Creating and Using Film Clips--Erin Smith
October 20, 2006
People in attendance: Erin, Diane S., Karen, Heather, Shannon, Ethan, Diane K., Moe, Becky, Laurance
MEETING NOTES
Erin showed us several different ways to use film clips for teaching purposes, and the effects this can have on students' learning. We focused primarily on using networked Macintosh computers, but the things we learned can be extended to laptops (like the ones on the carts that teachers can check out through Kim Puuri.) Erin explained how much time in involved in creating film clips, and noted that we might want to choose clips we can use more than once. Using film clips also requires a fair bit of technical preparation on the teacher's end. I left this TWIT with a great appreciation for how dedicated Erin is to teaching.
Ways to Use Film Clips
1. Mac's built in DVD player allows you to capture clips from a film by pushing the "+" button while the film is playing. You then push the "set" button when you want the clip to end. The final step is to push "add" to add the clip to your library.
2. Mac's built in DVD player also allows you to use something called "Bookmarks." This function is located in one of the drop down menus at the top of the screen. It lets you "bookmark" a particular point in a film so that when you are teaching you can jump to that spot and the film will play from that spot forward. This saves you having to fastforward for five minutes while everybodys sits there waiting.
3. Do you want to capture still frames from a film? Mac's DVD player doesn't let you do that. But VLC, which is in the lab, does. You can play a film in VLC and take a screen capture by pushing the key combination Apple-Option-S while the film is playing. Your screen capture will show up on your desktop as a little snapshop.
4. An added bonus of VLC is that it has a horizontal time bar, so instead of fastforwarding we can just move the toggle along the time bar to get to different points in a film.
5. Erin also talked about Fair Use practices and how she handles making sure students get access to films so that they can turn in thorough, detailed assignments. It is my understanding that it is not enough to show a film once in class; students need to get their hands on the material in order to engage it repeatedly, closely and carefully. For Erin, this kind of a teaching situation most often happens in the CCLI setting, with careful preparation of materials.
If you are interested in any of the items listed above, please contact Karen, Jim, or Erin. Thanks.
People in attendance: Erin, Diane S., Karen, Heather, Shannon, Ethan, Diane K., Moe, Becky, Laurance
MEETING NOTES
Erin showed us several different ways to use film clips for teaching purposes, and the effects this can have on students' learning. We focused primarily on using networked Macintosh computers, but the things we learned can be extended to laptops (like the ones on the carts that teachers can check out through Kim Puuri.) Erin explained how much time in involved in creating film clips, and noted that we might want to choose clips we can use more than once. Using film clips also requires a fair bit of technical preparation on the teacher's end. I left this TWIT with a great appreciation for how dedicated Erin is to teaching.
Ways to Use Film Clips
1. Mac's built in DVD player allows you to capture clips from a film by pushing the "+" button while the film is playing. You then push the "set" button when you want the clip to end. The final step is to push "add" to add the clip to your library.
- The clips are stored in the preferences folder in your home directory. (home>library>preferences) As long as you are operating in the network, and your home directory has not been wiped out for some reason, the clips should show up. However, it's a good idea to back them up.
- You can name your clips and they are ordered alphabetically in a dialog box that appears as you play the film. You can show and hide the dialog box.
2. Mac's built in DVD player also allows you to use something called "Bookmarks." This function is located in one of the drop down menus at the top of the screen. It lets you "bookmark" a particular point in a film so that when you are teaching you can jump to that spot and the film will play from that spot forward. This saves you having to fastforward for five minutes while everybodys sits there waiting.
3. Do you want to capture still frames from a film? Mac's DVD player doesn't let you do that. But VLC, which is in the lab, does. You can play a film in VLC and take a screen capture by pushing the key combination Apple-Option-S while the film is playing. Your screen capture will show up on your desktop as a little snapshop.
4. An added bonus of VLC is that it has a horizontal time bar, so instead of fastforwarding we can just move the toggle along the time bar to get to different points in a film.
- In presentations students have sometimes noted the time when certain scenes start, and used to time bar to jump to that point. However, different computers register different times, so this practice does not always work out and is not recommended. Instead, have them capture clips, use bookmarks, or capture still frames.
- Erin shared a useful handout with us on VLC, which I hope to link here.
5. Erin also talked about Fair Use practices and how she handles making sure students get access to films so that they can turn in thorough, detailed assignments. It is my understanding that it is not enough to show a film once in class; students need to get their hands on the material in order to engage it repeatedly, closely and carefully. For Erin, this kind of a teaching situation most often happens in the CCLI setting, with careful preparation of materials.
If you are interested in any of the items listed above, please contact Karen, Jim, or Erin. Thanks.
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