USE OF VIDEO IN AST 195

In many AST 195 projects you will be asked to make videos, which you will post to YouTube (other options are possible, but YouTube is the standard).

· If you do not know how to post a video to YouTube, you need to learn how to do that on your own. Lots of people with very little sense post videos on web all the time, so a smart and sensible student like you certainly can, too. Your professor is usually willing to offer some help, but this is really something for you to do on your own (so you can post your own cat videos and become a YouTube sensation).

· You do not need to put your name on your AST 195 videos. You will find that your professor has his videos posted under the name “Jefferson AST 101” (click here for an example). Feel free to post your AST 195 videos under some generic name also.

· You do not need to be a great video editor. If you made your video in four sessions, you can just send the four videos instead of editing the four into one single video.

· Do not make LONG videos. Long videos take a long time to upload. Furthermore, the default situation YouTube is that you cannot upload videos longer than a few minutes.

· Your videos must always start with you facing the camera and saying “This is Jane/Joe in Astronomy 195 lab, and this is my video for the ______ project”.

· The videos just have to work—they do not have to be works of art. The entire idea is to show the professor that you know how to do certain things. As long as they do that, they are good enough.