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Whew! While I was able to create a video (on my android phone), load it to my laptop via Google Drive, and upload it into Adobe Spark (and later to YouTube) to create my welcome video, I did find this whole process very time consuming. Of course, I know I will get faster as time goes on. I think I will reserve intensive editing skills for videos that I can use in multiple classes at various school sites since I work at two campuses. I appreciate the detailed examples and guidance that was provided in the Canvas module and look forward to working on my liquid syllabus. Thanks team! I have been meaning to create a liquid syllabus for some time and these sessions gave me the nudge and guidance I needed.

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This is my video shot last fall. I also use it this (spring 2021) semester.

https://youtu.be/LN5yE3vXe9Q

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This video was made for my summer 2020 class. After this course I see options for a different, more inclusive approach. It's a 4 unit class and we had a 100% success rate last summer. (Yay!)

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Definitely my "first pancake" moment. I've done welcome videos a few times but am very new to Adobe Spark. I found that the tech made me more nervous, so I didn't say nearly as much as I would normally. Probably a good thing actually. Here it is! Oops! Just realized I didn't load into YouTube for captioning - yikes. I'll leave it here for now, but clearly need to do that before actually using it. 😊 NT

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Here is a video that I made just to acknowledge the chaos and distractions that students might have in their lives.  At the same time, I wanted to encourage them to use that adversity as content in the course assignments.  The thumbnail for the video is pretty funny.

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I had some fun figuring out Clips, which Fabiola taught us about. Thanks Fabiola--fun app! I have this video posted in an intro module, on the page with info about me, their instructor. It's a silly video, but was fun to make and I hope they enjoy the carefree aspect of it--my goal is to break the ice and show them a bit of my true colors, so hopefully they will feel comfortable with me off the bat and reach out if needed! I really focused on the "imperfect" tip from Michelle to achieve this...in the past I have spent WAYYY to long re-recording these types of intro videos trying to get it perfect. Thanks for the great workshops!

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I am still trying to figure a few things out,  like how to add a still image thumbnail at the beginning so I don't have a goofy looking image to start.

This workshop was inspirational! I am even more excited to teach than I was when I started last January. I am no longer intimidated by online teaching.

Thanks!!

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There are some things I'd like to change, but I'm leaving it as is for now. It was hard, but I didn't keep going back to use better sentences, change this or that. It was hard--there are some things I really want to change, but for now I'm going to sit in the uncomforable.

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Wendy Mazon, Music- Los Angeles Pierce College

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Wendy Mazon, Music- Los Angeles Pierce College

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I had a lot of fun creating this welcome video. I used Fabiola's suggestion of short videos and put them together with the iMovie app and captioned it in Yuja. I find creating short videos and then putting them together is so much less stressful! Over the summer I learned how to incorporate the split screen, picture-in-picture and cut away features, so I wanted to try to incorporate them here. Thank you so much for this challenge. I really enjoyed it!

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Tanessa Sanchez - North County San Diego

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Tanessa Sanchez - North County San Diego

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First time poster, long time listener. I figure it's better late than never. I've recorded ample videos for my courses, however, this is my first in Clips (thanks Fabiola for the tip). And thank you Michelle for pioneering the humanistic approach. I'm hoping to return the fun in education through approachable measures.

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I have my online communication theory students get to know each other at the start of the course. Instead of using a written forum, I changed it up and asked for short videos. Which I then realized I should do too. I felt so powerful being able to edit the captions myself - adding the proper punctuation to match my vocal qualities and pacing!

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This is not my first welcome video. I don't always get around to making a welcome video, but I've made one in the car on my commute home, one in the gym, and one in the forest in Argentina where I was watching capuchin monkeys. This IS the first time I've intentionally recorded a welcome video while looking so terrible. I wasn't nearly this sweaty and gross in the forest or the gym.

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Well, I challenged myself to be in front of the camera and to use the tool students have access to.

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I am using clips. Thanks for this fun tool. My only issue was my camera set-up , I would prefer better eye contact with the viewers. Most of the contributors here seem to look straight into the camera and i would like to work on that. Any tips would be appreciated.

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Welcome Video For Fall 2020
Thanks so much Fabi for encouraging and inspiring all of us to humanize our courses.
Please let me know if this got captioned as it was supposed to.

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Well, that was easy! (Josephine 'Dau' Mayo, College of the Desert)

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Well, that was easy! (Josephine 'Dau' Mayo, College of the Desert)

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I got all excited about the other ways of doing this and decided I would record from Photo Booth on my Mac. I didn't write a script for this because when I have done a welcoming video before, my eyes were absolutely never on the camera! Spontaneity is good, right? I captioned in my studio on YouTube, which I like a whole lot better than Screen-Cast-o-Matic! This was fun!

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First Ever Welcome Video, ohhh my! (Ashley Peters, Fullerton College)

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First Ever Welcome Video, ohhh my! (Ashley Peters, Fullerton College)

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I used Clips and learned too late that I needed to put my face a little bit higher in the frame next time (I am eating the captions in this one!). I sent this out to my students this afternoon and just noticed it's had 10 student views (& 2 thumbs up?!), so I think I'm on the right track?

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Who Am I, Why Am I Here (Teresa McAllister)

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Who Am I, Why Am I Here (Teresa McAllister)

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I have students participate in a discussion the first week of class that asks them to share a bit about themselves by answering the questions, Who am I, why am I here, what are some of my favorite things, and what is my happy place.  I answer these questions in my video. When I first created & uploaded my video, it was too soft. So I tried to fix it in Spark.

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Sorry it took me so long to get this uploaded, but I initially saved my video as private so I couldn't get this cite to accept it.
I used Zoom. I have better luck bouncing back and forth from shared screen to full screen with Zoom than Screencastomatic.

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It's difficult to see myself, even though this isn't the first video I made.
I used Educator Flipgrid (free). It does the captions for you. You just have to go back and edit. Then I uploaded it to my YouTube channel and viola.

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I thought I wouldn't have enough to say for 3 minutes. 6 minutes and 35 seconds later....

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Thanks for this challenge.

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Perfect in its imperfection... (Gerry Clark)

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Perfect in its imperfection... (Gerry Clark)

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I have never been perfect in the classroom, so why should I be perfect on video? I teach computer applications and programming. It's much more important for students to learn how to recover when something goes wrong, since it almost always does with technology.

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I am proud of this.

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I used Clips. I learned it isn't great at displaying text and, like my video, it is quite imperfect. 

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I used Clips. I learned it isn't great at displaying text and, like my video, it is quite imperfect. 

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This is my imperfect video exploring iclips

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I wanted to try something new and do my video outdoors. This video is for my ESL students. I love this app Clips, so glad you showed me how to do it. It was pretty easy. I was so excited to complete this task but then realized my eye makeup smeared...it's not a black eye :). Oh well!

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So I loved the process, even though it took me longer than I thought because I was so critical of all my wrinkles LOL! I can see how the more you do it, the less the wrinkles matter ... and the more relaxed you become.

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Welcome Video for ESL Beginning Conversation Class

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Hello everyone! This is a welcome video that I plan to send to my ESL students a week before our class begins. Thanks to all!

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Bonjour tout le monde!
Hello everybody!

This morning, I went to Coronado Beach for a walk and with my phone I recorded a short video, I sent it to my gmail and then I downloaded it to my computer and I opened YouTube and download it there. That's it:-). This summer, I taught and recorded myself via Zoom. In total I made 42 videos. Wow! I can not believe! But I still have a bit of stress when I record myself. This experience was had by my students and other students will have it in my full online class in the fall. It is good that we teachers record ourselves to feel what the students have to do throughout the semester.
Bonne journée!

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Yikes this is so challenging!. I realized i was talking as if I would see my students in a real class. Wishful thinking. A new one is up with mistakes. The CC takes me so long. All done:)

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Intro to Online CLS / Fall 2020 - Doonan

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Short imperfect on-the-go video with a twist.

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I did video recording with my cell phone (not an iPhone) and added some animation for fun.

Heinrich Volschenk

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I tried a PowToon.. as a teaser... not perfect...will follow up with a Liquid Syllabus welcome video of myself.

Jacques Viljoen, South Africa.

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I wanted to try Adobe Spark now that I have a pro account with Adobe Cloud. I had used Spark several years ago and really liked how easy it is to use.

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My welcome video is below. I am grateful for this challenge and learned significantly. I will go back to this canvas module again. I found the clips app to be easy to use, as well as, the tutorial. It just took awhile to share to my email and eventually to upload on Youtube.

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I found iOS clips very easy to use - after a little trial and error. I am used to working with professional cinema tools but the Live title tool made this worth it. Last thing I had to do was use Handbrake to reduce the file size so I can post directly to Padlet without a link.

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Hi,

I really wanted to do a video with Clips or Adobe Spark, but I was not having any luck getting anywhere.  Very frustrating.  So, I went to my webcam and shot a quick video there.  Not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but I suppose that wasn't the point.

Thank you,
Cherise

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This is a video for my goggle website so not for a particular class. I teach nutrition and wellness focused courses so I wanted to reflect the wellness lifestyle I model for my students, this is the reason for the "location shoot".  We talked about being vulnerable... I am not from CA.  So my imperfection is at the start of my clip you can detect a slight accent. I cannot replicate it. It will just pop out! And I have to record again.  Can you guess the accent?

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I have a welcome video that is about 4 minutes long. But I had never used "clips" before so I decided to give it a go. I was playing with different angles and distances, just to see what would happen. I also decided to used filters and Animoji, not because I'm shy, I'm a theatre person after all, but because I wanted to experiment and see how the video would look. I like it. Do you think this look is professional enough? I ask because this matter always worries me.

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This was my first time uploading to youtube. Thank you for giving us courage to attempt these new technologies.

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Welcome to Responses to Poverty, Social Science 120

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Before this week, I had never heard of Adobe Spark, so I was really intrigued to try it out. Here is my first attempt. There are definitely some things I would change/adjust (like using widescreen instead of square for sizing) before posting in my class, but its a start!

I have a feeling I will be using this tool a lot coming this fall. I'm excited to keep playing around and adding more videos/content in the future.

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Here's my intro video. Thanks Michelle and Fabi, for showing us how to do this!

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After today's workshop, I made this to send to my students this week.

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I love Adobe Spark! I just made this welcome video for my Parent Ed. class!

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I think I did this video for DEFT (at SWC: DE training for staff). I know, it's short, but I just wanted to say I like this approach very much!

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I used FlipGrid. Wanted to add some quick color and content related to myself. Downloaded it and then uploaded to youtube. Definitely imperfect! Thanks for the great presentation

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This is my introduction video. I used AdobeSpark. It is a mentor video as well because my students will also make their own videos so we can all get to know a little more about each other and build community online.

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This is my home page / welcome page for my course. I recorded by video IN CANVAS on my computer using "Studio" and then I continue to edit the auto-captions in studio.
I also included a bitmoji and a pdf that I created in PowerPoint as a visual welcome.

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Welcome to Bus 250 - Start Here : Fa20 ONLIN BUS-0250 88298

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This is my welcome video. I used Adobe Spark. I used images from Adobe Spark and video footage from my phone.

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Here is my welcome video. I made it with Adobe Spark on my laptop. The video clip of me at the beginning was recorded with my smartphone. To get the video onto my MacBook Pro laptop, I used Airdrop (a share option built into Apple devices).