Mechanics Minilesson #1!
I’m trying a (yet another) new thing for teaching, putting together “minilessons” for my Physics 1a class at UCSD covering specific topics that I don’t get to in lecture, or are worth a little focused attention. This was a somewhat intensive project as time is short (the quarter has already started!) and I’ve never made a “video enhanced podcast” before, but I think I’ve got must of the bugs worked out. You’ll nevertheless clearly notice some audio edits.
The audio was recorded on my laptop (built-in mic) into Garage Band; the slides were made in Powerpoint and saved off as individual images, and then individually dragged into the podcast track in Garage Band. The whole thing was saved off as a AAC encoded .m4a file that Youtube seems to be able to handle.
Have a look, let me know what you think and if you learned anything! The lectures themselves are also being audio and video podcast from UCSD.
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17 January 2010 at 9:10 pm
Educating by Podcast: A Lesson from Mark Pentleton « nebulium on neith
[...] This is an excellent roadmap for all kinds of educational podcasts (with a Mac), such as the Mechanics Minilessons I’m trying (slowly) to produce for my Physics 1A [...]
21 June 2011 at 3:18 pm
john smith
Too much time in a black screen.
Too fast transitions of some of the text.