On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 04:33:33PM -0600, Cameron Macdonell wrote: > Hi Titus, > > It took a quick peek at the videos. Two things: > > 1) It seems the camera is not really utilized, I believe it watches the > audience? Does it watch the speaker too? I think it is beneficial to > have a fly-on-the-wall view, but I wonder how it could be better > executed to capture discussion and/or the speaker.
We try to point it at the speaker...? Midway through the second morning of the SIO metagenomics workshop, we turn it to the whiteboard - don't know if it came through well :). We are still... evolving the workflow for using this stuff, but my sense is that the camera can be occasionally useful ;). More generally we face the problem that without a ~dedicated person managing all the recording, it will inevitably be very suboptimal. *shrug* Better than nothing, right? > 2) Less seriously, that is an impressive number of browser tabs in the > ReadTheDocs video. An empty browser is a sign of an empty mind! best, -titus > >>> "C. Titus Brown" <[email protected]> 10/19/16 2:47 PM >>> > Hi all, > > our overly technical lab has invested in hardware that actually seems to > work, and as a result we are now ~casually recording most things. I???m > happy to describe the hardware set up in detail, but the core consists > of a Chromebox, a portable monitor, a camera, and a tabletop > speaker/mic. We set up the Chromebox to host a YouTube Live event > (which is basically a Google Hangout) and then screenshare and record > sound from the presenter???s laptop to the hangout. The great thing is > that everything ends up on YouTube, AND you can include remote > participants as long as they can join a Hangout - no special > hardware/software required. > > Recently we???ve recorded a number of things, including: > > (1) several informal in-lab learning events, e.g. > * ReadTheDocs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-gw7e_f_Jw > * binder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uScICXDIJvU > > (2) a workshop on metagenomics at UCD: > > https://2016-metagenomics-sio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ > > (3) a talk by Daniel Standage on software development: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlMKKlydeVc > > (4) an intro UNIX shell workshop: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKotOYd3bBo and > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E1CWu55qCY > > Of course we have the usual technical challenges that come with trying > to teach and record at the same time, including bad sound etc. but we > are working on checklists to help us with that. > > Anyway, I thought I???d share! > > Two questions/thoughts/comments: > > * it might be neat to provide a way to link videos (mine or better > ones!) to the static lessons. Hardly a substitute to live teaching but > maybe a nice adjunct? > > * is there a place (e.g. channel?) to post these videos (and others!) > more generally? I???m happy to keep doing things myself but sharing > broadly is what we do so??? where should we put ???em? Should we just have a > youtube hashtag? etc. > > cheers, > ???titus > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss > -- C. Titus Brown, [email protected] _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss
