Mondays 20/03/17 class.

In today’s class, I created the Padlet instruction video, for session 2.

This was the first time I have used the software CamStudio.

During class, we were informed about the software and its flexibility with recording video, and video with audio.

This time I decided not to include audio.  This was because it was still during class time and it was quite noisy.

After recording the Padlet access and upload process, the recording came out really well on my first attempt.  I then decided to upload the video to YouTube, as this was recommended by my lecturer, as it was flexible to edit the video to my liking.

It was also my first time using YouTube in this way.  It was a day of several firsts! 🙂

I opened up YouTube and it seemed quite straight forward to upload the video recording, however, it took me a little while to figure out how I could add annotations (the text boxes) to the video.  After a little play around with all the tabs, my lecturer and I worked it out together.

Again, I feel that the video and addition of annotations, came out really well for my first attempt…even if I do say so myself.  As this was a day of firsts, I feel quite chuffed and proud of myself for giving something different a try.  As mentioned before, I consider myself to be quite tech-literate, but I am aware (even more so now) that there are many software systems that I was not aware about prior to starting this module.

Being honest, I was a little worried giving it a go, as all time spent on this project has been valuable, as I didn’t want to risk making a mistake and use more time making adjustments; also time during class, as I wanted to make the most out of the class learning and having a great lecturer there to help and advise when required.