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You can use your mobile device (smartphone/tablet) as a video recorder to record lessons or demonstrations to be viewed by your students on-demand (as opposed to live). This is beneficial as it allows you to record a high-quality video that can be viewed at any time by your students. With recorded content, the students do not have to be in front of their computer at a pre-determined time to participate in a video conference. Additionally, the quality of a live video conference is dependant on internet bandwidth, which his highly variable. The recorded content will always be high-quality, since it's not dependant on internet bandwidth.
You can use your mobile device (smartphone/tablet) as a video recorder to record lessons or demonstrations to be viewed by your students on-demand (as opposed to live). This is beneficial as it allows you to record a high-quality video that can be viewed at any time by your students. With recorded content, the students do not have to be in front of their computer at a pre-determined time to participate in a video conference. Additionally, the quality of a live video conference is dependant on internet bandwidth, which his highly variable. The recorded content will always be high-quality, since it's not dependant on internet bandwidth.
Hippo Video has a mobile app that allows you to use your phone's camera to record content as a handheld camera (or as a stationary document camera) and automatically stores the video in your Hippo Video library online where it can be added directly to Google Classroom, eliminating the need to manually upload the file(s) to Google Drive. This is an easy way to record your voice while demonstrating your concepts. Once the files are saved into your Hippo Video library, you can follow Ben Stevens' Hippo Video training session for more information about getting it into Google Classroom (fast forward to about 18:58 to see how videos can be uploaded to Google Classroom from the Hippo Video library.)
Here is a short video about the mobile app. At about :40 seconds into this video, the speaker instructs you to SEND or SHARE. This is not needed -- The video has already been uploaded to your Hippo Video library which you can access via http://hippovideo.io to be used in Google Classroom.
Using your mobile phone's built-in camera app to record videos
Using your mobile phone's built-in camera app to record videos
Lower video resolution = smaller file size = faster upload time
Lower video resolution = smaller file size = faster upload time
The amount of space consumed by recording videos is related to the resolution at which they're recorded. Lowering the resolution will use less space on your device, and speed the upload process when you upload the videos to Google Drive. This quick clip will show you how to change this setting on an iPhone. Android users should be able to make similar changes to their phones.
You can then use the Google Drive app to upload your videos to Google Drive.
Even with the lower resolution, videos recorded on modern smartphones are still very high-quality recordings, and create very large files -- much larger than we need for our purposes. If your videos are more than a few minutes, the time it takes to upload the recording can be annoyingly long, especially over a slower internet connection.
There is an iPhone/iPad app called COMPRESS that can compress the size of the video file to a much more manageable size (1/3 original size). This allows you to make the file smaller, which means it can upload to Google Drive much faster. There are similar apps for Android. See example below -- notice the quality is not significantly lower, but the size is much smaller.
Uploading phone/tablet content to Google Drive
Uploading phone/tablet content to Google Drive
The first step is to make sure the Google Drive app is installed on your mobile device. This allows your device to access the files stored in Google Drive, as well as provides the ability to copy photos and videos from your device to Google Drive.
Click the links below to see an example for each device:
iPhone / iPad - Ignore the parts about "WeVideo" -- the steps for getting the photos / videos into Google Drive are all you need to know.
Linking to video content from Google Classroom
Linking to video content from Google Classroom
When you're ready to post a video as an assignment in Google Classroom, you first need to have the video somewhere accessible. This could be a video on Loom, HippoVideo, YouTube, or Google Drive.
Each platform is a bit different, but each is capable of providing a link to your video that you can share, and it is this URL that you need to put into Classroom.
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