Editing Building Successful Online Communities (Spring 2021)/Final presentation (section)

== Presentation Format: Video Presentations ==

I are asking you all to prepare and share video version of your presentations as "pitches" for our project.

In terms of the video: ''I are not expecting anything fancy''. I understand that folks are coming to this with different technical skills and working in a variety of living situations due to the pandemic. I am going to assess you entirely on the content of your presentation and pitch. I will not assess you on the production quality of your video. The pitches should be '''10-12 minutes long''' and '''not more than 15 minutes in length'''.

I'm quite open into the nature of the video but here are some ideas:

* Giving a talk in an empty Zoom room with recording on works pretty well!
* If you have been building your presentation in PowerPoint, Keynote, or similar, you can create a "screencast" that records audio of yourself talking while recording video of whatever is on your screen. There are a bunch of tools to do this.
** Here's [https://betanews.com/2019/01/14/windows-10-screen-recorder-ultility/ information on how to use a built-in screen recorder in Windows 10]
** Here's [https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208721 information on how to do screen recording on Mac OSX]
** Here's [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4Kh4wtVH-U a video about how to record yourself using Microsoft PowerPoint on Windows]
** Some people like the following software: [https://www.techsmith.com/video-editor.html Camtasia] (proprietary but has a free trial); [https://camstudio.org/ CamStudio] (free/open source software but harder to use). I haven't used either.
* If it's easier, feel free to just use a cellphone or webcam video. For example, have a friend record you as you talk through an actual "poster" version of your presentation laid out on a table.

If you run into trouble, please ask on Teams for help. Keep in mind that I use Linux and are unlikely to be able to do much to trouble shoot specific problems. That said, your classmates will likely be of some help. If you figured something out, please give advice to others on Discord. If you've got experience doing this, please help your classmates.