{"id":224,"date":"2016-02-05T07:58:06","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T12:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lightboard\/?page_id=224"},"modified":"2016-02-22T12:00:19","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T17:00:19","slug":"best-practices-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lightboard\/best-practices-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Practices"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Planning<\/h3>\n<p>Lesson planning applies to video recording too!!!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Set a clear\u00a0objective (one topic) for the recording<\/li>\n<li>Be able to meet your objective with\u00a0one boards worth of content or develop a transition<\/li>\n<li>Consider pre-writing or drawing some content<\/li>\n<li>Any images or text you add should have black background<\/li>\n<li>Practice on equal sized white board<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What to Wear<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Don&#8217;t wear black &#8211; you will blend into the background!<\/li>\n<li>No logo&#8217;s &#8211; they will be inverted in the recording<\/li>\n<li>Dark blue works best<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Markers<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>When writing on the board, look at what you are writing.<\/li>\n<li>When talking about something on the board, point at it and look at it.<\/li>\n<li>When you aren&#8217;t writing or pointing, look at the camera.<\/li>\n<li>Leave yourself a window. \u00a0Or at least try not to draw horizontal lines through your eyes or mouth.<\/li>\n<li>When pointing, try to point from the side, not from the back, so your fingers stand out against the background<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t erase during the recording if you can avoid it at all.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>During the Recording<\/h3>\n<p>Here is an example of a Lightboard recording that also provides an introduction.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"668\" height=\"376\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0PNq0faZwOM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you are creating a series of videos for the same course you don&#8217;t need an intro for each one<\/li>\n<li>Make sure you look into the camera when you aren&#8217;t writing on the board<\/li>\n<li>When referring to something on the board point to it<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>PowerPoint<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Set-up for 16:9 ratio and black background BEFORE you create slides &#8211; PowerPoint doesn&#8217;t take changes to format well<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t use the usual bullet point talk &#8211; BORING!!!<\/li>\n<li>You can run a movie in PowerPoint and point to or talk about the video<\/li>\n<li>You can make secret dots in black on the glass and point to those during your PowerPoint<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Other Ideas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Add hand written text to a PowerPoint slide as you talk<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lightboard\/files\/2016\/02\/PP-and-writing.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-214\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-214\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lightboard\/files\/2016\/02\/PP-and-writing-300x183.png\" alt=\"PPT and writing\" width=\"348\" height=\"217\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Run Matlab and create a moving graph<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lightboard\/files\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-05-at-7.30.56-AM.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-213\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-213\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lightboard\/files\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-05-at-7.30.56-AM-300x172.png\" alt=\"matlab illustration\" width=\"348\" height=\"215\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Annotate real objects<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lightboard\/files\/2016\/02\/real-object.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-215\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-215\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lightboard\/files\/2016\/02\/real-object-300x166.png\" alt=\"Annotate real objects\" width=\"350\" height=\"215\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Run a video and discuss<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lightboard\/files\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-05-at-7.31.05-AM.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-216\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-216\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lightboard\/files\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-05-at-7.31.05-AM-300x171.png\" alt=\"video and writing\" width=\"349\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Present live code and discuss<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lightboard\/files\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-05-at-7.31.23-AM.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-217\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-217\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lightboard\/files\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-05-at-7.31.23-AM-300x165.png\" alt=\"live code and writing\" width=\"347\" height=\"214\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planning Lesson planning applies to video recording too!!! 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