DLC Spring 2019 Class Projects/Bethany Brent

Project Details

For the Digital Case Study project Dr. Brent (EDFD460), you are going to be distilling down 20 hours of data from journal notes and community wealth resources/funds of knowledge resulting in a 6-7 minute video. We will be helping you use one of two tools to complete this project. The first tool you may want to use is called Moovly and it is an online video tool that allows you to animate your video. The second tool we will be showing is PowerPoint that many don't realize can also be used to animate content in dynamic and fun ways. We will demonstrate these two tools in two online Adobe Connect session throughout the semester (3/4 and 3/19). You can also refer to the support resources below for both tools. This resource also provides directions for uploading your video to Youtube and sharing this with your professor.

Hardware/Software

• Moovly
• PowerPoint

Introduction to Moovly

Moovly is a video animation tool that allows you to within a timeline to create streamable videos. The Moovly tool is a free web-based video editing tool that can be accessed by going to https://www.moovly.com and selecting the Login/Sign up for free button. Once you have an account you can learn how the tool works by viewing the following introduction to Moovly.

Introduction to Animation in PowerPoint

Many forget to use PowerPoint can be used to create animated videos. The following resources are all found in Lynda.com. If you don't have a Lynda account make sure to go to our [Lynda] article for information about what this tool is and how to create an account. While this list of resources below covers many tools found in PowerPoint used to animate your videos the recently added the Morph Transition tool for creating dynamic videos may require you to update your version of PowerPoint. The following links will take you to the videos that show both basic to advanced animation resources.

• Morph Tools
• Flip-book Animation
• Zooming Effetcs
• Converting PowerPoints to Movies

Submitting YouTube Vidoe

If you chose to upload your video to YouTube you will need to obtain the URL to that video with your professor and post it to the correct Assignment Submission Folder for this course. The following steps explain how to obtain the URL and submit this video to your professor.

Step 1

Go to the YouTube video you wish to submit for this assignment and click on the Share button below the video.

Step 2

Copy this URL (e.g. https://youtu.be/iMcvcPLQwr8) to your clipboard and pasted it into a Word document (more to come on this in Step 3). Also test the URL in a new tab within your browser to make sure you copied the entire URL.

Step 3

Create a new Word document and paste the URL from your YouTube video along with the Date and Time of your presentation. Save this document as you will be submitting to Assignment Submission Folder for this Assessment.

Step 4

Log into D2L BrightSpace and go the correct Assignment Submission Folder found within the Assessment menu of your course.

Step 5

Click on the Add a File button and upload the saved Word document you created in Step 3.

Step 6

Paste the YouTube video URL, Date, and Time of your video presentation into the Comments Section and click on the Submit button.

DLC STARS/Presenter

• Chad Kjorlien
• ckjorlien@winona.edu
• 507-457-5167

Additional Resources Moovly Channel on YouTube