My ICCB 2015 talk is now online!
25 Aug 2015 { pedagogy e-learning conservation }‘Online learning: How can we best use it for conservation capacity-building?’
This is the title of the talk I gave at the 2015 ICCB-ECCB in Montpellier earlier this month. I’ve been wanting to create more multi-media resources for my online courses, so to become familiar with the process and software, I set myself the challenge of creating a recording of this talk and making it available to other people interested in using online learning to enhance skills for conservation.
The slideshow with voice-over is now available on YouTube, and you can download the transcript here.
I used the following workflow to create my YouTube video:
- Recorded the presentation as I gave it, using my mobile phone - terrible audio quality but created a record of what I said on the day,
- Created a transcript by re-speaking to Windows Sound Recorder,
- Read the transcript aloud and recorded in Audacity using a good quality shotgun microphone,
- Added labels in Audacity indicating when I changed slides,
- Exported the narration from Audacity to .mp3 format,
- Exported the slides from Powerpoint to .jpeg format,
- Created a narrated slideshow in Windows Live Movie Maker from the images and soundtrack, adjusting the duration of each slide to match the timing of slide transitions,
- Exported the slideshow from Movie Maker to .wmv format,
- Uploaded to my YouTube channel.
Do comment if you have any suggestions for stream-lining this workflow, or using open-source cross-platform alternatives to the Windows software.