GREEN KEEN?
Engaging Mini-Lectures With Green Screen Technology
Presenters from Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences (HiOA):Gabi Hurlen, AslakOrmestad, Emma Vestli
Gabi Hurlen: Advisor in media production and e-learning at HiOA. With a background of media studies Gabi has produced hundreds of mini-lectures with green screen technology. She has both national and international experience with mini lectures and workshops using green screen technology, most recent at Haikou University in the south of China. Gabi is also Media Editor of the two largest titles on HiOA´sedX platform and co-creator of an online course in “how to make online courses”.
AslakOrmestad: Senior advisor in video production at HiOA. Aslak has produced countless of mini-lectures with green screen technology. He has several years of lecturing experience, as well as international workshop experience ranging from Gaza to South Africa. Aslak is also an editor of the institutions video site, Film.hioa.no. He wrote his master thesis on cost efficiency of streamlined video production in institutionsof higher education.
Emma Vestli: Advisor in media productions at HiOA with a master thesis in media studies. Emma has experience with video and green screen productions and web publishing. Working with all media aspects necessary to create online courses.
Topic
Our topic is mini lectures with green screen technology. Our objective is to engage a variety of participants; academics, administrative and business employees. We want them to experience first-hand how innovative use of green screen technology can be used to streamline production of professional mini lectures. Whether it be in their offices, a dedicated studio, a classroom or when traveling. Will be using NewTek´s “TV-studio in a box”, the TriCaster Mini. It is a small and portable piece of machinery, affordable even for small educational institutions.
The underlying subject of our workshop will be the change in paradigm we experience our own and other higher institutions to be in the midst of; The transition from MOOCs and flipped classroom being something new, to it being a domestication process of the different institutions. Borrowing from Domestication theory in the field of media studies,it explains how users/ consumers attempt to “tame” (domesticate) a new technology and fitting it into their lives. But rather than rearranging our living room to accommodate thetelevision, we are now in the process of adapting theentire house to accommodate someone else´s use of screens and televisions. And they are our students. It is our experience that the teaching of our students is an effort shared between academic and administrative staff.
Content and Themes
All themes will be seen from three perspectives; The (academic) lecturer, the (administrative) video producer, and the student.
Our challenge, as in all teaching and learning: How much must the presenters talk for the attendees to be able to do, and how much must the attendees do to understand what the presenters say. The session will begin with a 10-minute mini lecture by the presenters before the hands-on experience. The session will conclude with a 10-minute Q&A in mixed groups.
In the mini-lecture we will talk about:
1)How to prepare for lectures on green screen. The green screen rules of PowerPoint presentations. Lights, camera, computer – what is the bare minimum of equipment, and what do we recommend.
2)How to do it. Where to look, how to point, how to move.
3)Experiences made: What is “good enough”?
During hands-on the attendees will experience:
1)Why there are green screen rules for PowerPoint and the importance of being prepared. Retake does no money make.
2)Why they need to look, point and move in very certain ways.
3)A group discussion about what they have experienced in the context of their own institutions/ companies.
The attendees will be encouraged to ask questions as we go. During the hands-on sessions, the they will choose one of three color cards each representing a different Q&A theme for the last 10 minutes of the session.
Theme 1) The teacher (How do you get them on camera? Carrot or stick?)
Theme 2) The producer (How do you make good videos? TriCaster software)
Theme 3) The student (How to engage the student? Digital ADHD?)
Our Plan
Our plan for half-day workshop depends on the set up and flexibility of location/organization:
Option 1) We want to set up three TriCasters with portable green-screen in three different corners of one large room. Doing three identical tracks of the content and theme outlined above, two times. Three sessions from 09.00 – 10.00 and three sessions from 10.30 – 11.30. That will take 4 hours and accommodate a maximum of 100 attendees. This requires a large room, 9 HDMI monitors/TVs (minimum 24”), 9 HDMI cables and 3 industrial extension cords.
Option2) We set up two TriCasters with portable green-screen in two different corners of one large room. Doing two identical tracks of the content and theme outlined above, two times. Three sessions from 09.00 – 10.00 and three sessions from 10.30 – 11.30. That will take 4 hours and accommodate a maximum of 60 attendees. This requires a large room, 6 HDMI monitors/TVs (minimum 24”), 6 HDMI cables, and 2 industrial extension cords.
Option 3) We set up 1- 3 TriCasters depending on how many can be accommodated with HDMI screens and cables. We have an open door drop-in workshop.