Evolving as a Digital Teacher: Tools of the trade (Part 8)

Hello!! It has been like ages since I last put up something to continue this series on "Evolving as a digital teacher: Tools of the trade". So much has happened in that time and space and I don't even know where to begin.

Well, let me try to pick up and start with Part 8 so here it goes. I have joined the Center for Learning & Teaching, Divine Word University as the Director and this will be my second year in this office. Last year was an exciting year and so is this year 2022 as we embark on new learning experiences and try to share as much as we can to build our community of practice at DWU.

One of the things we have embarked on this year as a Centre is to create short informational videos as part of our Academic Policy Awareness drive or campaign. I purchased personal individual licenses for two additional software I am adding to my arsenal; Wondershare Filmora and Doodly. 

I decided to try a number of the informational videos with Doodly and so far I think Doodly's worked well for me with the intention and the kind of message I envision to bring across to the audience with it.

Here's two videos I have done so far with Doodly, 

 

Let me share with you for the third video the process I follow to produce these kind of videos. If you had noted, the first two videos did not have any voice narration. The third video I decided to include voice over. Here is how I did the third video.

1. Started with a storyboard. Brainstorming ideas for each scene of the video and what kind of asset (image or object) to use.

 

2. Opened the policy document, read and wrote down a script to use for the intro and each scene.

3. Then I took to Doodly, created the scenes and added each asset, edited asset settings until I was satisfied.

4. Recorded the audio voice over on top of the scenes for the first time. Wasn't satisfied with the results and took to Audacity. 

5. Recorded voice over audio again taking into consideration timing for each scene. Imported the audio back into Doodly and after an hour of editing, I then exported the final project. 

Note: For audio recording, I used the Rode wireless Go II to record audio.

 

Here is the final project

We're looking at doing more videos with a combination of male and female voice overs. 

Comments are welcome.