DFI - Reflection Three - Media

This weeks focus was on the variety of different ways to present information.

• Creating a video
• Applying a green screen
• Podcasting
• YouTube
• Google Drawing
• Google Slides

Creating a Video

When creating a video it is important to consider the different ways to ensure that your video is a good quality video. 

• Check that the camera is steady.
• Landscape videos
• Check windows around the room for the optimal lighting. 

Different Video apps for both computers and/or ipads:

• Screen Castify
• Adobe Spark
• We Video
• Imovie
• Clips
• Quicktime

For live streaming:

• GoogleMeet
• Drones
• Youtube

Green Screen

Different methods to remove background:

• remove.bg
• keynote
• photobooth
• When including background it needs to be a block colour. Colour needs to contrast the colour of the person's skin tone/eyes. 

Podcasting

Could use:

• Song maker
• Online recorder - slideshow, screencastify
• Apps - Garageband, Camera app

YouTube

When discussing YouTube it is important to remember that children at school do not have YouTube channels as you need to be 18 to sign up to this. This is also a challenging place to manage and moderate comments.
For a Teacher's YouTube channel the upload needs to be unlisted. Commenting needs to be turned off. It is recommended that videos are shared via blogs/the drive so that children are not getting distracted by other videos that are popping up.
We created a YouTube playlist. To do this, under the video click add playlist. This will be great for choir when I am repetitively using the same YouTube clips. Under the video it says 'add playlist.' 

Google Drawing

This is a tool that reminds me of Publisher. This is great for creating images, posters etc. 

A great thing to do is to save an image of a film and link a screen castify of the task for the children to view. 

I need to remember to save the image as PNG - File - Download - PNG

Google Slides

A great presentation tool! This is great to make mini animations on, adding audio, images etc. It is important to remind children to ditch the defaults. Encourage them to embrace the blank slides. It is important to check that there is consistent formatting. 

You can embed slide onto a Google Site. 

Reminders for Me

I will need to spend some time this week using Google Slides and Google Drawing. I just need to refresh my memory with hoe to use some of the tools and shortcuts so I can do this at a later date.