How to record your completed project as a video slide show with your narration -- the easiest way!

 Hello everyone! You should all now have received feedback from me on your draft projects, which are
coming along beautifully. Great work, everyone. 

For your completed project, you will be posting a video recording, approximately 20 minutes long, of your completed slides with your voice(s) and (probably) face(s), narrating and presenting the slides that present your project. Here are some details about an easy way to create and post the recording, along with some ideas about other techniques you are welcome to experiment with:

Recording your slide show with narration as a Zoom video recording:

Since we have all become very familiar with Zoom, I suggest this might be the easiest way --

• Create a Zoom meeting and join with your project partner (or just by yourself if you did a solo project)

• Share your slides

• Press 'record', and record to your computer

• Do your slide show on Zoom, as it records the video.

• Stop the recording when you come to the very end.

• Leave the Zoom meeting. You'll see a notice on screen saying that they are processing your video (takes about 30 minutes or so).

• Once your video is completed, upload it to your Google Drive, or One Drive, or YouTube channel, or Vimeo channel, or some other platform that will allow you to share it.

• Share the link to your project slide show video to the class blog (make your own new post to share it). If you have additional materials, appendices, lesson plans, etc., you can share those links in the same blog post. Make sure to share so that 'anyone with the link' can view.

And that's it!

Recording your slide show with narration via PowerPoint, Keynote, Prezzi, Canva, etc.

Each of these platforms also has a 'record' button and a way to create a recording of your presentation. Feel free to use one of these if it suits you better than Zoom. Then share your completed video as above.

Some of these platforms (perhaps Canva in particular?) have an option to have your face appear in a cameo or vignette (oval inset) in the corner of your slide screen. Tamara Shand's example from the 2024 cohort has that, and I believe Oliver and Kristie T. have figured out how to do this too, if you want to ask them how.