Video presentation skills project overview

Submitted by remanuele on 4 February 2013 - 2:59pm

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UAL’s Digital Integration into Arts Learning (DIAL) project aims to carry out a small number of staff and student led projects and case studies, which will explore the pace of technological change and its impact on the day-to-day practices. Read more.

	Video presentation skills

	MA Fashion Entrepreneurship at the London College of Fashion
	The DIAL project led by Laura North set out to help students develop video presentation skills as well as provide support for UAL staff that wishes to teach students about presentation skills.
	15 Students from the MA fashion Entrepreneurship and 3 members of staff
	DIAL \| Chris Follows; Rossella Emanuele‎; Kaye Pryce; Laura North (leading this project)
	All updtaes: http://process.arts.ac.uk/category/project-groups/presentation-skills
	The objective for the DIAL online presentation skills workshops was to work out ways of developing video presentation skills with students. A wider aim is to provide a tecahing and Learning Resource with the outline of the workshop and supporting materials that UAL Staff can use to teach students about Presenation Skills. Workshop 1 - trying out video pitching Workshop 1, part 1 - filming one minute video pitches without training Workshop 1, part 2 - watching the video pitches on a big screen Workshop 2 - video pitch training and practice Workshop 2, part 1 – training on how to do a video elevator pitch Workshop 2, part 2 – exercises to practice video presentations Workshop 3 - peer feedback Workshop 3 – Peer feedback on the before and after videos
	A collaboration between LCF, DIAL, Speaking Out and SEE to develop a pilot workshop model to teach video presentation skills and confidence to students.
	Online Resource - Video of the workshop outline and additional supporting materials that can be used to teach these skills to students.
	CHALLENGE: There were some technical issues. It took quite a long time to upload the videos ready for playback to the students and getting the video player to work was tricky. VLC seemed to be the best option. The worst tech problems happened in the final evaluation workshop while using the large touch screens in the classrooms at High Holborn. The touch screen proved harder to use when uploading a lot of video. SOLUTION: A solution to this would be developing some sort of training or guidance around technical equipment, including some basic information about transferring videos from Flip cameras or mobile phones to the computer and guidance around using video players such as VLC, for example how to adjust volume and rotate portrait videos
	Lessons learned: 1. No work has been done on uploading videos to YouTube or Vimeo and then embedding in blogs or websites. It would be useful To develop guidance on this. 2. The videos were unedited, but video editing skills would be a useful skill to develop as well
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