphone that you
plug into your computer, and it'll show up
here under your choices.
If you get to the screen, and you don't see what your webcam
is seeing, then you want to do the drop-down menu for the
camera and tell it what webcam to look through if you have
more than one.
And then we are ready to record.
Alright we've got some Friday the 13th stuff happening here.
Alright let me get that started again.
Let me see what happens.
Records webcam.
Allow.
OK, so it looks like it saved those choices I had made from
microphone and webcam, so we're good to go.
And I'm going to keep this to be a short video, just so it
doesn't take long to upload.
We hit Record.
Add 4 to both sides, and we get x is equal to 10.
And that's it.
So you can really crank out the videos pretty quickly if
you're doing it by Record from Webcam.
And we can preview it if we want to, but generally I don't
really do that.
I just go ahead and publish it.
And publishing means, OK it's at YouTube, and now YouTube is
processing it, and it'll be ready for us to
watch pretty soon.
And that's basically it.
Here we go.
So that's basically it, that makes a video for you.
And then you could just keep making more videos if you
wanted to, or if you wanted to work with the one you just
made, then you can fill in the title and things like that.
So let's go ahead and fill in these fields.
Let's see, for titles, I would probably put for this one,
solve linear equations.
And description, I might put something a little bit more
detailed about the equation if it had fractions
or decimals in it.
For tags, you want to put it any common words that people
are going to search on when they're
looking for help at YouTube.
And also this pops up in Google searches, too.
So I might put in algebra, probably linear equation,
anything else I think might help this video pop up.
And category, education.
And, basically, everything else I just leave default.
But let's take a look at it in case you haven't seen these
before, so you'll see the kinds of things that you're
given choices on.
Video Thumbnail is just a screen shot of your video, so
I just let YouTube set that.
I always leave it public.
That way people can search for it and find it very easily.
This one I'm going to put private just because it's a
little demo video.
And that means basically only I have access to it, unless I
enter in people's email addresses.
The other option is unlisted, and that one can come in handy
once in a while--
such as, I made some videos that were training videos for
faculty at my school, and I was talking about, OK this is
what students will typically have trouble
with, blah blah blah.
So I wanted just the instructors to watch that
video, so I made it unlisted, but then I sent them the link
by email, and then they could all watch it
if they wanted to.
But generally, I leave it public.
And license, I actually haven't looked
too much into that.
I think standard license means that people have to contact
you for permission to use your video or link to it.
But in my channel-- right at the start of my channel--
I just said, feel free to share these videos with
anybody you want to.
So I kind of just leave that as the default here.
And Comments, I always allow comments automatically.
You will get an email every time a comment is put in.
So you can either decide to go and delete it, if it's rude,
or you can just leave it there.
And in about six years of making videos, I've had maybe
a handful of rude comments, so it's not many at all.
People who are looking for help with math generally are
not going to be putting rude comments in there.
And you can also block the user if they put a rude
comment in.
So that's really nice to have.
You also get very helpful comments, like somebody told
me once that the audio wasn't working on one of my videos,
so I was like, oh, thank you.
So I went in and redid the video with audio.
Comment Voting, I just allow that.
Same with Video Responses.
And those, by default, have to be approved.
So that way you don't have to worry that anything is going
to go up there that you don't want there.
And Ratings, I allow those.
Those are handy because they let you know what's working,
and what's not working.
So I had a particular topic that was getting fewer stars,
so I was like, Oh OK, I need to tweak my
presentation here a bit.
It's not getting the point across.
So I find those helpful.
Editing lets other people link to the website--
or to your video--
and embed them into their website.
So that's pretty handy.
I like to share the videos.
And Syndication is nice too because it let's people watch
them on smartphones if they want to.
And then we'll go up to Save Changes.
And Denise, we actually just got a question, too.
Sorry I don't mean to interrupt.
If you make a mistake on your video, can you delete them?
Yes, you can delete any video you want, and so I'll show you
how you can do that.
So, again, the drop-down menu gets you to navigate, and go
to Video Manager to work with any video you've made.
And you can delete any video you've made if you don't want
it for whatever reason.
But a really nice feature on YouTube is that you can also
put in little bubbles in case you made a mistake.
And if I can remember which video it is, when we get back
to linking, if you remind me to find that video that has
the bubble in it-- because I know it's in my beginning
algebra course--
I just had to fix an error recently.
So that's another way you can take care of errors.
That works out very nice.
So here's the video we just made.
You can also search on any video that you've made just by
going into the search field.
So let's take a look at the one we've just made here.
And it does have audio.
Let me turn it up.
Add 4 to both sides, and we get x is equal to 10.
Like that.
And then right up here, I believe in Annotation, is
where we can click and then put some bubbles in there.
And maybe put, oops, that was supposed to be
a two, not a five.
If you made a mistake on the last part of a 10-minute
video, it kind of stinks to have to do the whole video
over again, so you can just throw in the bubbles.
OK now that we are on the page where the video is, we go
right to the share button.
And I'm going to copy the URL address so that later we can
go past it into MyMathLab.
So we just make sure it's highlighted, and Control-C,
and we've got it copied.
So we'll head back there afterwards.
So that's basically what you do with Record from a Webcam.
Does anybody have a question with that before we go on to
the second method?
OK so let's go ahead and do the next method, which is the
next easiest method, I would say.
It would be one of the Upload Video choices.
So if I'm going to upload a video that I already made, and
it's on my hard drive, I've got to make it first, and save
it to my computer.
So I can either make it with a webcam, or I can make it with
screen capture software.
So I'm going to do it with a webcam first because this is
the second easiest way to make a video, I would think.
Now the advantage of doing it this way with a webcam and
making the video first is that you're going to have it saved
to your hard drive.
And that's nice to have, especially if you're making
videos as part of a project at school, or something like
that, and you're going to have to hand over the files, then
you pretty much have to have them on a hard drive.
Be sure to have an external hard drive because it really
slows down your computer otherwise.
So I keep them all just saved to an external hard drive.
Now if you make a bunch with just Record from Webcam, and
you don't have them saved, there is software out there
you can use to download them from YouTube.
So if any of you have questions about that software,
you can just let me know, and I can send you some ideas.
OK so, if we want to make a video with our webcam, then
you open up the webcam control panel.
And this one was already open because it was open for the
video we made before.
But if it wasn't open yet, I would go to my Start Button
and All Programs, and then it would show up in there, and I
could choose my webcam from there.
And then once it opens up, every webcam's going to have a
slightly different look to it, but there should be-- one of
the menu buttons is going to look like a video, so that's
what I clicked on to open up the screen that you see now.
And the only thing I really set here is the image size.
If the image size is not 640 by 480, I put 640 by 480, only
because that used to be the file size that
worked best for YouTube.
Now, YouTube's always changing and upgrading, and I think
that that's not an issue anymore.
But I just do that because that's the way I
learned how to do it.
So you might not even have to worry about the
dimensions like that.
And then we're ready to go.
We just record the video.
So I'll just do the same problem out.
We hit Record.
Just add 4 to both sides, and we get x is equal to 10.
And I hit Stop Record.
Now down here, highlighted in green is video two, so that's
the one we just made.
So I'll just remember that number when we go searching
for it later.
Now this particular webcam has a nice little feature, which
is a YouTube shortcut button.
And if you do that, you just hit the shortcut button, and
you put in the title and the different settings
that you want for--
like allowing comments, that kind of stuff.
And then hit Send, and it sends it over to YouTube and
then you just hop back over here and keep plugging out
your videos.
And that way you don't have to wait for each one to upload in
YouTube before you make a new one.
So that's a really nice feature.
But let's just go upload this one the generic way because
most of you probably have a different
webcam than this one.
So we can x out of here.
We're done with that.
And we want to now upload a video.
And usually, to find your videos, go into My Documents.
It always shows up in a weird order.
We don't like the order, so let me get
the order right here.
OK.
So go into My Documents and My Videos is where most webcams
will default to.
And then I find my Logitech webcam.
And that was video number two.
And open, or double-click on it, and it uploads to YouTube.
So this saves it to your hard drive, which is really nice,
but it takes about twice as long as using
the Record from Webcam.
Record from Webcam-- as long as it takes you to do all the
problems, that's it.
But if you use this method here, you have to do out the
problems, so that's one step.
And then you have to come over to YouTube and upload it, and
it takes just about as long to upload it as
it did to make it.
So you've got about twice as long.
But it's still fairly fast to use this.
And we fill in our choices.
I'll say, no for that one.
And I'm just going to make this one private and, again,
we fill in all the title, and description, and tags, and all
that stuff.
And also when you use this method, you get the URL
address right away, so we could just copy this, go over
to MyMathLab, paste it in.
And that's pretty much it for uploading a video that you
make with a webcam.
And does anybody have any questions with
any of those steps?
I'll get us over to Video Manager.
So we actually did get another question earlier.
I just didn't want to interrupt you.
When you showed us where you can make it private and then
put in email addresses for people who are allowed to see
it, if you only want students from a particular class of
yours to see a particular video, would you paste in the
emails of all of those students?
Is that what you would recommend doing?
Or is there another shortcut to do it?
You know, there's probably a shortcut.
I think I avoided doing that, just because it would be a lot
of upkeep all the time, every class.
So what you could do is--
I want to edit this one--
I think I need to go back here.
Yeah, edit.
OK.
And Privacy.
OK, Unlisted is anybody with the link can do it, so I think
what I would do then is make it unlisted, and I'm going to
go paste this link into the website, so that my students
can hit the link.
So as long as the link is pasted there, they
have access to it.
Does that make sense?
Yep, that's a good answer.
And yeah, so I think that's probably the quickest
work-around if you only want certain people to see it.
You can also email it to all your students, but it is kind
of nice to embed it somewhere in a course website.
And that would allow them access also.
OK so now we've got this one here, and that one would be
ready for us to edit, and if we made mistakes, we could put
annotations in it.
Generally I just leave it as is.
I keep them pretty short and sweet, and I don't edit them
unless I make a mistake, and then I do.
Which is another great thing about allowing comments.
The YouTubers out there will tell you if you made a
mistake, and they'll tell you very nicely.
They're not rude at all.
They're just going to say, I think that was supposed to be
a five at the end, and not a three.
Allowing comments means I don't have to watch every
video I make.
And there's probably been five or six of them where people
emailed me, or put a comment to the video, and then I just
go in and put a little bubble, and that takes care of it.
Alright the third way is the longest way to make the
videos, but allows you the most options.
And that's upload a video that you've already made, and
you've made it using screen capture software.
So the first thing we need to do is make our video.
And usually what I do is on the Tablet PC, I
use Microsoft Journal.
I open that up and write on that with the Tablet PC Pen.
But now using an external Tablet, it
works out just as well.
There's probably something out there similar to Microsoft
Journal that you can buy, but I'm not sure what it is.
What I'm going to use is SmoothDraw 3.
And that you can find online, just a Google
search, free download.
And if you've seen any Khan Academy videos, he uses
SmoothDraw 3 for all of his videos.
So it's got a lot of really nice features.
And let's see, what we'll do first is just do a really
short video, again, so it doesn't
take too long to process.
First I'm going to write down the equation
that we want to solve.
And I want to work with the Pen.
So I'm going to do x minus 4 equals 6.
And now I'm going to open Camtasia.
So before you open your screen capture software--
so this will be either Camtasia or Jing.
I should say something about Jing.
It is free, whereas Camtasia is about $170 at
academicsuperstore.com But the downside is that you don't
have the same functionality.
It's not as powerful.
And it's a little complicated as to how do you get the Jing
file into a format that uploads to YouTube.
Now it is doable, and I know some people who have done it
before, and I don't remember what software
they used for it.
But it means finding ways to do that.
Alright so you want to have your document open before you
open Camtasia, and then you open your
screen capture software.
And I have an old version of Camtasia, it's version 5.
I think they're on version 7 now.
But basically it'll be the same steps, it's just going to
have a slightly different look to it.
So I could do New Screen Recording here, or I could do
Make a Recording at the top left.
So let's do that.
And the first thing we need to do is select the area that we
want to record.
So I'm going to go Select Area.
And I want that square--
I guess just the whiteboard square.
I could make it the entire screen, but I'll just do the
whiteboard right there.
And click.
And this other stuff, I just pretty much leave at whatever
it gets set to.
I don't choose any preset sizes.
I just leave it at the default settings and go from there.
And if they don't look good after the video is made, then
I might play around with it a bit.
But generally it works without having to
do any playing around.
And then we'll do Record.
Oops, I was about to write on my paper.
I need to write on a Tablet.
OK so Record.
And now we want to add 4 to both sides, and what I'm going
to do is change the color.
So I'm going to hit my color box here.
Choose red.
Now I add-- oops, that didn't work.
Try again.
Choose red.
And alright well the red didn't work.
You can see I don't use this software very often.
In Journal it works pretty quickly, and I'm sure it works
quickly here when you're used to it.
So you can make different colors, which is nice.
Instead of-- with a webcam, you have to switch out pens.
x equals 10.
I'm going to stop it so it doesn't
take too long to process.
And, again, it has volume.
Yeah I guess when you're choosing a color, it makes the
color come on the screen.
So it depends if you want that to show up to the students or
not, if you want to put the color in.
And we can either watch this whole thing or just say, OK,
let's save that.
And give it a file name because we're going to want to
search for it over at YouTube when we upload.
So they called it Demo 3.
Now I just saved it as Demo 3, and that is a Camtasia file, a
Camtasia recording.
What I need to do now is produce it in a sharable
format that we can then upload to YouTube because you can't
take the Camtasia recording and upload it to YouTube.
So I'll hit OK for produce in a sharable format.
And if you get a new version of Camtasia, you're going to
have an option--
I'm not sure where, but I think it's going
to be in the presets--
you'll have an option for YouTube.
So that's a nice feature.
And right now this one doesn't have an option for YouTube, so
what I do is I just do Custom Production Settings.
And I've had lots of luck using either WMV, the Windows
Media Video, or MOV, which is QuickTime.
Those work great.
I've had pretty much luck using Flash format, but
sometimes it doesn't upload and I don't know why.
So I usually avoid it, and I just go WMV, just because I
never ever run into an issue with that format.
Basically everything else--
there's a lot of things like encoding options and sizes--
I just ignore them and click through them.
And the videos always come out fine without worrying about
them, so I just don't even think about them.
Just keep clicking through, default settings, default
settings, default settings.
I might give it a better title than Demo 3, or a better name,
but I'll just leave it Demo 3.
And now it's rendering, so it's taking it and turning
into the WMV format.
So you can see that this is adding, again, another x to
the processing time.
So if you figure it takes you x amount of time to make the
video, or to do the problem out.
Then it takes you x amount of time to render it in Camtasia.
Then you go to YouTube, and it takes you x amount of time to
upload it to YouTube.
So this will take three times as long, about, as if you do a
Record from Webcam.
But you do have a lot more possibilities with it.
Actually, it may have downloaded a little bit longer
than I wanted to because they're
kind of slow to render.
OK.
And then here it is, but we don't have to watch it.
So I'll just x it out.
And now what we would do is go over and upload it to YouTube.
But I do want to show you what's cool about using this
method, and that's the power it gives you to add in all
different features.
If you're in Windows Journal on a Tablet PC, you'll be able
to put in text boxes.
And maybe you want to show what the steps are of the
problems that you're doing ahead of time before you
actually solve out the problem.
And you can also, whether you're in Journal or
SmoothDraw, you can go into any e-text that you want to,
or anything online, or any document, and you can copy and
paste something into it.
So, for example, here I've got a graph template, so that way
I don't have to always be making my graph grids by hand.
And also, just so you know, that training packet that
Alicia will send out later has graph templates there, so you
can just be copy and pasting from those if you want to.
So what I can do now is I can copy this--
oh, and that reminds me that I did not tell you another piece
of good software to get.
If you want to be able to copy and paste things from e-books
and from anything on your screen, then it's really worth
it to get Snagit.
And this is the version of Snagit I have.
You can also get it at Academic Superstore
and it's about $30.
So I would say, open Snagit.
I'm going to choose a region to copy, and I'm going to
capture or outline the portion I want to copy.
I want to copy that graph.
And here I could send it into different documents if I
wanted to, but right now, I just want to copy it.
So I'm going to say copy all.
And I'll close out.
And them I'm back in SmoothDraw, and I paste, and
I've got a graph.
And that works in Windows Journal.
And then you can switch back over to the writing pen, and
put in a line, or whatever you want to do with it.
So you do have a lot more options if you're
using screen capture.
OK.
Have any more questions come in, Alicia, about that before
I upload it?
Yes, there's a couple of questions that came in.
I think it actually might be better if
they ask you directly.
So Jamie Thomas has a question, can we go directly
from Tablet PC to recording in YouTube without having to do
Camtasia, or does that only work if you are
recording from a webcam?
I believe it only works recording from a webcam, or
from a mobile phone, or something like that.
There is the feature in Record from
Webcam that says Camtasia.
So I'm going to hop in to record from a webcam and--
because I was wondering the same thing.
I'm like, wouldn't it be cool if I could just write on my
Tablet, and it's going to go right into YouTube and I don't
have to go through all the processing.
So there's a choice here for Camtasia, and I'm not really
sure how it works, and I messed around with it and
couldn't figure it out.
So, whoever asked that, if you figure out a way to do it, I'd
love to know.
It's possible there's a way, but I think that you have to
just do a webcam, or some kind of picture device.
So that's kind of a non-answer.
Sorry I couldn't help you on that one.
OK and then we got another question, too.
If you want to lecture on a board, and then use the
Tablet, can you combine them into one video, or can the
webcam clear enough to see a whiteboard if I
am writing on it?
I would say a webcam's probably not good enough
resolution, although it could be that you can get-- a really
expensive one might have good enough resolution.
I've actually never gotten expensive ones.
I would say go for a digital camcorder, and then definitely
you would have good enough resolution to write on a
whiteboard.
And you could also--
if I understand your question, you're wondering can you
combine that in one video where you also have something
else that you made with a Tablet, and you can do that.
If you have something like Camtasia, it's going to let
you do a lot of editing where you can take different video
files and put them in a timeline, and show videos from
different sources all in one video.
Is that what you were asking?
Yep, OK, she said, yes.
Yeah, it would take quite a long time for rendering and
things like that, but it's definitely doable.
You can also have picture in a picture, which is really nice
because you can set it at the top right of the screen-- it
would be your face.
So the students can actually still see you, even they're
just watching your hand do another problem, or
something like that.
So that's kind of a nice feature--
Personalize Screen Capture Videos.
OK so let's go ahead and link our videos from YouTube--
I mean from MyMathLab.
So we already copied one of the videos that was in the
video manager, one of the ones we--
So again, if you want to paste--
or copy one of your videos, you open it up
in the Video Manager.
Oh and that Camtasia screen capture one we just did--
you would still do the same choice for upload.
You would do Upload Video File, search for it, click on
it, and then you would do the same thing as the one we
recorded with a webcam.
OK so now we want to paste one of these into MyMathLab.
So you find the video you want in Video Manager, and you
click on Share.
And then just make sure your URL is highlighted.
Control-C. Now I'll go--
MathLab.
And paste it in.
So first I'll paste it into the homework, and then we'll
make it just into a navigation button instead.
So let's see.
To make it into the homework--
and this might be possible in other course management
systems, but I actually don't know.
But for MyMathLab what you do is you go to Control Panel,
and click on Homework Test Manager.
And at the top left, I want to Create an Assignment.
And I'm going to create a media assignment.
And, just so you know, all of these steps are also shown in
the training packet that you'll be getting, and they're
also a training demo video at my website if you wanted to
look through it again.
So, let's see, I'm calling this one, Demo 3.
And usually what I do is I just label it by section.
I'll make a media assignment for each section.
I'll put a whole bunch of different videos in there.
You can make a media assignment per video if you
want to, so you can do it a lot of different ways.
And here I want to--
let's say we just want to make a media
assignment for this video.
I'm going to click on the top right here, add my own media.
And I've got a URL address, so I'm going to go ahead and
paste that in.
And that's what's so nice and flexible about YouTube is,
it's always just a URL address.
So you just paste your website in there, call it Demo 3.
Choose type, I'll call it a website.
And you have to associate it with one chapter.
So Linear Equations, Chapter Two.
And usually I put the section and objective also because
when I switch over to new addition, I want all that
stuff to migrate nicely into my new addition course.
And as long as it has specification for where to put
it, it can migrate nicely.
And save.
Then I'll go to next.
And I would choose to Save & Assign down
at the bottom right.
And now it should show up right at the bottom of all of
the homework and test assignments.
So there it is, Demo 3.
Usually I would reorder it wherever it goes.
But I'll just leave it there for now.
And let's go see what the student sees.
So back into student view.
Student goes to Homework Online, and at the very bottom
they're going to see the video we just put in there.
And they can click on it, and it's going to open right up.
Add 4 to both sides, and we get--
So it's really quick to link to your videos.
It can be time-consuming though, depending on how many
videos there are and then it gets to be a worry of, what if
I want to switch textbooks?
Or go to a new addition-- will it really migrate nicely?
[INAUDIBLE].
You can also link just through a navigation button.
That's an easier way to link, so let's go ahead and do that.
And did any more questions come in, Alicia?
Because you can just break in any time if they do.
Nope, I think we're up to speed on the questions.
Right.
So let's say here in syllabus, I could call that one YouTube
videos if I wanted to.
And if you haven't made your own navigation button before,
in MyMathLab, how you do that is Control Panel, and then we
go to Manage Course Menu--
and this is also in that training video that I made.
And then you can create a Content Area
right here at the top.
And you can create the Content Area and call it anything you
want, and then you'll be all set.
You'll have whatever navigation button you want.
So let's pretend syllabus says YouTube video.
So I would just go in there.
Top right, Edit View.
And then I want to paste in an external link.
Now we could right here put in that URL address we copied for
this specific video.
But what I do when I link in navigation buttons instead is
I link over to the YouTube channel itself.
So I'll say http:// and then put in www.youtube.com/ My
channel is RobichaudD.
I'm going to put in QCCmath instead.
That's a math department YouTube channel at
Quinsigamond Community College.
Just so we can take a look at that, too.
And then I would call this QCC Math Channel.
And the only thing to watch for here is--
open in a new window.
Yes, that makes it a lot easier for
the students to navigate.
Submit.
OK.
And then Display View so we see what the student sees.
So now when they click on the link, it brings them right
over to the YouTube channel.
So if this was my channel, they would go in and search--
or it works in this channel too--
you go in and search for whatever video you want.
That's another way to link students to your
channel very quickly.
So if you just start making videos, and you don't have
time to link to them individually, just put in a
link for your channel, and you'll be all set.
Your students will have access to it.
And if you do eventually put your videos into playlists--
this is really cool-- you can link to a playlist.
So this is my beginning algebra course, so at the
QCCmath channel, we have them by course, so that it's most
helpful to our students, as opposed to at my own channel,
I list them by topics, just because I wanted it to be
useful for all YouTubers out there.
But at QCCmath, we do it by playlist.
So you click on a playlist.
So the course is Beginning Algebra.
And you have the same kind of share button.
So now I can isolate the videos my students are getting
sent to so that they don't have to be
wondering, where do I look?
What am I supposed to put in here?
So I just highlight the playlist, Control-C, go back
into MyMathLab, and I would go through the exact same process
we just did.
I would edit view, external website, paste in the URL, or
the playlist itself.
And then that would bring them over here.
So that's a third way that you can link.
So it's very easy to link to the videos.
And I also mentioned training videos, so I want to make sure
I show you those, and where you can find those.
Training video's playlist has demos, videos of everything
we've done here today.
So it'll be MyMathLab linking, including how do you make a
navigation button, Record from Webcam, Upload a Video-- and
that one's made with a webcam.
Make Videos Made with Screen Capture.
If you're in different states, you might have to worry about
captioning.
Captioning works very easily in Camtasia, so there's a very
short sample with that, and a bunch of other stuff.
Online office hours if you have a Tablet, and you want to
try that out, you can check that video out.
And the other thing I wanted to show you here too is if you
want to link to homework help videos, feel free to link to
any of mine.
And if you go to the bottom right of my channel, you'll
see the Featured Channels.
And these are mostly AMATYC members, who are instructors
who have made videos and they're also willing to share
their videos.
So you can find pretty much any level of math you're
looking for here, too.
I think that rounds up everything I was
going to talk about.
Are there any follow-up questions?
Yeah, so if anyone has any questions, feel free to--
you don't have to IM them to me-- feel free to ask.
And just as a reminder, press *6 or #6
if you muted yourself.
Yeah, feel free to ask any questions.
Anyone?
And if you come up with any too, feel free to definitely
to email me.
And I assume, Alicia, you'll be sending
out my email address?
Yep, absolutely.
And it's also in the training packet, so feel free to share
that with other people, email me if you've got questions.
And if you figure out new cool things to do with YouTube, I'd
love to hear about those.
And also if you get a channel--
or, should I say, when you get your channel, and if you are
willing to share the stuff, I would love to have you listed
under Featured Channels here, and just have a lot of
sharing going on.
I had a quick question.
How did you get your videos into different playlists?
How did you exactly get those to do that?
That you can do a couple of different ways.
So basically you do everything to manage videos
through Video Manager.
And here if I already have my playlist made, I can just pick
a video, and say Add To, and pick up the--
like if I want it in my functions, I
add it to this playlist.
And that would be it, it's added.
Or you could--
I'm not sure if you saw the choice there, but there was a
choice to add a new playlist, so you
could make a new playlist.
And I think that once you make a playlist, by default it's
visible, I'm pretty sure.
So you have to go and make it unvisible if you
don't want it visible.
The other way you can make playlists is to--
once you're in Video Manager, the left side is all the
navigation buttons, just like in MyMathLab.
So you go to Playlist instead of Uploads.
And that lets you on the top right make a new playlist.
When I was first making them, I just went in there and I
made Beginning Algebra, Intermediate
Algebra, College Algebra.
Then I went to Uploads, and I found all of the ones from
Beginning Algebra and checked them off.
And said add to Beginning Algebra.
Does that make sense?
Makes total sense.
And the other program that I use-- you
use Microsoft Journal.
I use Microsoft OneNote and still use those Pen
capabilities to write on top of my Tablet.
So I think that might be another program that some
people might have.
So that only comes with--
if you're using Microsoft, that would be, like, a PC.
So if people have a Macintosh computer out there, does
anybody know of any software to write on?
Because I don't have any experience with Macs.
I'm assuming SmoothDraw would still work.
OK, so, most people probably have PC's.
Any other questions from anyone?
Well like I said, I'll be sending out a follow-up email
later today with Denise's contact info if you do have
something you want to ask her, or something you want to tell
her, even just to share information.
And, like I said, I'll be sending out the recording link
as well, so you can share this with colleagues, or you can go
back and watch it again.
And then I'll be sending out the training guide that Denise
was referencing too, with all the details of how to do all
these cool things.
So feel free to email me if you have any questions or
email Denise.
And with that I think we're good.
So thank you so much, everyone for joining us today and thank
you, Denise for doing this.
It was great.
You're very welcome.
Bye, everybody.
OK, well have a great day, everyone.
Bye.