1. Using Video in Face-to-Face Teaching Practice (With YouTube)
Tom Tsiliopoulos
Centennial College

2. Welcome!

3. About Me Teaching technology courses to Adult students since 2011.
Professor at Centennial College (software engineering and interactive gaming).
Currently sharing 1305 videos on YouTube (Mostly Lectures)

4. What started all this? Started teaching in 2011.
Students indicated that I was going too fast and it was difficult to follow along with me.
I wanted to enhance the student experience and provide additional resources (beyond the textbook and lecture slides)
I didn’t want this to be an excuse for students not attending class

5. Technology Challenges
2011 was a weird time - struggled with finding the right technology to record
QuickTime
OBS
Camtasia
ScreenFlow

6. Video Post-production
After recording it was necessary to perform some production work
Transcode the video content into a format compatible to view
Upload the video to YouTube or Vimeo – usually a long process

7. Enter YouTube Live Streaming
Introduced around the end of 2011 (with restrictions)
YouTube relaxed the requirements in 2013
Anyone can stream video with a verified account
Account must be in good standing

8. Getting Started with YouTube

9. How to do it? Setup a Gmail account

10. How to do it? (cont’d) Navigate to YouTube and sign in
Click on the user icon on the top-left corner of the screen
Click on Creator Studio

11. How to do it? (cont’d)
Click on Live Streaming

12. How to do it? (cont’d) YouTube will ask you to create a channel
Click Create Channel

13. How to do it? (cont’d)
Click on Events

14. How to do it? (cont’d)
Click on Enable live streaming

15. How to do it? (cont’d) YouTube will ask you to verify your account
verification is required in order to stream live and record your videos

16. How to do it? (cont’d)
Click New live event

17. How to do it? (cont’d)
Click New live event

18. How to do it? (cont’d)
Fill in your event information

19. How to do it? (cont’d)
Click Go live now

20. How to do it? (cont’d)
YouTube notifies you that you will be using Google Hangout On Air. Click OK.

21. Pros and Cons

22. Pros
Students can listen and ask questions and participate instead of trying to keep up with you.
Students can watch your lectures at a later time
Students can ”catch up” when they miss a class
Students can watch live - remotely

23. Cons Students may not attend as often…
Students may start depending on your recordings…
What about board work? How is that captured?
Engaging Students remotely

24. What about Board work?

25. What about engagement?

26. What about engagement?

27. Lecture Recording Best Practices

28. Stop recording and take a break
Stop recording when it makes sense…
When you finish describing an assignment
When you are finished speaking about a chapter or module of work
When you need to take a break
Don’t record longer than 60 minutes at a time

29. It’s better to plug in
Quite often Wi-Fi is not reliable enough to stream video to YouTube without an interruption

30. You need a good Mic
There’s nothing worse than publishing a video and having poor sound
Solution: Get a decent Mic
I use the Blue Microphones Snowball
Currently $56.99 CAD (Amazon)

31. …stuff happens Sometimes the internet will drop
Sometimes the feed will be interrupted (somehow)

32. Backup Use screen recording software to capture your screen
MAC -> ScreenFlow
Windows -> OBS or Camtasia
Transcode and Upload to YouTube later

33. Contact Tom Tsiliopoulos Centennial College
YouTube

34. Thank you