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RIT/NTID

An International Symposium

Technology and Deaf Education

"Video, Video Everywhere

Using Video in Teaching"

Presenters:

Simon Ting,

Regina Kiperman-Kiselgof

Cathy Clarke

Session M1E

June 23, 2008

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>> Good afternoon. My name is Linda. I work here at NTID

in the employment center, and I'm just here to welcome you

and facilitate this session. We're very happy to have some

excellent presenters here with us today to present on Video,

Video Everywhere. And they are Simon Ting, who is an

instructional developer, Cathy Clarke, who is a digital

media specialist, and Regina, who is an employment advisor

in the NTID center on employment. Our three interpreters

are Jen Proseco, Marie Bernard case and Cheryl Bovard. Our

captionist is Tammy Milcowitz. So we thank all of you tech

folks, interpreters for your support today. The

presentation will be a half hour, and then ten minutes for

questions. And they've asked us please to be on time so

that you can get to your next presentation.

So Simon.

>>SIMON TING: Hello, everybody. I hope you all can hear

okay. Can you all hear me? Can you all hear me? Okay.

First I'm going to open this presentation with a short

discussion. You know YouTube. It does nothing except let

you serve, upload and share videos on the Web site. It

first opened for the public in may 2005. 1.65 billion

dollars. So that's a lot of money.

Explosive growth of YouTube in 18 months has taken the

concept of using the web to share videos. Today there are

many Web sites similar to YouTube, all doing pretty much the

same thing. There are millions of video clips on the Web

site. Most people now think it is nothing to watch videos

in their web browsers. Most people think nothing about

watching video in their web browsers now. Many create,

upload their own videos to share with people on the web.

I'd like to discuss the characteristics of web video. We're

talking about user generated content. Produced by people

like you and me. Most videos you see on the web are

produced by people like you and me. The quality of the

production is usually not that great. There's a lot of

blurriness. But they attract thousands of viewers,

sometimes even hundreds of thousands of viewers. The

production quality -- depends on the information of the

video. Really, the point of video on the web is about

sharing information.

Sometimes videos are produced on the web, produced by

expensive equipment and hardware and software. And these

videos are either distributed on VHS or DVD. You have to

capture the video, compress it, and then upload it. And

then you have to input it on to your web page, and many

people are a little overwhelmed and don't know what to do

about this process.

Most of the videos you see on the web today are produced by

people like you and me using a Webcam, maybe costing less

than $100, or at most a mini DV camera costing under $300.

The software they use is either free or it's not that

expensive.

You can hook up your Webcam or mini DV camera to your

computer and then save your video to the hard drive, or you

can immediately upload it to the Web site. Without having

to compress or convert the video.

So nowadays, web video is easy to produce. What can we do

with this video? For teachers of deaf learners, we can

think about the web video as a kind of visual text, and sign

language is a natural language for this medium to create a

handout now, all you need to know is to learn how to use a

word processor, and to produce video you need a Webcam to

shoot a simple video that communicates what you want to

share with your students.

We don't need any fancy Hollywood special effects.

This is a recent development to the internet. We have some

older video sharing Web sites on a Web site you'll see a

link or you'll see something that you click on, and then you

can watch the video. You can watch the video on the Web

site in this old version, but there's nothing you can do to

it or with it. But now there's a new kind of Web site, and

we call this the Web 2.0. And you can upload and save your

video, but you can also do other things such as edit your

video.

And you can use a story board or a time line for that. You

can also add specific effects or subtitles, and you can add

things to your completed video in this way.

The newest Web 2.0 Web sites offer more user interaction.

They allow users to interact with each other.

With some, you can use live streaming of your video. You

can broadcast with your Webcam. Other sites allow users to

interact and talk with each other using video.

Of course, there are many benefits to Web 2.0 Web sites.

Most of these services are free and they're quite easy to

use. They're browser based so you don't need to install any

software on to your computer in order to use these features.

Of course, there are disadvantages as well. Web services

are less powerful than desk top software. Many of the Web

sites are new, and if their owners can't find a way to make

money, they have to close down their services or they may

start charging fees for their use.

If you are concerned, you could sign up for services that

are owned by Google or Yahoo, for example. Companies like

Microsoft.

Okay. We're going to do some demonstrations today, and we

hope that what you see here will help you and encourage you

to look for new ways to use technology. For the rest of the

presentation, Regina will show you how easy it is to create

your own web videos and to upload your videos to YouTube or

to other services on the web.

And Cathy will talk about some of the things you can do

using Web 2.0 services.

Then I would like to show you a captioning project that

we're working on here that we're also hoping to convert to a

Web 2.0 service. Okay.

>> Hi. I work at the NTID Service Center as an employment

advisor, and my role is to really help the students prepare

for their resumes and cover letters and also to practice for

interviewing to help them work on their interviewing skills.

I started this position last fall, and I've also been

teaching students since the fall, and I started producing a

lot of videos for my students, and what I've learned is that

the students are not always comfortable viewing videos. But

producing them on their own, for example, for their

interviewing skills, when we work on that, I've assigned

students, to ask them to use a Webcam and to sign on to the

Webcam to a prospective employer, interviewer, and I have a

list of questions that they can work on, and so for

homework, I ask them to sign these questions to the employer

into the Webcam and produce a video and then send that to me

via the E-mail so that I can view their assignments and give

them feedback on how they're done, and also my feedback is

signed into a Webcam and I give my comments in that way on

video and I send that back to the student. And that way the

student can save the video comments that I've made, and they

can save their video and work on that, and work to improve.

Also in class discussion I've used a mini DV camera for

class discussions for if we have visitors coming to class,

or recruiters for businesses, we ask that person what the

employer's looking for, what they like to see in an

interview.

And that way we have a lot of valuable information captured

on to videotape and we can upload that on to the web where

it can be viewed during class or outside of class or in

another room.

I use two different tools for video production. I use a

mini DV, and also a Webcam.

For the mini DV, I can bring it anywhere. It's so portable.

I can shoot video in the classroom. I can go outside. I

can into a conference room with my mini DV camera. It's

very portable. And then I can upload my video to the

software that I have. We'll talk about that software a

little later. As far as the Webcam, we've tested it where

you sit in front of the computer, just one person sitting in

front of the Webcam, or students themselves can sign to the

Webcam. You know, they're facing the computer. It's

different than a mini DV. Understand so far?

Okay. My purpose in demonstrating this information is not

to overwhelm you. It's very easy to produce a video and I'd

like to show you that now.

So first I'll show you the Webcam and how we do that.

Again, I use video production in my classroom a lot, but it

can be applied to a lot of different topics, I mean,

mathematics, history, you name it.

For example, a mathematics teacher could sign a lesson to a

Webcam. For example, they could be talking about formulas

or, you know, some sort of problem they could give to the

students, and then they can send that right to the students,

and they can look at that, and, you know, that information

is presented in sign language for them.

If somebody doesn't know any sign language or knows -- has a

limited knowledge of sign language, we're also adding

captioning feature to that video, or a text script could be

added to the video. It's very easy to do. Now, I'm showing

you the Webcam right now on my laptop here.

Okay. Well, the computer -- you know, there's computers all

over the world, and there's free software called Windows

Movie Maker, and it's free. It's free software that any of

you can use.

You can use for capturing video, for editing your video, and

then after that, you can upload to YouTube or anybody's own

Web site.

Right now, I'm trying to open up the software. I'm trying

to open up Windows Movie Maker to see if we can download

what I'm signing to you on the Webcam here.

Okay. While the computer's getting set up, I can show you

the mini DV camera and how to use that.

All right. Is it all right with you if I show you that

videotape just for a minute? Just for a minute. I just

want to show you for a simulated classroom environment and

you were the students in that classroom and I can show you,

you know, as though we're having a discussion in class about

some topic and how I would videotape the class during that

discussion and then how I save that to the Web site so that

later students can access that video as many times as they

want.

And then I'm going to ask somebody some kind volunteer who's

willing to come up here and just be interviewed for, again,

just a second, just kind of a one-on-one interview and I'll

show you how that process goes, videotaping that and then

uploading it.

This is the mini DV camera. It cost less than $300. And

here's a cable that goes into the laptop, or, if it doesn't

have to be plugged in. It could be recorded remotely from

the computer, and then uploaded at a later time.

Okay. Well, I'd say I've been, you know, you think you need

to practice producing a videotape about two or three times

before you feel really confident in it, but you can do it.

Students, of course, you know, being younger, their brains

are more flexible, maybe one time is enough for them to

practice.

This is Windows Movie Maker. Right now we're clicking ob on

capture from video device.

Okay. The Canon DV device, that's the one that I'm holding

here. That's -- Canon DV device is for the Webcam. This is

what we want, the Logitech. So click on Logitech -- no,

Canon DV device, and then click Next.

Now we need to come up with a title. We'll call it, well, 1

is fine, and then next. And then best quality for playback

on the computer, we find that's the best one. No, that one

takes up too much memory, so we go to the other settings,

and then 512 for broadband. We find that's perfectly

adequate for saving on the web, and then hit next.

So, as you can see from the hour glass, we're in wait mode.

Of course, in practice this went really perfectly before the

presentation, and everything went fine. And now we're here

for real, and, of course, it's being very mischievous.

All right. Okay. Now we're going to hit Start Capture.

Okay. Go ahead.

Okay. Now you can click Stop Capture, and then next you hit

Finish, click on that.

Okay. So now it's uploaded to the Windows Movie Maker

software. You can see it right there.

So later on, if I had a visitor in the classroom, I could

videotape that visitor one on one. I'm going to pick Linda.

I choose you!

Okay. Again, click on Capture from Video Device.

Okay. Next. Call it 2. Next. Hmmm.

Okay. I'm going to interview Linda. I'm going to, like,

suppose that you're some recruiter that's come to visit our

class, and I'm wondering what advice you would have for the

students.

>> I think the most important thing I would recommend to the

students would be to do research on the company that you're

applying to so that you can match your resume and your cover

letter with the skills and --

>>SIMON TING: Hold on one moment, please. Okay. Go on.

>> So you match your skills and qualifications on resume and

cover letter with that company. You show the things that

that company is doing that match with what you have to

offer.

>> Lovely. Thank you so much. Thank you! Okay. Now you

can click Stop Capture. I have a lot of valuable

information that I did require for my interview with Linda,

and I'd like to save that now and upload that into Windows

Movie Maker. You can click on Finish there. So we need to

wait just a little while while it's creating the file.

So right now I'm going to show you how you can edit your

video. And how you can drag a clip down into your time

line. Drag it on down.

That clip that we just dragged down into the time line is

from the mini DV camera of all of you.

Okay. So now I have two clips in my time line. I'd like to

add some text, and I can do that. We have the option to

make titles or credits. I have the option of whether I want

the text to appear at the beginning of the movie or at the

end of the clip, and now I entered the text.

When I'm done entering the text I click on Done, add text to

movie. And then we can play our movie.

You can make a lot of editing decisions using Windows Movie

Maker, and then when you're ready to -- you're finished, you

can upload that video to YouTube after you finish editing

that.

So you'd want to save that to your computer. Click on Save

to my Computer.

To open a video in YouTube, there are rules you have to

follow. You need to register an account with YouTube, and

then there's a place on YouTube where you can upload your

video, and you just follow the instructions that are there

on YouTube. It's very easy to do that.

You can upload your video to YouTube and then you're done.

Then you can provide a link to your students to tell them

where on the web to go find the video, and then they can

open it up in YouTube and see what the teacher said.

Thanks so much. Cathy?

>>CATHY CLARKE: Okay. Now I'm going to do a short

demonstration about how you can take video that you've

created. You can combine it with photos and audio that you

have on the web into a movie that can be shared online.

This is all done through Web sites. There's a few different

ones. The one I'm going to show you is called jumpcut, and

this is a service offered by Yahoo, and it lets you combine

all of your multimedia clips into a single movie.

When you first go to jumpcut, you log in, and I'm going to

make a quick video about deforestation, and a nice feature

of jumpcut is that you can use other people's media and grab

it and use it for your own video.

Deforestation, it's just about, like -- people cutting down

trees and contributing to global warming, so just as a

sample.

When you search for topics, you get various images and video

clips that you can use.

I'll click on this first one, which is just a news report,

and then there's a remix button on the bottom. If you click

that, it opens up an editor that you can see. There's your

video preview. Over here are various properties that you

can edit, like adding transitions and titles, and then down

below is where all of your clips show up in like a story

board.

So the first thing I want to do is trim down this video.

Because I don't want to use the whole thing, so I'll just

drag this arrow to the point where I want the video to

start, and I'll drag the other side to the point where I

want it to end.

And then I want to add some media of my own, and I've

already uploaded it, but if you have any, it's a very simple

process. So I'm just going to select what I already have,

which is a couple of images and a video clip.

And then I just drag down the clips down below. So now I

have them in the order that I want, and then I'm going to

add a transition between each clip. So you click on the

first one, then you go to clip and select, which you want,

and you'll see it adds this little yellow bar. And that's

the length of your transition, which you can change if you

want.

And the images, you can set how long you want them to

display. And transition. I'm going to just quickly do the

same thing.

And the last one, instead of a transition, I'm going to make

the duration a bit longer and I'm going to do a fade out

effect because it's the last clip of my video.

So I click Effects and then find fade out, and I'm going to

adjust the length of that so it's a bit shorter. And I'm

going to go and click Add, that will apply it.

And then I want to do the same thing at the beginning of the

video, so I'm going to click Fade In, and adjust that. And

real quickly, I'm going to add a title to this video clip I

have. And there's lots of different title parts that you

can choose from and you can preview them all. I'm going to

click Subtitle, which just enters some text at the bottom.

Okay. And then click Add. And that's it. That's just a

few of the simple things you can do. You can add more

effects if you want, but just for the sake of time, I'm

going to leave it at that. You can also add audio tracks.

And when you're done, you can preview all of these effects

as you're working through it, also. When you're done, click

Publish, type in a title, tags which will help people

identify your various clips.

And then you can choose if you want them to be public or

private. If you keep it private, other people can't use it

for their own. But if you make it public, then other people

have access to your media.

So click Publish. And now you can pass out this URL, or you

can click Post and Copy and embed the code into your own

blog, or whatever you have. But people can see your video.

The destruction of the Amazon is a major source of

carbonations driving global warming.

>>CATHY CLARKE: So you can see how it just adds those

transitions in between your clips and your subtitles, so you

can really do a lot with this tool. And it's already on the

web, so everyone can get to it. So that's my short demo of

jumpcut.

Now I'll switch back. There are other sites also that can

do the same thing. But that's a really good example.

>> We're going to have to move on to questions now. I think

the three of you make it look so easy, but I'm sure folks

have several questions they may want to ask. We have a few

minutes left for that. So would you raise your hand if you

have a question. Right here in the middle. Use the mic,

please.

>>AUDIENCE MEMBER: I was wondering how you guys handle

captioning or anything on this? Do you manually put it in?

I know when obviously when it's signing, it's not necessary,

but any other times, like the video that you're putting in

like that.

>>SIMON TING: I was going to show how we do that. We can

show you quickly here.

This is a video from YouTube. We have a caption button

here. Please click that.

On this Web site you see they divided these into clips with

the start time and the stop time and this is where you can

enter captioning for your video.

>> This is the history of YouTube. This is a story about

three friends --

>>SIMON TING: The video is kept on the YouTube server. The

captions are kept on our server, and on our web page here on

IdeaTools, you can see how it's combined.

After you hit that captioning button, you see the YouTube

video, and then you can click on the start button. When it

reaches the beginning of the segment that you want to

caption, it will pause. Click on Set Show. And then the

time will be moved on down to that window. And then when

you set the high, that's the end of the segment that you

want to caption. You click on Set Hide, that will come down

there and then when you save the captions they will be saved

on our server, but the video will be kept on YouTube server.

Right now, this is only working in our IdeaTools software.

We're hoping that eventually this could be developed into

some kind of Web 2.0 Web site that can be accessed by

everybody on the internet. You know, similar to some of

those applications that we were just showing you.

>> Question here.

>>AUDIENCE MEMBER: I have two questions. If you videotape,

do you have to get waivers from the people, you know,

waivers from people because it's public?

>>SIMON TING: You assume that if you can see the video, if

it's accessible to people, then you're allowed to work with

it. If it's private, our server won't let you see it.

So you can copy and paste your YouTube video link. If it's

got a URL that's accessible to the public then it's okay.

If it's a private video you won't be able to get the URL,

and so that won't be an issue. So you can start captioning

this video because it is accessible to the public.

>> Can you ask him at the end on your own? Because -- I'm

sorry, see people are starting to leave. We really want to

ask you to do your evaluation form. You can go to the NTID

learning center to log in to the Web site for the tech

symposium and do it there. If anyone would prefer a paper

copy, I have maybe ten or so of them here that you can pick

up.

I want to thank Simon, Cathy and Regina for their excellent

presentation, and if anyone has extra questions you can come

up front. But thank you again for coming.

[Applause]

>>SIMON TING: There will be two other related

presentations. One will be on Tuesday at 1 p.m., multimedia

lesson design for the design novice, and there will be

showing more Web 2.0 Web sites.

And then Wednesday there's another workshop, video

conferencing using open source software and we will be

showing you live Webcam streaming for distance learning and

communications. This is an application we've created here

ourselves.

If you have the time, we'd be happy to see you there.

[Applause]

>> For your evaluation, the session number is M1.