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Narrator: OTAN. Outreach and Technical Assistance Network.

Nitya Ramanan: All right. So if you had a chance to look at the quiz, then it's just basically to give you an idea. It's like to set the background for what you're going to do today, which is how you can create videos, and video lessons, and also embed a few different segments to add variety using screen files. ScreenPal is a free tool for the most part, except, you know, if you want to go really advanced, then you know, it's very inexpensive though, if you want to subscribe to it.

So that's something you can look into later based on what features you want to use. But ScreenPal is usually called Screencast-O-Matic. Has anybody heard of it or used it before? So you have used it before? So have you used it a lot? Just a little bit? How familiar are you with the use of this tool?

Audience: I use it to create videos, and then I upload them onto like YouTube, and then present it to students.

Nitya Ramanan: OK. So we have. So many have already used it, you know, before in lesson. And what is your motivation behind using it? Why do you use usually create those videos?

Audience: I'm a transition counselor for our college, and so I'll just do videos like "How to request your parking permit?"

Nitya Ramanan: OK.

Audience: How to apply to the college.

Nitya Ramanan: OK, so it's like informational videos, right? So basically we have a variety of different reasons why we could use the tool besides also creating social media presence if you like to. So if you look at this quiz, we go over these four different learner styles, which is visual, auditory, which is the how well you listen and learn.

Often, you'll find people with their head down looking at the other piece of paper while they listen to the instructor or the lecturer speaking. So that's more auditory. You can process better if you listen to yourself. So that's one of the reasons why you would find people not always looking at the instructor but also just trying to listen and process. Then we have those people who read and write, who like to take notes to review what they have learned.

And then we have kinesthetic. Those are the people who like to do things with their hands like modeling makers, making things and all of those other ways of being more-- using tactile means of learning. This is kind of like a term that was first coined by a researcher whose name is Neil Fleming. And as you've seen before and as you can see, you see, we can use it in a variety of different ways in creating lessons for students and our peers as well when we create professional development.

So the objectives for this presentation today are to explore a new tool, if you haven't used it before, that integrates educational technology into adult curriculum planning and instruction. We can use videos and create videos for use in lesson. It doesn't have to be a long video, a full length video, but there's a variety of different lengths that we can choose to create them in.

And we will also learn about creating embedded assignments with ScreenPal and learn how to look at the results and get an idea as to how your students are faring in that particular topic. And then you can evaluate for yourself as to whether or not you would like to proceed and use this as a tool to incorporate in your lesson planning in the future.

Audience: [muffled voices]

Nitya Ramanan: So do have AI do have a tendency to speed up the pace of my speech. So if I'm going too fast, please do slow down because sometimes it's just automatic. I know a lot of these people will complain every now and then, but if anybody else also has the same complaint, you let me know.

Audience: [muffled voices]

Nitya Ramanan: So just as a brainstorming or just as a something to throw out to the audience right now, what are some of the reasons that anybody might use videos in lesson planning besides the learner styles that we just looked at in the beginning?

Audience: So I want them to hear the language.

Nitya Ramanan: So yeah, that's a very good--

Audience: And follow along.

Nitya Ramanan: Yes. OK. So you want them to hear the language and follow along. Would that be for English language learners?

Audience: Yeah.

Nitya Ramanan: OK. So that's one reason. Anybody else? What would be some of the reasons, in addition to these, that you would want to create videos for students? Oh.

Audience: [muffled voices]

Audience: Maybe to demonstrate how to do something with it. So I teach computer so maybe to demonstrate--

Nitya Ramanan: Maybe to demonstrate.

Audience: When they exercise.

Nitya Ramanan: OK to demonstrate an exercise. Jennifer, yes.

Audience: Sometimes, they miss class, and so they want to stay on track.

Nitya Ramanan: Sure. When they miss class, then you want them to catch up or to understand what's being taught the day that they missed class. And then, of course, to make them engaging and interactive, as adult instructors and educators, we have all heard the term andragogy repeated over and over again, and adult learning principles, which talks about how adults learn in different ways as compared to children.

And that also includes the fact that we learn like small bites of information. There that minimizes the cognitive overload. So using videos and using them to create little small bursts of information allows people to absorb information better. It gives them a little bit more variety. They can interact or get engaged with the content. And so it's one of the ways in which a lot of instructional designers are moving towards in creating curriculum and content for adults.

And of course, it also uses the principles of chunking, which is very famously talked about in instructional design, where instead of using larger segments of information, you have really short bites of information for. Whether it's a video or whether it's just a small piece of text that's highlighted in the box, whether it's an image or a graphic, chunking refers to how you break up the content into more digestible pieces of information for the learner. So basically, it talks about adding more variety in different ways for people to absorb the same information.

And then, of course, like, you know, someone said is when you miss class, you know, you can access the content remotely and catch up on what's been missed.

So what are some types of educational or instructional videos? Educational videos are really quickly becoming the cornerstone of many flipped, blended and online classes, especially post COVID. Everything is hybrid. We have a lot of classes that are offered in a hybrid format like this one as well. And so there are different ways in which lessons are being disseminated or taught with instructional videos.

And these are some of the examples of the main categories of educational videos. That is, there are short videos of micro videos, as they are called, that address specific concepts or topics. Usually about a minute long. And also research has shown that about a minute long is kind of the attention span for a person to be able to absorb content successfully, and to get the information, and to make connections with prior knowledge and to build a better picture of what's happening. So those are highly recommended.

Of course, then you can also have longer lectures. Like if you go to take college level, University level lectures, a lot of time, they are asynchronous. And then at that point of time, you'll find instructors recording entire lessons 45 minutes long and presenting them via Canvas. So that is another way of using video instruction and then screencasts or computer screen recording that includes active demonstrations or explanations of actions, including math or computer science and features of a program as well.

Screencasts could also include capturing screenshots, and annotating them maybe, and also using those for students to understand and enhance their learning. So there's multiple ways in which we could use videos or imagery in instruction.

Audience: I have a question, Nitya.

Nitya Ramanan: Yes.

Audience: You mentioned the like our attention span is about a minute. Do you think it has become a minute, or do you think it was longer but just because we've been training ourselves, watching shorts and using a lot of social media, it's become shorter? What do you think--

Nitya Ramanan: No, I don't think it-- the research is not that recent. That it indicates that it's because of social media use or because of technology or like mobile phone use, but it's just research based in general as to how adult learners learn, and even in general, how people learn. And it's kind of been established that a 1-minute video segment is kind of ideal for to absorb information.

Audience: That's the reason why a lot of things are short now because that's what keeps your attention and that's how long you can actually take.

Nitya Ramanan: Of course, if you go on Instagram and you can't expect to be watching a one-minute video. That's too long. Then it has to be like 5 seconds or 10 seconds, right? So if you really accelerate it and really quick. But in terms of learning, I think one minute is the research base recommended time limit for people to be able to successfully grasp information.

This is a video created using Screencast-O-Matic [audio out]. And you could use it to provide feedback.

So this is an example of one of how I use Screencast-O-Matic with a talking head. So if you do have slides and you're not able to present it to them, you can always record your slides with the talking head with the webcam option. And then you can also annotate the screen, or you can point to different elements of your screen while you're recording it to call attention to it. So this is one way in which you can use this tool. You can use Screencast-O-Matic or ScreenPal.

Audience: Excuse me for a minute, Miss, I need to step out, can somebody take over the monitoring just for a couple of minutes?

Audience: I'll do it.

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Audience: --anybody wants to come in, they'll come in.

Audience: Go ahead.

Audience: And why?

Audience: Because I'll be covering this session more.

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Nitya Ramanan: So let's get down to what it actually is. So what is ScreenPal? ScreenPal used to be known as Screencast-O-Matic. In fact, if you try to sign up for different parts, as you go through the signup process, you still find that they haven't changed their own names. Some of their screens still say Screencast-O-Matic, but it's actually ScreenPal now.

And it's a free tool. Like I said, for the most part, it has multiple options that you can use. It has a speed recorder, which is another word for print screen that we have on our keyboards. It has a video editor, a video recorder. You can create storyboards and scripts, which of course, is a paid feature.

You can capture and annotate screenshots, which is a free feature, and you can create video quizzes, which again, you do have to pay for. Although as I said before, it's not as expensive as many of the other tools that are out there, so they have managed to keep it fairly affordable since it was launched. And it's been around for a few years actually.

So especially the embedded quizzes and polls, they are really nice. Because you can just insert them anywhere, and you can not only have students take those quizzes anonymously, but you can also have them sign in with a name, so you can record who's taking the quizzes and how they're doing it. So it has a variety of nice features, which are pretty easy to analyze and look at, and get some feedback on how they're learning.

So here's how you would start creating your ScreenPal account. So I would like you to go to screenpal.com and hit slash login, and then you would see this screen. On the Chromebook, you might have to go to google.com and go to the Google Store to get it, but it also has a web interface, so if you just go to screenpal.com/login it should allow you to-- Yeah, that's the one.

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Audience: --page I have to create.

Nitya Ramanan: But even if you hit login, it will ask you to create an account.

Audience: Oh, yeah.

Nitya Ramanan: So once you come to this screen, either you can sign in with your Google account, if you're already logged in. Let's say you want to connect it to a Google account that you use all the time, then you can just click on Sign In with Google, and it'll ask you for your Google password and you can just go from there. So it'll ask you to choose an account like this. So you can choose whichever account you want to associate it with.

So if you pass this, then this is the next screen, where you can skip the setup Educator, Education Account, Business, Personal, you can skip that. And then now when you go, you should see, once you logged in, you should see your screen. Do you see the screen?

Audience: Yeah.

Nitya Ramanan: So if you look at the screen, either you may come to the home page like this or you come to this screen that says, take a screenshot or make a recording. So these two options. Since I already have a video in there, it brings me to this page, where I have the video with it. But if it's your first time, just login, then it will give you the option to see the screenshot, or make a recording. So you have those two options there.

So first I want you to try taking a screenshot. And for that, I want you to go to Create. So when you go to Create and click on the down arrow on Create, it gives you the option for Capture Screenshot. So it's asking you to set it up.

Audience: How different is this screenshot to the one we already have in our computer?

Nitya Ramanan: So the difference is that, when you use the print screen on your computer, you're going to have to paste it somewhere to edit it. So this is your frame. So this is the frame that you can set.

You can drag the corners, or you can drag it down from these handle here. So you have four and four, eight handles. And you can adjust the size of the screen that you're taking the screenshot for, and then you can just capture exactly that.

And then once it's here, then you can directly edit it, so you don't have to go through multiple applications. If you use the print screen feature, then you're going to have to take a print screen. And then you have to paste it into paint, or some other image editing tool. And then you have to crop it. And then you may not have the options to annotate it or to embellish it with more information. But with this, it gives you all of those tools.

So if you want to take a screenshot, the way you can do it is, you take a screenshot. And once you take a screenshot, you'll see that you can adjust the frame around it. So you can go to any other window, any other side, and take a screenshot of what you want.

And when you're done with taking a screenshot, you will see the image in your dashboard. And then you can click on it to edit it, and you can add more information. So I'll get to that in a minute when I finish up set up for it.

So if you see here, that's the screen that I captured. And these are the tools on the side to edit them. So I basically took a screen capture of my ScreenPal home page. So if you look to the right here, you'll see the tools here, there's Arrow, then there's Freehand, there's a Shape tool, there's an Image tool, there's a Blur tool, there are Steps, there's Text, and there's Highlight.

So if you click on, let's say, the Arrow tool, and you can add an arrow. So basically, if you click on that, it'll allow you to choose the style of arrow that you want over here. You can choose whatever style, if you want it to look like this. And then you can just draw the arrow here, or wherever you want it to point to. So that's how you can add more to your screen capture.

If you want to blur something out, then you can just select the area that you want to blur out, and that's going to blur it like this. So let's say you have names, or you have an email address in your screen capture that you don't want people to see, you can just use the Blur tool, and you can blur that information out. Or if it's sensitive information, student names, a number that you don't want shared. So you can use the Blur tool for that.

If you want to use the Freehand, that's where you can just go Freehand, and you can write. So I'm using my fingertip, and I'm trying to write on my touchscreen. If you have a stylus, you can use a stylus as well to do that. You can add text. So you can just add whatever kind of text you want. Choose your style over here. What kind of font, what color text. That's a text color.

Then you can choose the what color background. You can have a green background, you can have a red background. Most of the colors that you can choose from, that palette you can include there.

You can have a shadow for your text if you like to make it a little fancier. And you can also add callouts. So you can make your text box a callout. So, for example, if I say Callout, and yes, you see here, I can drag this little point here to make it a callout.

So if you'd like to take a few minutes and just play around with your screenshot, or your screen capture, and see how these different tools work, it'll give you a better idea of how you can use it to make a more attractive screenshot or image for our students to look at. You can also use it to, let's say you have a biology lesson, and you want to label different parts, or you want to call attention to different parts of an organism, then you can also use this feature. So if you take a screenshot of something from the internet, and you can-- like Wikimedia images or something, which is allowed for copying and modifying, and then you can add all these different annotations around for that.

So then you can click done, and then you can save it. And then you can save it as whatever you want. And then that will be--

Audience: I don't see that now.

Nitya Ramanan: At the bottom of your screen.

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Audience: The rest you can save it to in your desktop?

Nitya Ramanan: No, save it to your Cloud account. It'll save it to your account Cloud. So here, this one is saving it automatically.

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Audience: Oh.

Audience: Unless you want to.

Nitya Ramanan: So there's two ways for you to finish this. So if you look at the top over here, it says Done Editing Image. So when you're done with this image and you click on that, it's going to help you edit from there. So it's going to save whatever you have done. And then you're going to see it on your dashboard there. Once you click Done Editing Image, it'll save it for you on your dashboard.

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And then you can edit it further, or you can download it to your desktop, or share it from there. So then from here, you have more options again. So you can save it, or you can download it, and then you can share it with your students.

Audience: So when in Audit, it says it autosaves.

Nitya Ramanan: Yeah, it auto saves it.

Audience: So then it auto saves. So if you happen to shut down--

Nitya Ramanan: It will still be there. Yes, so if you happen to accidentally log out, or your computer shuts down-- it's like Google Drive basically, whatever you're doing in Google, even if your computer shuts down, it'll still get saved in the Cloud. So this is saving everything in the Cloud.

But remember, as a free user, you only have so much allowance in terms of space, so it's highly unlikely that you will max it out, unless you create a whole bunch of images and videos. For the most part, it's fairly sufficient for our use. But in case you want to have more images, then you could always install it to your desktop, or your laptop, and then you can have it saved on your desktop. So that way you know have more space.

Audience: Forever?

Nitya Ramanan: Yeah. Of course. So this is one way of using ScreenPal, is by using the screenshot.

Audience: So this is something that we could upload to YouTube.

Nitya Ramanan: This is just an image, you don't have--

Audience: Oh, not-- OK.

Nitya Ramanan: So when we go to Record, that's when we'll actually do the recording part of it. So let's move on to the next slide. Let me get out of this, and I'll move on to the next one. So now I don't know how I can share this with you, because that's where I was hoping to take the help of the room monitor.

I have a document that I was hoping to share with you so you could just record it with the talking head or the Webcam Only option, or the Screen option, and then we could edit it. But if you already have a document available to you, then you can just open the document that you would like to talk about, and then I can show you how to record it and how to add all the other little annotations to it.

So let me go through this first one time, and then that way I can give you an idea as to what I'm actually going to talk about. I'm going to stop sharing over here. So this is the document that I wanted to use with my ScreenPal recording option just to give you a demonstration. So what I'm doing here is, I'm going to have this document open.

And as you see, the first page is blank. And then I have instructions over here in the second portion of it. So this is just a very small demonstration.

So what I'm going to do over here at this moment is, I open the document already, then I'm going to launch ScreenPal. I'm going to hit the Record, adjust the frame, and then start recording. So those are the steps I'm going to do first. So when I go back to my document--

Audience: [muffled voices]. See, I never

Nitya Ramanan: No, because you haven't hit the Recording tool yet.

Audience: Oh.

Nitya Ramanan: So that's why I'm going to show you right now.

Audience: Oh, OK.

Nitya Ramanan: So I'm going to go here. So I'm going to go to ScreenPal. Now it's not showing me this way. I'll change. And I'm over here now. So I'm going to be over here. So I'm going to go, and I'm going to say Create, and I'm going to say Launch Recorder. Now it's initializing the online recorder. So if you see now, I'm going to share the portion where it shows you the dotted lines.

Can you see the dotted lines now? So now I have a handle here in the middle, which I can use to move it around. So I can move it by holding the handle and moving it around, that's one way to move it. Or I can also use the handles on the sides to reduce or increase the size of the screen.

Audience: So you could show half a screen.

Nitya Ramanan: So I could show half a screen, I could show whatever area I want to display. So that's what I choose. So I can also bring it down like this, and I could make it smaller. But then I could bring it down, so that I can access my tabs.

And now what I want to record is something else. So what I want to record is this screen over here. So now that's what I want to record. So I went to the tabs, and I clicked on the screen that I want to record. So I have that screen up at the back. And want to make sure it's got all the areas that I want to record. For example, I want this tool to also be recorded on the top, when I want the entire screen or the frame of the document to be recorded, so pulled it aside.

I don't want these tools on the side. I don't care about the Google tools, so I'm just going to cut that out of the frame. And if you look here, you have the three options. So this is only the screen. If you want people to only look at the screen, that's the option. Then that is the camera option, that is only going to focus on me, only the speaker, or the person who's in front of the camera. And then when you see both, that's where you can record yourself speaking, as well as the screen.

So for this, I'm going to choose the Both option. So now if you see, it's positioning me over there, you can't see me because of the way it's setup there. Now I can always position, this will be at the bottom or somewhere else.

I can choose to have it whichever corner of the screen I want, it doesn't always have to be in one spot. So I can move it around. I can move it here, I can move to any part of the screen that I want it to move to. Is everybody following along, did you guys get that? Yeah?

Audience: Yeah.

Nitya Ramanan: So I can basically move it anywhere, to whichever portion. I can also make it a little bit shorter if you want, so that it's not as big. So I can just move it out like this. And only within that frame is what's going to be recorded. Whatever is not in that frame will not get recorded. So now once I have this set up, if you look at the size here--

Audience: So you're saying, if you find yourself out of that frame, it's not going to show you.

Nitya Ramanan: So it's not going to record what's on here, it's only going to record what's over here. So this is the frame within which everything gets recorded, so that's how it's going to record. So once we have that set, and now make sure the toolbar is in here, I don't want the bottom, I don't want all of the desktop icons, I want to cut that out. I want to take this out. I don't want people to see my browsing tabs. So you just focus on the area that you want to focus on.

And then once you set your frame, you choose how you want to record, depending on what kind of recording it is. If it's something that you want to just show a picture and talk about it later, or add some music, then you can choose only screen. But if it's like a guided lesson, an Excel sheet, or something where you want to explain something to your students, then you can choose Both. Because having your face there also adds teacher presence, so it makes it a little bit more personal as if they're in the classroom.

So if you choose this Both option, Max side is you allow the maximum recording time to be set. It'll stop automatically after that. So if you don't set it, then it'll just run as long as you want it to run. And then when you stop it, it will be stopped.

So if you go to the bottom here, this is actually set, go to the circles. If I click this little circle here, it changes it to a circle, so you can see yourself in that little circle at the bottom.

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Audience: Oh, you made a circle?

Nitya Ramanan: Yeah. [overlapping voices].

Audience: Oh OK,

Nitya Ramanan: And then I click on the-- then that's a circle.

Audience: OK.

Nitya Ramanan: Right?

Audience: Yeah.

Nitya Ramanan: And then Narration, if you want to talk as you record, then you want to turn the Narration on, so that people can hear what you're saying. So right now, I have it off. But if you want to have to speak and explain as you going through your slides, or through your document, or your lesson, then you can choose. What is that?

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So you can choose either the microphone, or you can just say, turn it off. So that then it won't record what you're speaking, you don't want to speak into it. Or it can record computer audio if there's something happening on the computer, it's like a movie or recording. A small clip of a movie that you want to insert into your lesson, then you can also use this tool to just capture that portion, and then you can insert it into your lesson.

So now I'm going to hit record over here. And I've chosen the talking head, and I'm going to move myself to the top over here in this corner, just because. And then I'm going to hit Record. And then it's going to give you the countdown. And then now you can record whatever you like within that screen. So, for example, if I was in the screan where I was-- OK, what happened to my document, it's not really the document.

Now over here, if I'm over here, so I'm just going to go down. It says I'm showing students how to edit a document or how to correct something in a document. So it says, follow instructions to practice your formatting and editing skills. Change all margins to 1 inch, using the page layout tab.

So I'm going to show them how to do that. So I'm going to say go to File, and then go down, go to Page Setup, and then we will relaunch it. Go to File, go to Page Setup, and then from there I'm going to set all the margins that are over here. So I can change them to 1, so that all the top, bottom left, and right margins are 1. So this is just a demonstration, but I'm doing it using this video.

And then it says center this line. So this line originally, if it's not centered, then I would show them how to center it by using the option over here, which is you can go to Format, then you can go to Align and Indent, and then go to Center, and then it will center align. So basically, you can guide them step by step through different actions or different skills, using the video as a means of explaining. And for example, it says here, convert this line to boldface. Now I'm going to make it unbolded so that we can see that. So goodbye.

Audience: And you're still recording.

Nitya Ramanan: Yes, I'm still recording. So I'm going to say, convert this to bold. So I'm going to say, OK, I first have to select this to the settings, then I go to Format, and then I go to text, and then I go to bold, and then that's going to make it bold. So as I'm doing the action, I'm talking about it in the background. So that helps them to understand what's going on.

You can also use this to create solutions, like answer keys. You have a test, so you have an assignment, you have a quiz, and then you want to give them the answers. You just don't want to throw out an answer key, and tell them they got it wrong. But this is a good way of explaining why they got something wrong, or why the answer should be what it should be. So it's a little bit modest.

Audience: Nitiya, is it recording your face also?

Nitya Ramanan: Yes, it is. Whatever is in the frame, the red and white frame is all being recorded.

Audience: Oh OK.

Nitya Ramanan: Yes. So right now I'm still recording everything that I'm saying. So whatever you do on the screen, because whatever I'm speaking right now, of course, I have turned the volume of in this, so it's not recording my voice--

Audience: But that, even as I see it before.

Nitya Ramanan: Yes, it is. So if I say stop here now, and I say done, now it's going to say, do you want to just save it and upload it, because you have a perfect video, or do you want to edit it, because you want to add stuff to it? So then I'm going to say Edit Video, and it's going to bring up this video over here on my dashboard.

So now this is my dashboard where I have the video that I just took. So this is the video. Now, if you look at the bottom here, this is where you have the the play bar where you can scroll in the middle of the video. So now let me just move it forward a little bit just to show you how it's-

Audience: There's it playing.

Audience: [muffled voices]

Nitya Ramanan: It's not moving, it's not processing as fast, actually. Oh, there it is. But there is a delay between the Zoom and the actual-- So if you look here now, this is a video I've created. Did everybody gets a chance to create a video? Yes? Can't just log me out? Did you get a change to create video? So nobody created a video, is that it?

Audience: [overlapping voices]

Nitya Ramanan: So do you want to create a video of your own?

Audience: Yeah.

Nitya Ramanan: Because we have time, it's only 11:30. So if you create the video, and if you look at it, this is the video that's playing right now. Now I want to add more features to it.

So let's say I want to add a title page here instead of all of this. I just want to say welcome to formatting skills or whatever. So I'm just going to click at the point where I want to add that message, and I'm going to say in-- What am I in? In here, and set all the tools.

And I have a lot of options for tools over here. So I can add transitions between different screens, I can increase o reduce the speed of specific segments, I can add sound. I can replace a frame with a video, or I can freeze a frame. I can add overlays.

Overlays, something where you have something that starts on one portion of your video and continues on to the next. And it stops,m so you can set for how long you want it. Then you can have free hand again. You can add arrows and shapes and blur and images, you can add all of that.

If you record a video with no sound and you want to narrate, then you can choose a narrate option here. And then you can start at the beginning. And you can narrate as the video progresses, so that you can explain the way you want students to understand it, so that's an option. You can use, of course, also the insert. You can add another video file. If you have an existing video, you can either import it and put it in one spot and you can add it there.

Or you can hide your camera. So this is something I think is really cool, because let's say, I want to hide my camera at certain points, right. So in the beginning of my video, I don't want people to see my face until I actually start talking. So I'm going to use this hide camera option.

And you see the bar over here, the little drag bar. Now I drag it. And you see my the video moving. And I'm going to let it stop at the portion where I want the-- So now is where I want the face to start appearing. So I'm going to release it. And so I'm going to hit OK now. Now, if I go back, and play the video from start, you'll see that the talking head has disappeared at the top. So it's only visible after a certain point.

Audience: So you there?

Nitya Ramanan: So it will appear now, because that's what I set it, to appear. So let's say I want to edit that some more, so I'm going to say here, hide camera again, and then I'm going to start from here, going back all the way to the start. I don't want the face to appear. I'm going to say OK now. And now if I start playing the video, you don't see the talking head anymore until 11:00 seconds into the video, so it'll appear now in another few more seconds. There, you see it now?

Audience: [overlapping voices]

Nitya Ramanan: Hit on the--

[interposing voices]

Nitya Ramanan: It's a delay, OK.

Audience: Irving did it in terms [muffled voices].

Nitya Ramanan: It's not thinking of the--

Audience: There.

Nitya Ramanan: Now you see it at the top. So what this does is, it allows you to appear, and disappear, and reappear at different points when you want people to focus on things. If it's just like a message running on the screen, you don't want your face in the corner to distract people. So now that this is the beginning screen, I'm going to add some messages for students.

So I'm going to say, what is this about. So I'm going to say, tools, overlay, and I'm going to say text. And I'm going to add the text here. I do not want it to be a call out, so I'm going to change the style to-- Where does it say call out? It can say call out, but then you change it to no call out.

Audience: Call out?

Nitya Ramanan: Yeah, it's a call out.

[interposing voices]

Audience: --the little tab at the bottom?

Nitya Ramanan: That's a call out, you see that?

Audience: --like from a comic.

Nitya Ramanan: Yes. I never knew that. So I don't want that to be a call out, so I'm just going to say, Formatting Assignment. And I want students to just look at this first when they come in. And it's going to run from the beginning all the way up to four seconds.

So if you look here, it's four seconds long. You can also set the time here. And you can increase it to four, five, as long as you want it to appear, so that they know what it's about. And then I hit OK.

And now if I go back and play again, I hope it plays it without a delay. So I go back, and I me see here it starts with Formatting Assignment. The talking head is not there at this point. And now as the video is playing, you'll see that the talking head will appear shortly in about 11 seconds. Yes?

Audience: So for the video editor, does it have to be something that you recorded with the tool, or can you use video?

Nitya Ramanan: You can also import videos from outside as long as it's an mp4 format. It needs to be mp4.

Audience: Do you use a free version or the paid version?

Nitya Ramanan: This is free.

Audience: Do you use the free one, or do you have a paid one.

Nitya Ramanan: I have paid one as well. So I'm going to use that one to show you the quizzes, because the the quizzes needs the paid version. But this is the free one. This is really slow. Did your school get it, or you got it?

Nitya Ramanan: I got it for myself.

Audience: How much was it rough?

Nitya Ramanan: I can show it though.

Audience: Child Players cost $10 a month.

Nitya Ramanan: Sorry?

Audience: $10 a month.

Nitya Ramanan: It's very expensive, actually. If you buy the annual plan, it's not much. It's very inexpensive.

Audience: We need to write that off in the test.

Audience: That's right.

Nitya Ramanan: I never thought about that.

Audience: That's why I'm here.

[laughs]

Nitya Ramanan: Is this so? Did you guys get an idea of the tools that you can use? There's a ton of tools you can use. If you go to just tools, and you can introduce them anywhere. Let's say I want to transition from one screen to another IN a little fancier manner versus just it's scrolling out.

So suppose I wanted to go from here to the editing screen, with a little more of a twist, I'm going to bring my cursor to where I want the frame transition, and I'm going to click on Tools and go to Transition. And here it tells you the options for types of transition and how you want it to be. Let's say just swirl out, swirl in. So I'll use the type. That's how it will look.

So you can either use a Radial. There's a ton of options here that you can use to transition in and out of a frame. You can use a Kaleidoscope, whatever you like. But I usually like to use the Radial transition a lot, just because it's like a movie screen.

So if I put this in here, and I say, OK. Now when I go back, and I'm going to replay again, just let me get to that portion, you see the transition happening there, if that actually moves. It's not moving at all, that's terrible. So it's not doing the playing portion over there, it's just taking forever. Because it's already done over here.

Audience: Very slow.

Nitya Ramanan: That's very slow. I'm already done very fast to the end of the document on my screen, and it's still going along slowly.

Audience: That's because you see every single frame.

Nitya Ramanan: There's a very solid delay in this. So I'm sorry, but unfortunately, I'm not able to show you that exact portion, just because it's taking forever for it to play.

Audience: You pick up that one and walk around.

Nitya Ramanan: Yeah, I can do that.

Audience: No, I was teasing you.

Nitya Ramanan: I can actually.

[laughs]

Nitya Ramanan: Everybody's going to see multiple things now. Let me show you here. So if you actually see here, you should be able to see-- So you can see the transition happening, They just move in whichever way you choose it to move. And you can choose the duration of it as well, like in a couple of seconds how fast and how much you want it to cover. So that's another option for this, tool that you have here.

And then if you already notice the cursor, you see the cursor moving along the screen, the yellow cursor. Now, if you look at the options here, it says Cursor. If you uncheck that, it's not going to show you the highlighting cursor on the screen. But if you check it, then it's going to show your cursor moving.

So if you want to use your cursor to go on the screen and for people to see what you're pointing at, then you can leave the cursor options. So you see the yellow cursor here? So if you uncheck the Cursor option, it's going to not show that. And then you can hide your arrows and different things to point at different points of time. So are you familiar with all of these tools already. Do you use all of this stuff?

Audience: Some of them.

Nitya Ramanan: Some of them.

Audience: So you can edit that as you go along. So if you were showing something, and you didn't want the cursor to show up, or do you have to do that.

Nitya Ramanan: So no, you can choose. You can choose it. Like anything else, how you can choose when your talking head shows up and not how the cursor shows up. You can choose different points of time for everything. And you can also select, for example, if I say, tools again here, and I say Speed, you can choose which segments you want to speed up and you want to slow down.

So let's say there's some section of the video that's not really relevant, and you want to go four times, or whatever number of times faster. So you can select the start and the endpoint. And if you choose the speed up option, it's going to speed up just that section, and then go back to the normal speed after that, or before that. So you just choose sections to adjust the speed.

And then the one that really like the most, if you have just a video, you choose the music or the audio option. And it will give you all of these options for music. As a Babylon score, you can add it to the background, so it makes it nice for people to listen to, depending on the tone of the lesson or the video if you're not talking then.

Even if you are talking, you can have the audio at a very low volume in the background, so it gives it an ambient feeling. And it's nice to listen to the lecture as well as the music in the back while you're watching it. So you could incorporate all three of those things at the same time. So that's a very cool thing.