Second Day in New Orleans
Class schedule:
Basic Audio Recording & Editing 12:15-1:15 (Roy Vanegas and myself)
Basic Video Recording & Editing (Paris Marashi & myself)
I spent the better part of Monday night prepping for my classes. I was a bit nervous, but once I meet my students, and we started to talk about NYU and life in the big city, I felt very comfortable and had a great first class. I was quite impressed with the students. They were asking me questions and were very interested in how they could incorporate what I taught them into projects they were currently working on.
For the Audio class, Roy and I taught the students using Audacity, an open source audio editor. I loaded a few songs into each machine so that they had some audio to work with. We spoke about the various forms of audio formats, and how they can be used. We then spent the rest of the class showing the students how to import and edit the files.
For the Video Recording class, I loaded the machines with some video and audio files that I created because I was not sure that they would have any footage to work on. I taught them how to record video files, import them into an editing platform, and then compress them so that they can be exported. The students were a joy to work with, and I was able to share more information with them than I expected because they were very quick learners.
After class I taught a few students about Wordpress and other video related issues. It was quite an amazing first day, maybe I was meant to be a teacher after all.