Tip #4:  Create video thumbnails for your lecture, presentation, and demonstration videos.
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Tip #4:  Create video thumbnails for your lecture, presentation, and demonstration videos.

According to Youtube, 90% of top-performing videos use a custom thumbnail Sure, creating thumbnails for your videos takes a few minutes, but research shows that people (including your students) are likelier to watch the videos if they have a custom thumbnail. To streamline the process, I suggest sticking with one or two templates from Adobe Express and just changing out the text and maybe the colors each time. There is no need to start over from scratch. Keep your thumbnails consistent from one video to the next. Adobe Express has hundreds of video thumbnail presets you can use to get started.…
December 13, 2022Posted inApps, Video, YouTubeTags: , , ,
Tip #3:  Use free images from Unsplash for your lectures and presentations
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Tip #3:  Use free images from Unsplash for your lectures and presentations

Over 3 million free high-resolution images are brought to you by the world’s most generous community of photographers. Unsplash.com has a growing collection of high-quality images that anyone can use for any purpose. Unsplash "grants you an irrevocable, nonexclusive, worldwide copyright license to download, copy, modify, distribute, perform, and use photos from Unsplash for free, including for commercial purposes, without permission from or attributing the photographer or Unsplash."Creating an account with Unsplash is optional. I've been using the website for years and have never created an account. Downloading images is simple; you can choose from various sizes to fit your needs.Current…
December 5, 2022Posted inPhoto, Tech WebsitesTags: , , ,
Tip #2: Battle misinformation with open-access research using Consensus
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Tip #2: Battle misinformation with open-access research using Consensus

Evidence-Based Answers, Faster Consensus.app works by using AI to scan through hundreds of millions of articles to find evidence-based answers to your question. I love a good debate with students, but sometimes we need to start with scientifi-based research. Steps from the website include: Step 1: The user enters a query. Step 2: AI searches through the database of hundreds of millions of scientific papers for a subset of relevant papers based on a standard keyword search.  Step 3: From these relevant papers, the Consensus model “reads” the papers for you, extracting sentences when authors state their findings based on evidence. I tried using…
November 29, 2022Posted inResearch, Tech WebsitesTags: , , ,
Tip #1: Remove YouTube ads from videos you share in class
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Tip #1: Remove YouTube ads from videos you share in class

How to get classroom YouTube videos ad-free In just a few seconds, you can make Google ads disappear from the video you share in class. This tip works for videos you share in a face-to-face environment, online synchronously using Zoom or other platforms, and it works asynchronously if you want to post the link on D2L Brightspace for viewing later. It’s important to note that the video doesn’t have to be a video you created and posted to YouTube. It will work with any YouTube video, whether you are the owner or not. To remove all the ads from the…
November 22, 2022Posted inVideo, YouTubeTags: , , ,