2020 #VWEDU: VID: How to make videos in virtual worlds for illustrated instruction or for project-based learning

How to make videos in virtual worlds 

for illustrated instruction

or for project-based learning 

Instructions on making videos in virtual worlds for educational purposes.

• Watch on YouTube

• Case study of a chemical splash accident in a process plant 
• In support of PPT 151 Process Plant Safety at Montana State University Billings.
• Process plant

Use cases

• Teacher creates an illustrated lecture.
• Teacher creates an illustrated instructional unit.
• Project-based learning:  Student(s) create an illustrated project report.

Needed tech

• You need a reasonably capable computer for this.
• At least one step above the cheapest, preferably two.
• And you will not like the speed if you don't have good bandwidth

Software

• Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) is free and opensource for capture.
• Shotcut is free and opensource for editing

You need to know

• How to capture and edit video from a virtual world.
• In badge language, a VR capture badge and a VR editor badge.
• You can start these at the apprentice level.  
• The way you get to journeyman is by practice.

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Skills badge analysis

• The main function of badges is to show what you need to be able to do at each skill level

VR capture badge

• How to use OBS to get video in virtual worlds. Not the long and short of it. Just the short. And a few links to the long.
• Plan to edit in capture: Aim for clips between 3 and 10 minutes.
• Cur after each segment.  Always start recording before the part you want.
• And run a little over the end of the part you want.
• If something goes wrong in the middle, cut and start again just before that point.
• Remember: It is much easier to trim the ends than to edit the middle.

Video editor badge

• Install Shotcut
• Simple video editing with Shotcut, for virtual worlders
• Plan on video products of less than 10 minutes.  
• People do not watch long videos without strong motivation.
• Stick to one topic.  
• For education, put the name of the topic in the video name.
• The best clip for editing is one that can stand by itself.
• Then you only need to trim the ends.
• To combine several clips, bring each clip in, trim it and store the trimmed clip in the playlist bin on the right.
• Then drag the clips into the timeline in the desired order.
• Check the timeline for spacers between the clips and remove them (right click: Remove.) 

Examples

Heavy industry

• Case study in support of a course on process plant safety. Video made safely and at low cost in a user-built virtual world
• Heavy industry: Big equipment: Operator errors can be costly and dangerous. Simulation offers safe learning. And for teams, too.
• Demonstration oil rig: Conversation with an imaginary TA (Teaching Assistant)

Medical technologist

• Virtual Laboratory Training and Career Center: BioHazard
• Virtual Laboratory Training and Career Center: Training, SARS testing
• Virtual Laboratory Training and Career Center: Virus model

Resources

• Free music: Nordensound 
• Free sound effects: Freesound
• Free sound processor: Audacity 
• Text-to-speech software in a browser (search)
• Transcription:  VidReader
• Two Ways to Quickly Create Transcripts of YouTube Videos

Related

• Video/Machinima in virtual worlds. Community, Market, Resources
• How to use OBS to get video in virtual worlds. Not the long and short of it. Just the short. And a few links to the long.
• Transcription of video to text: VidReader
• Four Good Places to Find Audio Files for Multimedia Projects
• Convenient video capture in Windows 10--any window
• Simple video editing with Shotcut, for virtual worlders
• Resources for video production in virtual worlds

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• I am available for free consulting on any topic in this blog.
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