Hi All,


A month or two ago, we had a discussion about making videos. I think 
Keith started the thread. He wanted to know how to do it as a blind 
person, and I was very interested too because I suspect I'll need to 
make instructional videos for my teaching job.


Recently I had a conversation with a friend who's been teaching online 
classes for a couple of years now. I asked her what her videos were like 
(e.g., closeups of her face). She said that her early videos were of her 
sitting in front of a video camera speaking, but as she started looking 
around to see what other people were doing, she noticed that most people 
showed screenshots with their voices as background, so now she uses the 
screenshot approach. For example, she might put together a powerPoint 
presentation and show a still of a slide while she lectures on it, or 
she might show a still of a sample paragraph with her changes or 
corrections as she talks about why she's doing what she's doing.


I did ask about what she does specifically to make it happen, but that 
led to one of those conversations about clicking the orange circle and 
dragging to the box at the bottom, so the step-by-step stuff is for us 
to figure out. The one thing that was clear is that she records and 
edits the audio track in Audacity or something similar, then does all 
her clicking and dragging to link the recording to her slides, 
screenshots, etc.


I'm sharing this information because it makes the idea of producing 
videos much less daunting to people who can't see.


Ciao


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