Canvas Brown Bag: Integrating Audio and Video

Scott Anderson Author

05/23/2017 Added

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Scott Anderson, Hixon-Lied Professor of Music, will talks about the integration of audio and video in the online environment.

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[00:00:02.366]So we're talking about digital tools,
[00:00:04.583]to use in,
[00:00:07.312]in the production of the media
[00:00:09.506]that I want for the course.
[00:00:12.290]There are equivalents that you can find for PC.
[00:00:17.990]I use Final Cut, Final Cut is high end.
[00:00:22.650]It's what they use for green screen things, you know,
[00:00:28.788]if you look at Star Wars one, two and three,
[00:00:31.762]those things are done, not largely,
[00:00:35.359]but in some way, shape or form in Final Cut.
[00:00:38.659]All right, so it's that level of
[00:00:42.232]video editing, it's, if you know what you're doing,
[00:00:46.101]in that program, you can do remarkable things.
[00:00:48.759]I'm not at that level yet, working on it.
[00:00:52.206]When I need down and dirty, I just need a video clip
[00:00:56.060]quickly, it's not a lot of fade in, fade out,
[00:01:00.890]it's not, I just need that clip, sometimes I'll use iMovie.
[00:01:04.512]It's a little quicker, the learning curve
[00:01:06.846]is not nearly as steep as Final Cut.
[00:01:10.573]So those are my two video editing tools.
[00:01:13.800]And again, there are plenty of equivalents
[00:01:18.316]on the PC side of things.
[00:01:20.046]iTunes works beautifully with Apple Keynote.
[00:01:24.781]I believe it also, and I've done a little bit
[00:01:27.152]with Powerpoint, but I believe
[00:01:29.276]it will interact with Powerpoint, as well.
[00:01:31.077]Not nearly as well as it does with Apple's keynote,
[00:01:35.746]but it still will work with that.
[00:01:38.625]Logic is where I do my music editing, and again,
[00:01:42.890]it's Apple only, but it really helps if I only want
[00:01:47.708]a small clip, and I want to make it sound good.
[00:01:51.272]You can go into any clip and say,
[00:01:53.153]start it here, end it here,
[00:01:54.997]but what you're going to get is
[00:01:56.038]a square start, and a square end.
[00:01:59.370]Which is fine if you're producing a ringtone,
[00:02:02.052]but if it's something that's, you know,
[00:02:03.863]I'll show you some of the presentations that I use.
[00:02:06.046]If you're using it, you know, for a classroom presentation,
[00:02:10.423]you want to have a fade in fade out on the thing.
[00:02:13.416]So Logic allows me to do that.
[00:02:16.936]Not, I can't do it with iTunes.
[00:02:18.944]And then Audacity is
[00:02:22.845]a tool that I use if I want to bring something in,
[00:02:26.537]say a live performance that I've recorded,
[00:02:29.591]someone else has recorded, that's in any media format.
[00:02:33.956]And it can come, it can be a Windows file,
[00:02:36.255]a WAV file, whatever, but I can import that into Audacity,
[00:02:40.330]which is free, by the way, it's cross platform.
[00:02:43.637]And you can go in and do, again, very fast editing.
[00:02:47.549]And for me, I use Audacity, and then,
[00:02:52.520]export it out to iTunes to finish the job.
[00:02:56.027]But I put in the fades, and things like that, in Audacity,
[00:02:59.347]then I put it back into iTunes, and change the file format.
[00:03:03.245]So, those are the programs that I use.
[00:03:08.091]Now when I started doing this online,
[00:03:11.481]there was a great deal of hit and miss. (chuckles)
[00:03:15.718]And one of the things that I learned the hard way,
[00:03:19.178]because I did it at least 10 lectures before I,
[00:03:23.080]I really figured this out, I got on a roll,
[00:03:25.947]and just did 10 lectures, in my office.
[00:03:29.407]Well, my office is right next to
[00:03:31.601]the trumpet professor's office.
[00:03:33.703]And it, I don't know why it didn't occur to me,
[00:03:36.594]but it should have.
[00:03:39.113]Everything that was happening over there
[00:03:40.768]was bleeding through into my microphone.
[00:03:44.094]And so, they're getting my lecture, and my presentation,
[00:03:48.262]while they're hearing trumpet etudes
[00:03:50.153]from the office next door, it's not ideal.
[00:03:52.803]And so all 10 of those lectures, gone,
[00:03:56.122]and I have to do them again.
[00:03:59.521]I'll ask you, have you guys ever had to take,
[00:04:03.143]and I'll say this, I've had to do it three times,
[00:04:05.651]take a STOP course through the DMV?
[00:04:08.338]Yeah, all right, so when you take,
[00:04:10.160]oh cool, I'm not the only one, I got to tell my wife this.
[00:04:12.668]Yeah, all right, all right.
[00:04:15.142]So when you take that STOP course, if you take it online,
[00:04:18.741]you know, you can go virtually slide by slide.
[00:04:23.640]Have you done the online one?
[00:04:25.161]Oh, the online one is fabulous, so,
[00:04:27.680]I actually had Brian Wilson look at this,
[00:04:31.059]the DMV site, and he said "Oh yeah, we can do that."
[00:04:34.321]Because your other option is, all right.
[00:04:38.385]My Dylan lecture is over an hour,
[00:04:41.854]and I have to pretty much get a front to back lecture.
[00:04:47.660]And when I listen back to it, if I make a mistake,
[00:04:50.690]or if I get ums, or,
[00:04:52.733]I don't like any of that sort of thing.
[00:04:55.136]I have to go back and do it again,
[00:04:57.086]work off of, I don't work off scripts,
[00:04:59.339]but I have to work off of bullet point,
[00:05:02.587]things to keep me on task.
[00:05:05.164]Well, when I saw this DMV thing, I went to Brian,
[00:05:07.811]and I said, "Could I do my class this way?"
[00:05:10.109]He said, "Oh yeah, we could set it up that way.
[00:05:12.025]And so the next iteration that I'm going to do this summer
[00:05:14.832]is going to be set up so I don't have
[00:05:17.294]to do a straight through performance.
[00:05:18.861]And that's really what the lecture has turned into,
[00:05:21.136]if you have to go front to back, it's a performance.
[00:05:25.339]And if it's an hour long lecture,
[00:05:27.754]and it's something that you're going to save
[00:05:30.970]and present to the students semester and semester out,
[00:05:34.105]you want it to be something that doesn't annoy them,
[00:05:37.739]and certainly not something that annoys you,
[00:05:39.840]because you have to go and listen to your own voice.
[00:05:42.743]I don't know if you're ever spent a whole summer
[00:05:44.426]listening to your own voice, it's excruciating.
[00:05:47.967]So you want to, you want it to be
[00:05:50.127]as close to correct as you can make it.
[00:05:53.006]So what I discovered was, I needed to find
[00:05:56.779]a sound-proof environment to do this.
[00:06:00.796]Because all of the production in the world on this
[00:06:04.069]audio and video does me no good if I,
[00:06:06.672]if they can hear outside noises.
[00:06:08.663]Whether it be my trumpet colleague next door,
[00:06:11.531]or a firetruck, or my kids, whatever.
[00:06:15.409]I couldn't have any of those things.
[00:06:17.673]And I'm lucky because I'm a trombonist,
[00:06:21.295]and you'll rarely hear those two things coupled.
[00:06:23.792]But I am a trombonist, and so my instrument
[00:06:26.183]is loud enough that my wife and I invested
[00:06:29.794]in a sound-proof practice room for our basement.
[00:06:33.521]Saved a whole bunch of things, my marriage,
[00:06:36.710]my neighbors storming the house, my kids,
[00:06:40.168]you know, all, it saved a whole bunch of things.
[00:06:43.049]So I've got the sound-proof room in the basement,
[00:06:45.755]and I go down there, and that's where I do my recording.
[00:06:50.271]I have a mic set up, it's just, it's perfect.
[00:06:54.858](too far off mic)
[00:06:58.239]There's one in the library.
[00:06:59.502]Yeah, there's a sound-proof room there,
[00:07:00.955](too far off mic)
[00:07:04.384](students talk off mic)
[00:07:08.598]And my booth at home is only four by eight.
[00:07:11.396]And you know, if you just get in there, sit down,
[00:07:13.915]put the laptop in front of you, I would,
[00:07:15.959]you can do it through the built-in mic.
[00:07:17.979]I would recommend getting a cheap USB mic
[00:07:20.382]that you can clip on here, you'll get
[00:07:22.089]a little better sound quality.
[00:07:23.970]You know, as long as it's,
[00:07:26.210]because it's not affecting the quality of the music
[00:07:28.231]the students hear in the presentation, it's only your voice.
[00:07:32.549]So as long as it's podcast quality
[00:07:35.266]with your voice, you're fine.
[00:07:37.518]Now, go ahead.
[00:07:39.214](too far off mic)
[00:07:58.520]The resources I'm using are
[00:08:02.363]personnel within the Hixson-Lied College.
[00:08:05.238]Michael Reinmiller, in particular.
[00:08:07.876]He was the first one who said, you know,
[00:08:09.349]I told him what I was doing and he said to me, "Oh, geez."
[00:08:13.447]He mentioned the DMV, I said, "Yeah,
[00:08:14.922]"I'm pretty well versed in that."
[00:08:17.929]And he said, "Well, we can do that."
[00:08:19.972]and so he's going to, he's going to coach me through that.
[00:08:24.686]But that is going to require me to hone my chops
[00:08:28.470]a little bit more in Final Cut,
[00:08:30.978]because we're going to do some of it
[00:08:32.453]in the Final Cut program.
[00:08:35.496](student speaks off mic)
[00:08:43.553]Actually, my college makes it available
[00:08:45.819]as for faculty, you know, we have a site license for it.
[00:08:49.024]So it's just a download.
[00:08:51.171]You're right, it's incredibly pricey.
[00:08:53.296]I think it's around 700? 750.
[00:08:55.547]Yeah.
[00:08:56.380](too far off mic)
[00:09:17.062]And that's the other thing, you know.
[00:09:18.142]If you have graduate students who are at all versed in this,
[00:09:23.587]and often times you'll get them, you know,
[00:09:25.769]you could advertise over at the journalism college.
[00:09:30.495]You might find students there who know how to use Final Cut,
[00:09:34.303]or, in film and new media, you'll find students there,
[00:09:39.632]graduate students who can help you with this.
[00:09:41.719]But in our college, I'm lucky we have Michael.
[00:09:45.831]But also, distance ed has been terrific
[00:09:50.011]in helping me with this.
[00:09:53.018]In fact, there's no way I could have done this initially
[00:09:55.722]without the help of distance education.
[00:09:58.242]They were the ones who initially helped me
[00:10:00.934]with doing this course on line on Blackboard,
[00:10:05.241]and then translating all of that to Canvas,
[00:10:09.783]where it just, it's a night and day change, it's remarkable.
[00:10:14.891]So what I do is get into the sound-proof booth.
[00:10:18.574]The other thing that you have to be sure of is that
[00:10:21.869]you are using headphones when you do these lectures.
[00:10:26.838]Because, again, the sound bleed.
[00:10:29.389]Say I'm recording in my sound-proof room,
[00:10:32.921]and all is well and good, this sound that comes
[00:10:35.406]out of the speaker, or my speaker in my room downstairs
[00:10:39.307]will bleed back into the mic,
[00:10:40.990]and what students will hear then is an echo.
[00:10:46.075]And it's a little disconcerting,
[00:10:48.595]and especially if it goes on for an hour. (laughs)
[00:10:51.497]So you need to wear headphones.
[00:10:53.599]You'll hear everything, but it won't go
[00:10:55.002]back into your microphone, the only thing
[00:10:56.652]that's going to go into your mic is your voice.
[00:11:00.484]So just trial and error things.
[00:11:03.630]For a bit there, I couldn't figure out
[00:11:05.151]why I was getting that echo, but then,
[00:11:08.494]I thought it through and, oh yeah.
[00:11:11.188]I've got two sound sources going into the mic.
[00:11:13.858]So the headphones solved that immediately.
[00:11:16.482]But the, I, I can't emphasize enough
[00:11:18.584]how important it is to get somewhere that's sound isolated,
[00:11:22.949]and how difficult it is to find those places.
[00:11:27.210]We had, we used to have one room in the School of Music,
[00:11:30.670]in the Music Library, that was sound-proof room, it's gone.
[00:11:34.675]And those rooms are pretty pricey.
[00:11:36.800]My personal sound-proof practice room was about eight grand,
[00:11:42.407]and that was about 15 years ago.
[00:11:44.694]Now they're anywhere from 12 to $15,000
[00:11:48.967]to set up a room of your own.
[00:11:51.428]For me it made sense, it was a great tax write-off,
[00:11:53.564]and I really needed it.
[00:11:55.550]But for most people, it doesn't make sense,
[00:11:58.684]and if there's a place on campus you can do it, you should.
[00:12:01.912]And you'll also probably have access
[00:12:04.942]to the programs that you need.
[00:12:07.369]So these are the tools to get me where I want to go.
[00:12:13.429]And,
[00:12:15.240]the other issue that I have with Blackboard was
[00:12:20.929]I could set everything up on Blackboard,
[00:12:24.876]but because Blackboard didn't have any way
[00:12:29.079]to prevent the file from being downloaded,
[00:12:32.957]everything had to be set up using TechSmith Relay.
[00:12:35.743]And TechSmith Relay is wonderful
[00:12:37.508]for what it does, it's screen capture.
[00:12:39.935]But in the presentations that I was putting together,
[00:12:43.638]there was degradation of the video and the audio
[00:12:48.213]because of TechSmith Relay.
[00:12:50.719]Now I don't need to use it, in fact,
[00:12:52.380]I had to download it here just a moment ago,
[00:12:54.621]and we're recording right now using it,
[00:12:57.059]but I don't even have it on my computer, generally.
[00:12:59.486]Because I can upload directly to Box, and I'll show you.
[00:13:03.828]Box works seamlessly with Canvas.
[00:13:10.094]And so here's my Box account.
[00:13:19.080]All right so, the rock history course is here.
[00:13:23.515]And you see the size of files we have.
[00:13:28.357]Some of them are actually quite large, my Dylan lecture,
[00:13:32.412]every year in my evals I, the students,
[00:13:36.413]observe that I like Dylan,
[00:13:39.153]and you can see that from the file size.
[00:13:41.403]But these, you know, Box gives you unlimited storage,
[00:13:46.096]and once it's there, if I want to use it again,
[00:13:49.335]it's not a matter of moving files.
[00:13:51.250]It's a matter of moving links.
[00:13:53.584]And it's, I'll show you how that works.
[00:13:55.359]It's really just beautiful with Canvas, the way this works.
[00:14:00.643]So you can see, I've loaded all these files.
[00:14:02.895]Now I mentioned that in Blackboard, I had to use Techsmith.
[00:14:07.551]The reason for that, if I just put a Quicktime file up,
[00:14:10.593]which these all are, they're MP4 or M4Vs,
[00:14:14.134]if I just put that up on Blackboard,
[00:14:16.223]the students can just, you know, depending on
[00:14:20.031]what machine you're using, either option-click
[00:14:22.818]or whatever, and it'll download for them.
[00:14:26.590]And I'm working in an environment
[00:14:28.309]where everything that I'm using,
[00:14:31.140]I have to be so careful about understanding fair use,
[00:14:36.549]because I don't want to get sued by Paul McCartney.
[00:14:39.591]He's going to win, (laughs) every time.
[00:14:42.818]He has a lot more lawyers than even the University has.
[00:14:45.559]So I don't want that material to get out,
[00:14:49.517]and I have it all behind this firewall.
[00:14:51.271]Everything, I've checked it out,
[00:14:52.919]I'm working within the guidelines of fair use.
[00:14:57.528]So what I can do with this is set it up,
[00:15:01.940]and if you go here,
[00:15:05.203]these are the links that transfer across.
[00:15:08.953]But if you go into this particular setting,
[00:15:11.002]into the advanced settings,
[00:15:14.891]the default has this box clicked.
[00:15:19.267]All I have to do is unclick that,
[00:15:22.460]and now users don't have, the students don't have
[00:15:26.269]the option of downloading these things.
[00:15:30.296]That was not an option on Blackboard.
[00:15:32.898]I mean, if that was the only upgrade,
[00:15:34.640]I still would have made the move to Canvas.
[00:15:36.997]But it wasn't, there were so many other things.
[00:15:40.306]But this is a big one for me, I am not interested
[00:15:44.044]in having litigation brought against me.
[00:15:47.074]That takes care of all the problems
[00:15:47.907]of people getting (unclear) downloads, and,
[00:15:50.973]Yes, yes, it,
[00:15:53.436]the fact that it's behind a firewall,
[00:15:55.642]and there's, it's view only, no sweat.
[00:15:59.983]And I'm in good shape.
[00:16:01.796]And even to the point, with some of these,
[00:16:04.930]where I'm showing documentaries, all right, and,
[00:16:10.410]I'll show you what students see.
[00:16:13.324]Actually, I'll show them to you in Canvas.
[00:16:15.737]These are all stored, now, in Box, all right.
[00:16:18.398]So I've got my entire course loaded here,
[00:16:21.962]two pages worth of files, it's all ready to go.
[00:16:27.303]And if I want to update something, the course intro,
[00:16:30.577]I always, I update it every semester, fine.
[00:16:33.433]I delete it from here, and upload the new one when I finish.
[00:16:38.739]And Box is, again, it's integral to what I do.
[00:16:43.603]And it's not just for the rock class, by the way.
[00:16:45.619]It's really quite a remarkable thing.
[00:16:49.820]I also teach trombone, and so I have
[00:16:51.654]all kinds of trombone related things on here that I store.
[00:16:58.144]It gets them off of my computer,
[00:16:59.944]I don't have to worry about it.
[00:17:01.651]I've got a slide that I'm going to show you
[00:17:02.985]some of the advantages of using Box.
[00:17:07.316]Because again, most computers you buy now
[00:17:10.811]that are flash memory, or that are,
[00:17:15.685]help me out, the hard drives are no longer ATA.
[00:17:19.747]Yeah, solid state hard drives, no longer ATA hard drives.
[00:17:23.776]You know, I, my iTunes alone is two terabytes.
[00:17:29.140]And there's no way that's going to fit on my computer.
[00:17:32.820]I have external drives, and that's fine.
[00:17:35.221]I don't always want to carry them around.
[00:17:37.220]With Box, I don't have to, I can put anything that I want.
[00:17:42.329]I have an, I'm not interested in uploading
[00:17:44.372]my entire iTunes library onto Box,
[00:17:46.717]but the stuff that I use for instructional purposes
[00:17:49.481]on a consistent basis, I put it here.
[00:17:52.708]And you know, I put it into my rock and roll file.
[00:17:57.166]So that works well, and by the way,
[00:18:01.276]these things that you see, these are my,
[00:18:04.910]the ones with numbers in front of them
[00:18:06.151]are actually my course lectures.
[00:18:09.366]And it's what is linked over into Canvas.
[00:18:14.756](too far off mic)
[00:18:21.466]Have you noticed any degradation
[00:18:22.919]in the file quality (too far off mic)
[00:18:26.077]No, and I'll show you in Canvas, it's,
[00:18:28.512]you'll see it right away, it's remarkable.
[00:18:32.345]Because I can show you, in iTunes,
[00:18:36.965]what it looks like, and then I can show you in Canvas.
[00:18:39.473]And it's very close, and by the way,
[00:18:42.492]I have students, believe it or not,
[00:18:45.058]who will take the entire course on this.
[00:18:49.154]The Canvas app works on this.
[00:18:51.408]I have students who take the entire course
[00:18:53.811]on the phone, and they can do that.
[00:18:56.981]I don't recommend it, but they can do it.
[00:19:00.371]The Canvas app is terrific for the students.
[00:19:04.667]I think it still has a ways to go for faculty.
[00:19:08.577]There are some administrative things I'd like
[00:19:10.762]to be able to do, especially on the iPad,
[00:19:12.945]that I can't do yet, but we'll get there.
[00:19:17.287]I do most of the administrative things just on the computer.
[00:19:21.513]So Box really keeps me behind that firewall.
[00:19:26.888]It makes it easier to transfer courses
[00:19:29.617]from semester to semester, if I want
[00:19:31.637]to reuse elements of the course, just makes life simpler.
[00:19:38.289]So, the benefits of this, you have access anywhere.
[00:19:44.046]And if I go downstairs into the School of Music,
[00:19:47.516]if I don't feel like bringing the hard drive
[00:19:49.549]with everything on it, I can just access my Box account,
[00:19:52.882]as you saw me do, right from whatever computer I'm using.
[00:19:58.816]Or, I can access it from this computer,
[00:20:00.859]not using my own hard drive.
[00:20:05.676]I can use it on multiple devices, you know,
[00:20:08.673]I can put files on this computer if I wish to,
[00:20:13.444]I can put them on a PC if I wish to.
[00:20:17.438]Often times if I'm teaching over in Neihardt,
[00:20:20.840]for an honors course, they have a PC set up over there.
[00:20:23.754]If I decide I want to use their computer,
[00:20:25.948]I can just access my Box account, and it works just fine.
[00:20:31.797]You can use the app, and it works well.
[00:20:36.232]And if you don't have the app installed, you just log in.
[00:20:40.492]So that's not always the case.
[00:20:42.896]And I experimented with using Dropbox,
[00:20:44.835]I experimented with all kinds of different storage,
[00:20:47.748]even Apple's iCloud storage, but it just got
[00:20:51.796]terribly expensive from my end, and it was still not enough.
[00:20:58.357]The baseline, the free Apple storage,
[00:21:00.517]the iCloud storage, was what, five gigabyte?
[00:21:03.802]Yeah, it's pretty small.
[00:21:06.031]So you really can't use the (drowned out by cough).
[00:21:08.528]It's easy to share this, you just send links.
[00:21:13.171]I don't know if you've ever tried to email,
[00:21:15.669]or even Dropbox a four gigabyte file.
[00:21:21.637]It's not much fun, it doesn't work very well.
[00:21:25.178]And so this way, it's just a matter,
[00:21:26.813]again, of sending a link,
[00:21:29.938]if I really want someone to be able to see.
[00:21:33.280]And I, frankly, I very rarely use that function,
[00:21:35.847]but it's more convenient to do the thing any other way.
[00:21:40.489]And you can create a public folder,
[00:21:43.878]and that's something I'm working on this summer,
[00:21:45.958]with the rock and roll class,
[00:21:48.396]is to have some things where students can upload
[00:21:52.437]into my, into the public folder,
[00:21:55.443]I can upload things, as well.
[00:21:57.264]You can make things more interactive that way, so.
[00:22:01.772]All of this is helpful, but none of it would matter
[00:22:06.869]if Canvas didn't integrate with Box so well.
[00:22:10.628]And I'll show you how that works, as well.
[00:22:12.845]Also, as a backup, this is, it's just imperative
[00:22:16.734]that I have this multiple redundancies of this.
[00:22:21.413]You know, if I have an entire rock class
[00:22:23.538]that took me a few years to develop,
[00:22:26.858]I'm going to have several redundancies,
[00:22:28.702]because I know what happens to hard drives.
[00:22:33.003]They, they tend to fail.
[00:22:36.010]And you know, I don't like being reliant
[00:22:39.435]on carrying, at one point, I had a 128 gigabyte,
[00:22:45.066]you know, flash card, I don't want to carry that around.
[00:22:48.990]And those are unreliable anyway.
[00:22:51.115]I'm not comfortable, really, with any,
[00:22:53.286]even an external hard drive like this, over two terabytes.
[00:22:59.088]When they get into the three to four range,
[00:23:01.282]and you can get them, but the failure rate is greater.
[00:23:05.752]So I just, I don't trust them.
[00:23:12.254]It's, I try to stay away
[00:23:14.286]from just flat out bashing Blackboard,
[00:23:16.585]because it does some things really well.
[00:23:18.814]But I think Canvas does them better.
[00:23:21.670]It lets me use native file formats,
[00:23:23.911]and that's the most important part,
[00:23:26.372]so I can stay away from having to just do screen capture
[00:23:30.529]of everything that I'm doing.
[00:23:32.990]Screen capture, again, it has its place, and in many cases,
[00:23:36.693]it's the only tool, and it's the best tool.
[00:23:39.166]But for what I'm doing, I don't want
[00:23:41.163]to have to use the screen capture.
[00:23:44.426]It gives me entire, I don't have to worry
[00:23:48.884]about protecting this media.
[00:23:50.823]It's behind a firewall, nobody's downloading it.
[00:23:54.315]And I'm paranoid enough, I go in every semester,
[00:23:56.372]and make sure that those little checkboxes
[00:23:58.786]are still unchecked, so that I don't have to worry
[00:24:02.699]about someone downloading these files.
[00:24:05.741]The import from semester to semester
[00:24:09.657]is so much faster, so much easier.
[00:24:11.722]Have you done this in Blackboard before,
[00:24:13.408]where you export a course out,
[00:24:15.451]and then it puts it on your hard drive,
[00:24:17.007]and then you have to import it?
[00:24:19.631]It's a little chaotic, it's so much easier with Blackboard.
[00:24:24.217]And then the things that I'm presenting,
[00:24:27.015]with a great deal of media,
[00:24:29.058]just look and sound better in Canvas.
[00:24:32.820]So I'm going to show you a few things.
[00:24:36.860]Here's, one is we're on the Beatles.
[00:24:42.201]Here's a Beatles presentation.
[00:24:45.672]And this is the way I want it to look,
[00:24:48.328]and this is the way I develop it in Keynote.
[00:24:51.895]Let's make sure the sound is working.
[00:24:59.520]And it's not.
[00:25:03.455]And connect it to the speaker.
[00:25:07.774]Connect it to (too far off mic)
[00:25:10.317]Yep.
[00:25:14.562]All right, so, and by the way,
[00:25:17.373]because this is one of the files
[00:25:20.182]that has my voiceover on it, you know,
[00:25:23.154]that's what this is for, so you can also
[00:25:25.302]just play it back as a regular Keynote file, so.
[00:25:38.012]("In My Life" by the Beatles)
[00:25:46.754]♫ There are places I remember
[00:25:51.175]♫ All my life, though some have changed
[00:25:56.089]♫ Some forever, not for better
[00:26:00.652]♫ Some have gone and some remain
[00:26:05.447]♫ All these places have their moments
[00:26:09.995]♫ With lovers and friends I still can recall
[00:26:14.395]♫ Some are dead and some are living
[00:26:18.932]♫ In my life, I've loved them all
[00:26:28.522]♫ But of all these friends and lovers
[00:26:33.029]♫ There is no one compares with you
[00:26:37.661]♫ And these memories lose their meaning
[00:26:42.282]♫ When I think of love as something new
[00:26:47.030]♫ Though I know I'll never lose affection
[00:26:51.976]♫ For people and things that went before
[00:26:56.585]♫ I know I'll often stop and think about them
[00:27:01.143]♫ In my life, I love you more
[00:27:20.125]So that's, that's pretty good quality,
[00:27:22.087]and that's what I want, the only thing that's better,
[00:27:24.444]and I'll show you, is if I'm using
[00:27:28.194]something that I've downloaded from iTunes.
[00:27:34.754]Here's a good example.
[00:27:39.279]This is a movie that I purchased, it's in full HD.
[00:27:45.223]And you can see the difference in how it looks, maybe.
[00:27:51.086](mumbles)
[00:27:56.144]Hm.
[00:27:59.802]Why is it going gray screen?
[00:28:04.745]Yep, I'm on the Wifi.
[00:28:08.948]And it's, it's down, it's even on my computer,
[00:28:11.455]it's not in the cloud.
[00:28:14.253]Try it one more time, nope.
[00:28:19.399]Let me try another one, I just downloaded
[00:28:21.137]a Beatles thing, the Ron Howard Beatles movie.
[00:28:31.890]See if this works.
[00:28:35.206]Nope, it's gray screening everything.
[00:28:36.901]Any idea why it'd be doing that?
[00:28:39.581](students speak off mic)
[00:28:48.533]I don't know.
[00:28:50.983]We don't have airplay here, do we?
[00:28:53.352]Um, yeah. Okay.
[00:28:55.906]Well regardless, HD does look better.
[00:29:00.260]It's the only format that looks better than what I'm using.
[00:29:03.799]And so, a lot of these movies that I have on here
[00:29:08.930]will look like, oh, let me pull up an example here.
[00:29:15.417]Something like this.
[00:29:20.582](mumbles) Yeah, and so something like this.
[00:29:25.558]♫ Ate our last few jars of caviar
[00:29:28.901]♫ And somewhere out there in the stars
[00:29:31.839]♫ A keen-eyed look-out
[00:29:33.429]♫ Spied a flickering light
[00:29:35.565]♫ Our last hurrah
[00:29:39.641]♫ Our last hurrah
[00:29:45.411]♫ And when they found our shadows
[00:29:48.812]But frankly, even that's not full HD.
[00:29:53.213]Most of that looks as good in the Keynote
[00:29:55.697]as it does on here, the only thing
[00:29:57.568]that will look better is HD.
[00:29:59.100]And you have to be careful with HD,
[00:30:01.376]because when I first started doing this,
[00:30:03.257]I would rip my movies to full DV format,
[00:30:05.801]which made the files extraordinarily large.
[00:30:08.100]But then I'd play them back, and unless your projector
[00:30:11.525]was really good, it didn't look good at all.
[00:30:16.169]You have to have a projector that will actually display HD,
[00:30:19.880]or else you're really limited by the projector.
[00:30:22.887]So I learned that lesson, as well.
[00:30:25.209]I had to go back and develop all of my film clips,
[00:30:29.308]so that they were in the right file format,
[00:30:31.932]and take them out of full digital video.
[00:30:34.915]Now the good part of that is,
[00:30:37.075]suddenly I went from having files, say my Beatles lecture
[00:30:41.603]being 25 gigabytes, not it's only four.
[00:30:46.874]So that part helped, it wasn't a big degradation,
[00:30:51.309]but it was enough.
[00:30:53.352]Oh, you know what, no, no, that wouldn't explain it, either.
[00:30:57.357]This is still set up this way, okay.
[00:31:01.038]So when I go in and do this, this is what it looks like
[00:31:04.093]in non-presentation form, and,
[00:31:07.669]I set it up with clips.
[00:31:10.652]Now some of these slides will have multiple videos in them.
[00:31:14.342]Some of them will have audio files in them, as well.
[00:31:19.209]Some of them are just photos.
[00:31:21.830]But they all have some sort of, and some form of, media.
[00:31:27.464]And,
[00:31:31.446]again, you can control it from the computer,
[00:31:34.836]and even while I'm develop, when I'm putting this
[00:31:36.795]into the online course, and I'm lecturing over this,
[00:31:40.082]and by the way, you have a number of options
[00:31:43.229]as to how you want to present this.
[00:31:45.086]I've seen everything from professors
[00:31:47.188]who will put a video camera back there in the lecture hall,
[00:31:51.135]and just videotape their lecture,
[00:31:53.260]and then throw them up online.
[00:31:55.326]Or I could have a little box up in the corner
[00:31:57.927]with my face on it, but that's just inviting abuse.
[00:32:01.942]So I don't do it, I just have, I do a voiceover.
[00:32:05.518]That's my preferred way, you can do it any way you wish
[00:32:10.429]with these presentations, and again,
[00:32:12.312]you can do it in Powerpoint or in Keynote,
[00:32:14.895]just depends on what your platform is,
[00:32:17.194]and what you're most comfortable with.
[00:32:18.865]I know Mac people who are more comfortable
[00:32:20.582]using Powerpoint, so you know, again, the,
[00:32:24.624]At the time, there were lots
[00:32:25.982]of those sort of bands that were, you know,
[00:32:27.780]Laughing Joe and his Medicine Band,
[00:32:30.220]Thank You, One Band Man kind of group names, you know,
[00:32:34.087]Colonel Tucker's Medicinal Brew and Compound.
[00:32:37.628]So I just thought oh, well you know,
[00:32:39.044]if there was a band, what would be a mad name for it?
[00:32:41.946]♫ Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
[00:32:46.995]It was basically Paul's idea to call,
[00:32:49.830]the band came in and said, you know, he had this song,
[00:32:53.649]Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and
[00:32:55.914]So that's a file that
[00:32:58.840]I found in the Beatles Anthology.
[00:33:01.080]And I found the section that I needed
[00:33:03.635]to explain Sgt. Pepper, and put it into Final Cut,
[00:33:07.501]pared it down, put, you know, fade in, fade outs on it,
[00:33:12.249]and then set it up in Keynote to cube it in and cube it out.
[00:33:15.662]I want it to look good, with an online class,
[00:33:20.167]or even in person, if I'm trying to explain
[00:33:23.789]what a revolutionary album, Sgt. Pepper's, is,
[00:33:28.515]and then I show them something that looks terrible
[00:33:30.628]and sounds terrible, I ain't going
[00:33:31.916]to think it's revolutionary at all.
[00:33:33.867]Kids are used to media, students are used to media
[00:33:37.013]looking and sounding really quite good, most of it's HD.
[00:33:42.377]Now the other side of that is, they're also used to Youtube.
[00:33:45.150]And Youtube stuff is all over the map.
[00:33:47.996]Some of it is wonderful, some of it is just,
[00:33:52.230]I can't listen to it.
[00:33:54.018]Often times I'll find out that my students'
[00:33:55.690]only point of reference in listening to classical music
[00:33:58.952]is on Youtube, which drives me crazy,
[00:34:02.632]because we have Naxos, we have a music library fill of CDs.
[00:34:06.543]There are many ways they can listen to this
[00:34:08.855]and have better fidelity.
[00:34:10.712]So this is ultimately where I want things to go, and
[00:34:17.597]Canvas, let me get back there now,
[00:34:22.044]Canvas allows me to
[00:34:27.211]take all of that work that I enjoy doing,
[00:34:30.554]and make it pay off, and make it look good.
[00:34:33.097]So this is, come on,
[00:34:37.938]they just added all of the fall courses,
[00:34:40.620]and the summer courses, to Canvas.
[00:34:44.659]But here is, so this is my fall rock class,
[00:34:48.747]this is the one I'm in now, these are my two summer courses.
[00:34:53.469]So the course I'm in now is this,
[00:34:56.557]and you go to the Modules.
[00:35:02.558]And this is the way I have it set up.
[00:35:04.672]So in Canvas, I put the video files.
[00:35:10.721]I also print out a PDF, when I do the video files
[00:35:14.274]in Keynote, it has a print function,
[00:35:17.942]that I can print as PDF, and so they get the slides,
[00:35:21.328]so that they don't have to feel like
[00:35:23.137]they have to furiously take notes.
[00:35:25.170]They can actually pay attention
[00:35:26.567]while the lecture's going on,
[00:35:28.016]and then go back to the PDFs, and see the notes.
[00:35:31.230]And then it's presented in four sections.
[00:35:34.262]So here's part one, after each lecture there's a short,
[00:35:38.302]10 point, five point lecture exam,
[00:35:41.066]and then there's the larger exam over the whole part one.
[00:35:45.489]Part two, same sort of thing.
[00:35:48.168]Now in addition to that,
[00:35:50.790]we have these documentary videos that I want them to see.
[00:35:54.362]Part of, a great deal of it, is this PBS
[00:35:58.066]History of Rock series, which is long out of print.
[00:36:01.336]The last time it was available in print was on VHS, huh.
[00:36:05.863]And it was really difficult to get it over
[00:36:09.452]to digital format, it was back in Arc Hall,
[00:36:12.074]when we still had, what was that called over there?
[00:36:15.886](student speaks)
[00:36:16.719]The New Media Center in Arc Hall.
[00:36:18.185]I was able to go over with all of those VHS tapes,
[00:36:20.786]transfer them into digital.
[00:36:23.117]There was a bit of degradation, but it's not too bad.
[00:36:26.590]They're still worth it, because the content is so good.
[00:36:30.048]But one of the reasons it was never developed past VHS was
[00:36:34.752]they couldn't get a renewal of the licenses
[00:36:38.049]for all the songs.
[00:36:40.046]And they, sometimes in rock and roll and pop music,
[00:36:42.948]it's really difficult to do that.
[00:36:44.968]There are certain films, ah, go into the fourth section,
[00:36:49.510]like this one, ah, where is it, no, third section,
[00:36:56.186]called The Wrecking Crew, where this film
[00:36:59.621]took years to come out,
[00:37:00.807]because they couldn't get permissions for it, so.
[00:37:05.433]I want them to be able to see these things,
[00:37:07.420]but it has to be behind this firewall.
[00:37:10.566]And this, you know, say they click on this.
[00:37:12.447]This is what they're going to see.
[00:37:15.676]It'll show up like this, and hit play,
[00:37:19.796]and they can watch it in this size window, if they wish.
[00:37:24.521](joyful crowd babbling)
[00:37:31.209](jumbled music and speech)
[00:37:34.889]Brian? Here you go.
[00:37:35.722]Brian? Yes.
[00:37:36.555]Do you want me to lay on the piano
[00:37:38.095]after this little break, and then come back in
[00:37:40.139]with the chorus at the end?
[00:37:40.972]What's that,es, this is linked from Box.
[00:37:45.156]Here we go.
[00:37:47.571]("Good Vibrations" by the Beach Boys)
[00:37:52.343]These videos that I put in here are not HD.
[00:37:55.602]Oh, okay.
[00:37:56.435]Nope, they are m4v or mp4 format,
[00:37:59.433]but they are still Quicktime videos.
[00:38:00.848]They are not TechSmith screen capture videos.
[00:38:04.414]And they do look different and better.
[00:38:08.034]Now there's the part that I like is,
[00:38:10.253]they have the option to do this.
[00:38:11.612](varied music in snippets)
[00:38:22.456]all right, so we can get further into the movie.
[00:38:26.426]Then it became a playground, that time.
[00:38:29.565]This led to a surge in work
[00:38:31.086]for L.A. studio musicians, not all of them,
[00:38:33.721]but a small group who later
[00:38:35.103]became known as The Wrecking Crew.
[00:38:37.384]("Twisting the Night Away" by Sam Cooke)
[00:38:45.072]It wasn't an organized band of musicians
[00:38:46.697]that set out to take over rock and roll,
[00:38:47.530]and I can't tell you exact--
[00:38:49.482]This is not an embedded video,
[00:38:51.643]this is actually linked to Box.
[00:38:55.174]And again, if a student chooses to do the course
[00:38:59.306]on the phone, they're going to go through a lot of data,
[00:39:03.578]if they're not on Wifi, but they can do it.
[00:39:06.656]The cellular data, it buffers well enough
[00:39:09.779]through Box that it's not a problem.
[00:39:12.554]But you can see that, and I'll show you this actually,
[00:39:15.375]you can see with
[00:39:18.707]the modules,
[00:39:21.041]that the Beatles lecture that I just showed to you
[00:39:23.468]starts out the exact same way.
[00:39:25.975]And you can see that there's very little,
[00:39:28.959]if any, degrading of the video or the audio.
[00:39:42.332]Sometimes it does, this is a little oddity.
[00:39:44.958]Sometimes it'll do that, and it'll take a reboot
[00:39:49.439]to get it to full screen, but there it is.
[00:39:52.236][Instructor On Recording] Now for one
[00:39:53.069]of my favorite lectures, my lecture four
[00:39:55.034]So this is, this is,
[00:39:56.277]and one of my students pointed this out,
[00:39:58.364]this is one of my fixes over the summer.
[00:40:00.457]My voice is too, is too soft,
[00:40:04.787]and I need to bump up my mic settings.
[00:40:07.435]When I was listening to it on headphones,
[00:40:09.301]it didn't seem to be a problem,
[00:40:10.639]but it is when they're listening to it, so here's,
[00:40:14.383][Instructor On Recording] This marks
[00:40:15.478]the beginning of the Beatles.
[00:40:17.963]Here's what it looks like.
[00:40:26.844]("In My Life" by the Beatles)
[00:40:35.389]♫ There are places I remember
[00:40:39.894]♫ All my life, though some have changed
[00:40:44.537]♫ Some forever, not for better
[00:40:49.251]♫ Some are gone
[00:40:50.900]When I did that with TechsSmith,
[00:40:52.464]it didn't look that good, it was grainy, it was slow.
[00:40:56.548]If I wanted to skip ahead in the movie or in the lecture,
[00:40:58.928]I couldn't do it, because it wouldn't buffer well enough.
[00:41:01.725]Now it works very well, and again,
[00:41:06.092]it's because it's coming from Box,
[00:41:08.994]and it's saving it in the original file format.
[00:41:12.222]Now, I told you about moving courses.
[00:41:15.891]Say I want to take this, go back to the Dashboard,
[00:41:19.061]and this is one of the pretty cool features of Canvas,
[00:41:23.543]is you go back to the Dashboard,
[00:41:26.721]and it has all of my courses listed.
[00:41:30.337]I color code them, because I have,
[00:41:32.622]these are all things that I'm teaching right now.
[00:41:34.630]They yellow ones are my rock history courses.
[00:41:36.929]So say I want to set up my fall course,
[00:41:42.084]and I want to pull it directly from,
[00:41:46.368]from the course that I'm using.
[00:41:50.060]So I can go in,
[00:41:53.404]under Settings, and I can import
[00:41:56.945]content over here into this course, it'll ask me
[00:42:04.004]what I want to do, I'm going to copy a Canvas course.
[00:42:09.354]It asks me which one.
[00:42:16.960]And it'll ask me do I want all of it,
[00:42:19.712]or do I want to select it, right.
[00:42:23.229]And generally, I choose this one,
[00:42:25.935]and then adjust from there, but you can do either way.
[00:42:30.332]You hit Import, and because you're not importing
[00:42:33.221]the files themselves, you're just importing links,
[00:42:35.719]it's almost instantaneous.
[00:42:38.749]You get an email, and it says it's done.
[00:42:41.431]And that's how easy this is, all right.
[00:42:46.362]You can use adjusted events and due dates.
[00:42:48.893]I generally don't, I want to make sure,
[00:42:52.098]it's almost more work sometimes to go in
[00:42:54.025]and have to figure out, because it doesn't
[00:42:56.359]account for breaks, and things like that.
[00:42:58.425]It's almost easier to just go in
[00:42:59.749]and put the due dates and events,
[00:43:02.068]like fall break, or Thanksgiving break,
[00:43:04.776]into the calendar off of the syllabus.
[00:43:07.771]So you hit Import, and it's set up.
[00:43:10.558]Now this is all under the Settings format.
[00:43:16.188]And if I go back to this, all right,
[00:43:18.893]so you can see, I don't know if they didn't,
[00:43:21.053]no, I have 31 so far enrolled for fall.
[00:43:23.931]It'll be in the four to 600 range
[00:43:27.624]by the time the course actually is published.
[00:43:30.490]This is another really nice thing about Canvas is,
[00:43:36.145]right now, students can't see this,
[00:43:39.164]until I hit this button over here that says Publish.
[00:43:43.170]All right, if I go back to
[00:43:48.615]this,
[00:43:50.635]and actually, I've set my first summer course up,
[00:43:53.607]because I want them to be able to see the syllabus,
[00:43:57.566]and know which textbooks they're going to use.
[00:44:00.436]I've set this up, and it's published, right.
[00:44:04.541]But as soon as I hit this button,
[00:44:07.850]now it's unpublished, they can't see it.
[00:44:10.936]It's as simple as that.
[00:44:13.364]And I can publish it, and it's back up again.
[00:44:16.974]You can do that with the entire course.
[00:44:18.705]You can also do that with individual modules.
[00:44:22.455]So say you're in the middle of teaching the course,
[00:44:27.062]and you've got all of this ready to go,
[00:44:29.734]and you've got all this ready to go.
[00:44:32.335]You're not quite ready for this.
[00:44:34.675]You can unpublish this section,
[00:44:37.661]and just leave it until you're ready to put it online.
[00:44:42.247]It's as simple as that.
[00:44:44.278]You can edit these things.
[00:44:49.759]So, I keep this locked until, what I do with the course is,
[00:44:54.786]until they're finished with the exam for the first part,
[00:44:57.526]I lock down the second part.
[00:44:59.442]Because I've had students email me and ask,
[00:45:02.507]"Can I just do the whole course
[00:45:03.981]"in, you know, "two or three weeks?"
[00:45:06.106]No, (chuckles) I don't want them to do that.
[00:45:08.614]I actually, time is my control mechanism on this.
[00:45:12.306]So I want to use these lock down features.
[00:45:14.964]And it works, it's easy, and it works well.
[00:45:17.983]So when you're done with it, you jut hit Update.
[00:45:21.132]Sorry, I lost my place, or you hit Update,
[00:45:23.175]or, in this case, I'm going to cancel out of it,
[00:45:24.871]and you're all set.
[00:45:26.693]So Canvas has
[00:45:31.999]an email, or a messaging system,
[00:45:34.368]where if I want to send a message,
[00:45:36.806]it's, you don't have to go into an individual course
[00:45:39.731]up on the Dashboard, you pick them from this menu.
[00:45:43.249]So if I want to email my entire history of rock class
[00:45:46.152]for this spring, I do this, I do this, and select Students.
[00:45:56.018]And there we go.
[00:45:58.375]So I will also get, the emails that I get in here,
[00:46:03.005]in the Settings, I also had it send it
[00:46:04.540]through my regular email account,
[00:46:06.339]so I get them twice, just so I don't miss anything.
[00:46:10.262]All right, so there are all number of settings
[00:46:12.655]that you can use in Canvas to make this very user friendly.
[00:46:19.668]And one of the things that I discovered,
[00:46:21.072]especially the online course is,
[00:46:24.103]if I don't get back to students
[00:46:26.097]in a timely fashion, they're at a disadvantage.
[00:46:30.058]So I, if they have a problem, I want to know about it.
[00:46:34.250]That being said,
[00:46:36.767]when I go back and think about giving exams in Blackboard,
[00:46:42.501]when I'd have 300 students, every exam,
[00:46:45.844]I would have 20 to 30% of the exams crash.
[00:46:49.804]And I'd have to go in and manually reset them all.
[00:46:53.972]I just gave exam three, actually,
[00:46:57.394]this whole semester, we're through exam three now
[00:47:00.622]in the course, and I have had a grand total
[00:47:03.398]of two exams crash this whole semester.
[00:47:07.069]And it was because of equipment failures
[00:47:09.495]on their side, it was not due to Canvas.
[00:47:12.793]So that, I mean, that's made my life so much easier.
[00:47:15.939]The old idea of Blackboard, where I had to
[00:47:20.223]stay up until whatever hour of the night,
[00:47:22.754]and make sure that things didn't crash,
[00:47:24.786]and I didn't have to reset it,
[00:47:26.282]those days are over, which is great.
[00:47:29.627]But what drew me to this is, again,
[00:47:32.924]I could integrate all of this,
[00:47:35.246]because it's a rock class, but I suspect for any class,
[00:47:38.415]I can import all of this stuff
[00:47:40.076]that I've made look good and sound good,
[00:47:42.375]all of this multimedia, including photos,
[00:47:45.962]including everything,
[00:47:48.644]and upload it into Box, link it through Canvas,
[00:47:52.545]and we're set.
[00:47:55.119]And it does what I want it to do, it is so much
[00:47:58.115]more efficient with my time than Blackboard was.
[00:48:02.991]And the fact that we are transitioning
[00:48:05.045]out of Blackboard by, this time next year?
[00:48:08.824](students talk off mic)
[00:48:14.624]Yeah, so Fall 2018 is the last, is Canvas.
[00:48:18.532](students talk off mic)
[00:48:31.717]Yeah, so,
[00:48:34.806]I've been sold on Canvas since the beginning,
[00:48:37.984]and I think it's so much easier for faculty to use.
[00:48:44.000]And it's easy to set up, there are just,
[00:48:47.771]I don't see any downsides to Canvas at this point.
[00:48:52.417]And again, I'm not going to bash Blackboard,
[00:48:55.121]but there were plenty of things that
[00:48:58.675]just were more work for me.
[00:49:01.020]So, do you have any questions about any of this?
[00:49:06.512]And my advice is, get someone to set up
[00:49:09.658]what they call a sandbox for you,
[00:49:12.384]and just go in and start working in it.
[00:49:14.720](students talk off mic)
[00:49:21.582]It, it's easy, once you get into it
[00:49:24.529]and start to figure out the vernacular of Canvas,
[00:49:29.465]it's an easy setup.
[00:49:33.212]Next, think we're out of time.
[00:49:35.551]And I'm almost out of battery, thank you so much.
[00:49:39.661](students talk off mic)

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