Final Project: Reflective Synthesis | EAC 539 Teaching in the Online Environment | Fall 2020
Old Media Video: moving pictures, videotape, digital recordings...
Old-media video was very complicated, video cameras were obtrusive, and it was a chore to move data electronically. It today's world it is very easy to get video posted online, especially with social media services. I took this video of an egret in Umstead Park using my iPhone. I then asked my wife to video me "scrubbing"on my phone. Scrubbing is moving the video forwards or backwards to locate a particular part of a video for review or analysis. It is a form of interaction similar to flipping through a book in search of a page or pages or a particular topic.
("Scrubbing" is an important topic in multimedia research, especially in regards to Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs): see search results on "mooc video scrubbing" at Google Scholar)
The video was delivered to me by my wife and I downloaded it to my computer. Since this website is built from scratch, and does not have automatic conversion like Facebook or Twitter, I had to upload the .mov file to cloudconvert.com/mov-to-mp4 and then downloaded the .MP4 file. I then embedded it into this page. Therefore, the video is directly hosted on my server.
This video was not edited at all. If it needed to be edited, I would have used Adobe Premier as I have use of that product via my Adobe Creative Cloud subscription. Very good free video editing alternatives are now available. Here are two popular options that are very robust and perfectly acceptable for creating online learning content:
Lesson 6: Multimedia