8th Series

 Video E-Content

Video E content is a popular and powerful mechanism of any MOOC program under the title of Tutorials. It can be called recording, reproducing, or broadcasting of moving visual images. As an educational context, we may prepare small video lessons for our flipped classrooms in a very easy and convenient manner. There are some free tools from which we can create our own video lessons.

1. Screencast-O-Matic:  “It is a screencasting and video editing software tool that can be downloaded directly from a browser. The software has been widely used in the education sector to support video creation for flipped classrooms, bi-directional student assessments, lecture capture, and student video assignments”. (Wikipedia).

Let us learn how to develop video lessons from screencast-o-Matic.

1. Write Screencast-O-Matic on Google.

2.Click it and the page appears like this.

3. Click on Record Free

4. Click on Launch Free Recorder. It will download the WebLaunchRecorder.exe .like this.

5. After download, the page looks like this 

There are two options. We can share the screen as well as the web camera accordingly or simultaneously from this screencast-o-Matic.

This is an example of the video made by me.

 https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cYhejRBggo

(Prof. Vandana Punia, Dean Faculty of Education, Human Resource Development Centre. Guru Jambheshwar University Of S&T, Hisar. She is also the Course Coordinator of National Resource Center, Pedagogical Innovations and Research Methodology.  (MHRD, Govt. of India).

7th Series

  Audio Content

Any published or unpublished content that is in form of listening material is called Audio Content. This content can be utilized through electronic devices with the help of speakers. There are three types that are commonly used in e-learning as music, narration (voice-overs), and sound effects. Examples of Audio content are podcasts, Digital Radio, and Audio Books, etc.

a. The podcast as an Audio Content: A Podcast is a digital audio file in form of a series of narrations.  We may download it and listen easily. Examples of podcasts are Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, Spotify, Anchor, etc.

Beautiful Piece of an Audio Content made by Arup Shah  (Participant teacher FIP -2, HRDC, GJU Hisar.)

https://anchor.fm/aruptalks/episodes/FIP-PODCAST-encqp0

How can we design and develop our own Podcast?

 First Step:    Write on Google: Anchor

2. Second Step: After clicking on Anchor, the page appears like this;

3. Sign up

 

4. After signing up, the dashboard appears:

5. Create and save your episode.

                                                                                                       (Vandana Punia)