Planning your videos

Deciding on the content is the most important part of the process. While your lecture materials may already be developed, this outline will help organize your content for online delivery. 

• Select the material and determine which topics to create recordings for.
• Consider pre-recording some lecture content of each topic for each week.
  
• Are there existing lectures online that you can use in your course? (ie youtube, Ted Talks)
• Recordings and slides are done at least 4 weeks before the session. 

Sample video recording list

1. Faculty intro: 1-3 minutes, informal, video only, no slides
• Include name, role, background info pertaining to course
2. Course intro: 5-15 minutes, video with slides and/or screen capture of course site
• How to do well in the course, overview of each week, expectations
  
3. Topic Videos: each about 10 mins, video with slides – How many topic videos? (60 minutes max per week)
• Introduction of a topic, main ideas
• Students will watch it on their own, asynchronously
• Use content that will stay relevant year after year, take out dates and all references to time so that videos can be used on their own or moved as needed
• Videos to be used more than one term will be close captioned, a written display of the audio. Keep the slides simple and leave space clear at the bottom for the captioning