Topics Discussed

• What have we learned about creating video to instruct our teachers?
• What have we learned about creating video to instruct our students?
• New Teacher Orientation
• What advice do we have for “newbies?”
  • Camera angle at or a bit above eye level
  • iPhone back camera is higher quality
  • Interesting background helpful
  • Light on your face
  • Stay closer to your audio source.
  • Be sure to look at your camera lens and not at yourself. Put an interesting picture/photo above your camera to focus on to look up at the camera.
  • Amazing New Drawing Tool: 
    • Wacom Tablet for writing/annotations onto screen
  • Making Great Looking Backgrounds

• Have an idea of the look you want
  • Google Slides, other slides apps to add shapes, colors
  • Unsplash.com; Pixabay.com - images, videos that are copyright friendly to make backgrounds
  • The Noun Project - Starburst and Swirl icons to create alternate looks
  • Zoom - 16:9 dimension
  • Look in specs for platform you are using to determine background size

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• TeacherCast Podcast (http://www.teachercast.net/tcp)
• Educational Podcasting Today (http://www.educationalpodcasting.today)
• The TechEducator Podcast (http://www.techeducatorpodcast.com)
• Ask The Tech Coach (http://www.AskTheTechCoach.com)

Need a Presenter?

• Jeff Bradbury (@TeacherCast) is available as a Keynote Speaker, Presenter, or to Broadcast your conference LIVE!
• Matt Friedman (@mfriedmanPGH) is available as a Keynote Speaker or Presenter