1. Harnessing Digital Video for Instruction
Wayne Miller
Director of Educational Technologies, Duke Law School

2. Do you need ideas for incorporating digital video technology into the classroom?

3. Bringing Video Into Focus

4. Bringing Video Into Focus
Student
focus

5. Bringing Video Into Focus
Student
focus
Instructor
focus

6. Student focus Record classes for later review by students
Record guided student interactions
Play video for discussion and analysis
Have students record video:
Interviews, documentary footage
Create story line and record performance
Collages and analyses of clips

7. Instructor focus Record lecture “modules” as resources
Record demonstrations or instructions
Record guest speakers for use in future
Record simulations for discussion
Record scenarios for debate and discussion

8. Equipment Needs – Components

9. Equipment Needs – Components
Mini – DV [digital video format] camera

10. Equipment Needs – Components
Plenty of room for camera upgrades–
3 CCD; HD

11. Equipment Needs – Components
Microphones – wired or wireless
(sound quality is key!)

12. Equipment Needs – Components
Lighting kit (optional)

13. Equipment Needs – Components
Editing station
- Macintosh preferred

14. Equipment Needs – Components
Editing station
- Macintosh preferred
Connection is usually iLink – firewire

15. Equipment Needs – Components
Editing/Publishing Software, such as
free iMovie / iDVD or
Final Cut Pro / DVD Studio

16. Equipment Needs – Components
Upgrades – disc array (disk space is key)

17. Equipment Needs – Components
Upgrades – DV decks

18. Human Resource Needs Video Specialist No more (less)
expensive than IT staff
Try local resources:
Film/Media Studies
Communications
Student TV station

19. Approaches: Recording Presentations

20. Recording Presentations

21. Recording Presentations
Encode for online streaming via Real, Windows Media Encoder, QuickTime

22. Recording Presentations
Encode for online streaming via Real, Windows Media Encoder, QuickTime
Encode for downloading as a Real, Windows Media, QuickTime, MPEG4, or other file type

23. Recording Presentations
Encode for online streaming via Real, Windows Media Encoder, QuickTime
Encode for downloading as a Real, Windows Media, QuickTime, MPEG4, or other file type
Encode with additional “smarts”

24. Recording Presentations
Missing from the lens
Transcript - July 12, 2006
Wayne Miller: I want to say a few things about that….
Fred Finklestein: Can you clarify?
Wayne Miller: Probably not….

25. Recording Presentations
Apreso - Record VGA and audio

26. Recording Presentations
Windows Media Encoder – Record voice and screen

27. Recording Presentations
Accordent – synchronize slides with video

28. Recording Presentations
Magpie – tool for captioning video

29. Recording Presentations
Virage – video capture, encoding and
searching

30. Approaches: Faculty Video Projects

31. Project Definition Define goals Shoot video and gather materials Edit
Distribute
Evaluate

32. Project Scope (Duke Examples)
Farm out – production company,
software development

33. Project Scope (Duke Examples)
Introductory videos
Expert commentaries
(I G 4 f)
Scenarios for discussion
(VII B 1)

34. Project Scope (Duke Examples)
Internal – infrastructure in place,
video and website

35. Project Scope (Duke Examples)
Trailers
Case Videos
Party Narrative

38. Approaches: Student Video Projects

39. Student Recordings
Students use their creativity to create videos to illustrate legal points

40. Student Recordings
Students use their creativity to create videos to illustrate legal points
Students record their own practice, for self-, group or instructor critique

41. Student Recordings
Students use their creativity to create videos to illustrate legal points
Students record their own practice, for self-, group or instructor critique
Perhaps a melding... ?

42. “Here’s an idea”: Resource Recordings

43. Resource Recordings
Research skills can not only be usefully taught in person, but may also be fruitfully “virtualized”
Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words, and a moving picture many more
A library of up-to-date resources can be put to use for many courses and situations

44. Resource Recordings
Problem: Video resources are time-consuming and need constant updating / supplementing

45. Resource Recordings
Problem: Video resources are time-consuming and need constant updating / supplementing
Possible Solution: Have students help create video resources under instructor review and with staff support

46. Harnessing Digital Video for Instruction
Wayne Miller