Using Videos in WHSC Library eLearning Projects

Gonghua Liu, Ph.D.

Instructional Designer & Technologist

Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library, Emory University

People we are serving – students, residents, faculty members

•The School of Medicine

•School of Nursing

•School of Public Health

•Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences

•Emory Healthcare

Help Library users use the library & access resources in different ways

•Face to face consultation

•Classroom instruction

•Workshop

•Online communication

•eLearning modules

WHSC Library

eLearning: An alternative teaching or learning option•Informationist• Instructors in class• Content developer

•Media developer: • Write storyboard• Design layout• Add media elements

Two Web-based instructional formats:• Interactive primers (using JavaScript)• Text content with images & animation• Spry• Ressessing • Video based eLearning modules

eLearning

Presentational video

•Presentation, speech, interview

Camtasia video

•Multimedia presentation communicating information

Screencast video

•Similar to Camtasia but concentrate on screen-based learning activities

Flash Animation

•Animation created from Flash and embedded in the text-based eLearning modules

Types of video used

Creating video

•Camcorder: A portable video camera and video recorder

•Basic camcorder operating skills: how to use viewfinder, focus (auto) and zoom, panning (using tripod)

Quality

•Hardware: lens, CCD and resolution

•Shooting skills: Composition, lighting, framing, backdrop

Conversion

•AVI, MPEG

Software editing (Adobe Premiere Elements)

•Import video file

•Editing: Remove unwanted parts / No extra audio / Select a video format

Deployment

•HTML tags

•Dreamweaver

Presentational Video

Presentational video

Creating video•Camtasia Studio: Timeline based media presentation tool•Media assets: internal (callouts) and external•Script (content document)•Storyboard (detailed media use – where & when)•Audio driven (storyboard is created based on the narration file)•Creativity (graphic design, color, background music)•Finished video: multiple options •Deployment: Save options • Formats: wmv, mov, avi, mp4, etc. • Players• Transfer the html code from generated file to the styled

file.

Camtasia Video

Camtasia Video

• Jing: capture image & video (less labor intensive)

• No external and internal media elements• No media editing tools • Less creativity (footage content is “recorded”)• Concentrating on screen activity• Annotate captured images: balloon & arrows• Good for demonstrating a process (short period)• Audio (narration) is also important • Script is useful (possible recording while

narrating)• Frame rate: limited to 10 fps• Video format: SWF (Dreamweaver) or FLV

Screencast Video

Screencast video

• Flash Professional

• Animation used in interactive primers as secondary content

• Creativity is the key: interesting and capturing viewer’s attention

• Animation can be created in different ways

• Timeline animation: Classic tween, motion tween, shape tween and frame to frame animation.

• ActionScript animation (ActionScript)

• Can be saved in different video formats: SWF only

• Deployment: SWF or converted formats

Flash Animation Video

Flash animation (video)