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Young Black Bear Eating Dandelions
https://vimeo.com/221682170 // Vimeo CC0
Bear In A Forest
https://www.pexels.com/video/bear-in-a-forest-855113/
Downloaded from Pexels CC0


February 12, 2020

  1. Sign in and stow your phones out of sight! Get a Chromebook and log in using the directions below or on your own if you remember.

  2. Log in using these directions.

  3. Complete Animoto videos: Log into your account and create your video. Send the link to your finished/published video to

  4. Already done? Check out any of these tools WYAW:
    1. EdPuzzle https://edpuzzle.com
      1. Go to EdPuzzle and log in as a teacher using your gmail account. Choose as your school "Western Carolina University"
      2. Go to the "My Content" area from the menu to the left of the screen
      3. Click "Add content" and "Create a video". Previously, you will have found a YouTube video that relates to content you wish to teach.
      4. On the left menu, choose "YouTube" and in the search field, paste in the YouTube video you wish to use. Once you hit enter, you'll be taken to that video with some editing options.
      5. Explore: Crop Video, Voiceover, Audio Notes, and Quizzes. Save as you go and when done, click Finish.
      6. Choose "Later" when asked which class to assign it to.
      7. To test this, you can use the tab at the top for "Public Link"

    2. Try out one of these tools:
      1. Simple Line Animation https://toonator.com/ (requires email sign up to save animations)
      2. Zimmer Twins http://zimmertwinsatschool.com/movie/starters (using existing assets, create your own animated cartoon)

  5. VIDEO EDITING CONTINUES....... More Powerful than Animoto and what you'll use for your personal digital story

    WeVideo (http://www.wevideo.com/) This tool allows you to not only use drop and drag editing but some fun effects and transitions.

    First let's see a good example of personal digital story: https://vimeo.com/144672132 and https://vimeo.com/298544365

    Now, let's get started with learning to use this powerful tool.
  • If you wish to access a step-by-step written tutorial, go to:
    http://www.tlamproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/WeVideoGuide-CGLCK2015.pdf

  • You'll start with a "New Video Edit" and you'll see a timeline (this is the default view) MAKE SURE you are in Timeline mode and not storyboard mode

  • We'll need to upload some media to get started on learning the editing tool. Because you are logged into Chrome on your Chromebook, you can access your Google Drive and the folders that are shared with you as well as your own folders. NOTE: If you want to get media (images, video) from another google account, you'll have to log out and in again or copy files from one f

  • In WeVideo, look for the green cloud and browse to select to upload your media (video, images, music) into your video edit project - be patient this may take awhile. We will do this together. Depending on the file size it may take a minute to upload. Media is put in different tabs based on what kind of file it is - video, images, music.

  • Start to put your media along the timeline. You can edit to shorten from either end, position your playhead along the timeline and use the scissor tool to cut in two and then drag other images in between, if you wish

  • You can also edit video and music using a variety of options - click on the pencil icon to see what you can do

  • Browse along the top menu items to see what they can do: Transitions, Effects, Text, Themes, etc.

  • Click “Play” to preview at any time to see how your video is shaping up.

  • Lastly, you can also add narration to your timeline by adding a video track or using one that exists (maybe recorded in audacity or with an audio recorder)

  • Because it is "in the cloud", there is nothing to download and install, and it saves automatically

  • When you wish to save, after you've published your video you can download it to your computer as an .mp4 file

BEFORE YOUR LEAVE:

  • Sign out of your Chromebook.
  • When the sign-in screen appears, press and hold Ctrl + Alt + Shift + R.
  • Look for the yellow exclamation mark and follow the prompts to continue/complete the process

RESOURCES

ROYALTY FREE MEDIA

Music
http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/music.html

Speeches
https://archive.org/details/Greatest_Speeches_of_the_20th_Century

All Media, mostly Images
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Wikipedia:Public domain image resources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Public_domain_image_resources

Public Domain Image Websites
https://99designs.com/blog/resources/public-domain-image-resources/

Access some fabulous visual and audio media collections at the Library of Congress (some are in the Public Domain) https://www.loc.gov/library/libarch-digital.html

MO' MEDIA

  1. Images that are copyright free or have a CC license that allows for free use and modification
  2. Music you can use that is copyright free or has generous CC licences:
  3. Video in the public domain
  4. A site of sites: http://mediacommons.psu.edu/free-media-library/

  5. And, of course, good ole' Creative Commons: https://search.creativecommons.org/