The edTPA requires the submission of a video clip from your teaching. Requirements for the content, length, and number of clips vary. Consult your discipline specific (i.e., elementary literacy or secondary science) edTPA handbook, artifact and commentary specifications department for requirements for your specific video submission. The resources below will provide you with directions to prepare your video.  Directions include best practices for recording, equipment apply, trimming and compressing your video files.

edTPA Video Product Outline

For information on where to cheque out video recording equipment, please refer to the section on Equipment Resources.

Creation of your edTPA video volition follow the construction outlined below, for more than details exist sure to review the appropriate section.

  1. Record your video
  2. Digitize your video (import to computer)
    • From a video photographic camera, y'all demand to go the video from the camera memory card on to a computer before y'all tin can edit it. If yous have a record based camera, encounter the department on digitizing video from record.
    • If using an iPad, you can record and edit your videos right on the device itself.
  3. Edit your video
    • The edTPA has specific requirements for length of videos, run into your edTPA Handbook for more detailed information.
    • With an iPad, you can record and edit your videos correct on the one device.
  4. Compress Your Video
    • All videos must exist under 200MB, this will virtually probable mean you will need to use a compression tool to exist certain to run into the requirement.

At whatsoever time, you can go to the SMART learning commons for technical help.

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Recording Best Practices

  • Make sure to use a tripod
  • Utilise an external microphone, if possible, so the viewer can hear you lot conspicuously.
    (a wireless, prune-on lapel mic is ideal)
  • Set the photographic camera up to capture the interaction betwixt y'all and your students.
  • Make certain you lot can meet each student clearly.
  • Avoid bright backgrounds, like windows or white boards.
  • Make sure you have decent light on your students
    (from overhead sources, or windows) for a good recording.
  • Plug the camera into the wall to ensure that you don't wear out the battery while recording. At the very least, brand sure to fully charge the camera battery the night before you record.
  • Make sure you have enough blank tape or memory on your photographic camera.

Recording your video:

For information on where to check out video recording recording equipment, please refer to the section on "Equipment Resources."

iPad, iPod Touch, or iPhone

  • Gear up upward the iPad on the tripod or stand given to you lot with the kit (follow the instructions included with the kit).
  • Launch the Camera app and prepare the iPad to be able to come across the instructor or subject conspicuously.
  • Plug in the wireless microphone to the iPad, using the pocket-sized audio adapter included in the kit.
  • Make sure both parts of the wireless microphone are turned on and begin your recording.
  • When y'all are finished, hitting the "Stop" button on the iPad.
  • When finished, the file will automatically added to your "camera roll". That is where you volition access the file later on for trimming and sharing.

Other types of video camera

  • Use a tripod and frame your shot every bit all-time you can. Use an external microphone whenever possible! Utilise the plug-in power whenever possible every bit batteries will run out.
  • If your camera records to an SD card or similar media, make certain you have enough retention to record the length of video you need.
  • If your camera is tape-based, make sure you have enough bare tape to tape the length of video you need.
  • Depending on the model of the video camera, you may or may not be able to plug in an external microphone. Refer to the camera's operating transmission for clarification.
  • Once the recordings are complete, go along to the department on "digitizing" and "editing" your video clips.

Digitizing your video

For information on where to get assistance with digitizing your video, please see the section on support.

iPad, iPod Affect, or iPhone

Videos recorded on a any of these devices are already digitized but you lot may desire to motion them to a laptop or desktop computer to edit and shrink.  This can be washed via Google Drive.

Other types of video cameras

SD Bill of fare or "solid country" media

Some cameras that record to media cards allow you to access the files directly and view them in Quicktime Player or a similar media thespian software. If you find the video files but tin't play them, you need to import them using special software. Refer to the camera'south operating manual for more information, or jump alee to the section on "editing" in this certificate.

Quick Guide:
  1. Usually you lot can plug the camera into your computer and pull the video files off it similar an external drive.
  2. Use the accompanying USB cablevision to plug the camera into your computer.
  3. The calculator should recognize the disk.
  4. Re-create the files from the camera'southward disk to a local folder on your computer.
  5. Depending on the style of camera y'all have, you may need to pull the files onto your computer using your video editing software.
  6. Import your videos into your editing software and begin editing.

Tape-based cameras

If your camera records on a tape, y'all will need to become the video and audio from the tape into your calculator. If the camera records with MiniDV tapes, y'all tin can most likely digitize the video by hooking your camera up to your figurer with a firewire cable and digitizing it into whatever video editing software you choose to use. Refer to the camera's operating manual for further instructions on connecting the camera to your computer

Quick Guide:
  1. With MiniDV cameras you tin can digitize the video right from your photographic camera.
  2. Plug the camera into your computer with the appropriate USB or Firewire cable.
  3. Open your video editing software (iMovie on Mac, Windows Flick Maker on Windows).
  4. Find the "import from camera" office. This may be called something different but similar depending on your software.
  5. The software should recognize that your photographic camera is plugged in. If not, consult the software assist files.
  6. Your video clips should testify up in a library of some sort within your video editing software.
  7. Edit your video!

Editing your video

Be sure to choose your video segment(south) according to the specifications noted in your edTPA Handbook.

In the finish, y'all need carve up, individual video files that incorporate only the segments that you lot choose to take assessed by your supervisor. In social club to create these individual video segments, you need to employ video editing software of some kind to trim out the unwanted portions.

iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch on:

If you recorded your video using one of these devices, the original recording will be located in your "Photos" app.

  1. Open the video file you need to trim and watch it to identify the department you wish to extract from the recording.
  2. Above the main video display you lot'll see a "timeline" of your video file. Y'all tin can elevate your finger to navigate to different times in the video file if needed.
  3. To trim the video, identify and hold your finger on one of the arrows at either end of the timeline brandish until the border box turns yellow. Elevate the xanthous border to surround the section of the video you wish to extract. Once you've identified this, press on the "Trim" command in the upper right of your viewscreen. Select "Salve as New Prune" from the dialog box and once candy, your extracted video volition bear witness upwardly as a new video file in your Photos app.
  4. You can upload the new extracted video prune to Google Drive from your device, or move the file to a computer first if you wish.

For video tutorials on how to consummate these tasks, visit our Vimeo Album.

On a Mac figurer:

Editing with Quicktime for Mac:

  1. If yous take a Mac computer, you lot already have Quicktime installed, and you can use information technology to trim and / or compress your video file.
  2. Open the file with Quicktime Player (version 10 or later on)
  3. Go to the "Edit" carte and select "Trim"
  4. A timeline viewer will open up at the lesser of the video player
  5. Elevate the yellow edge box to environment only the office of the video you lot wish to extract
  6. Click on the "Trim" button on the right of the timeline viewer
  7. The video volition immediately trim in the histrion, but you need to save information technology before doing anything further. Save the file under a new name.
  8. If the file is less than 100Mb you tin can upload this to Tk20. If information technology is not, encounter the "pinch" guidelines beneath to compress your video file.
  9. Video tutorial Editing with Quicktime for Mac.

On a Windows machine:

Mpeg Streamclip for WIN (fairly easy):

  1. Windows machines don't come with a video editing tool pre-installed, but this software is gratuitous and adequately easy to use.
  2. Visit http://world wide web.squared5.com/ and download "MPEG Streamclip one.2 for Windows".
  3. Install & open the software.
  4. Open the video file to be trimmed.
  5. Prepare an "In signal" and an "out point" at the showtime & cease of the department to exist extracted.
    • Edit > Select In (or Out) -or- striking the "I" and "O" keys for in and out.
  6. Salve the extracted file past selecting "File > Consign to Mpeg 4".
    • leave the pinch at "H.264",
    • set the quality slider to 85%,
    • limit data rate to 900 kbps
    • prepare the frame size to 640 ten 360 (choose "other")
    • exit everything else at default settings
    • Click on "Brand Mp4" and fix a destination binder for the new file.
    • Make sure yous can find the file after. If your file is less than 100Mb, you can upload information technology to Tk20. If it is larger than 100Mb, use the compression guidelines beneath to reduce the file size.
  7. Video tutorial Mpeg Streamclip for WIN.

Other types of video cameras:

As discussed in the "Digitizing your Video" section above, some cameras will require you lot to DIGITIZE the video using your editing software.

With tape-based cameras, or cameras that record video files to an SD card (or like) that tin can't be directly copied onto your machine and edited, y'all need to claw up the camera to your estimator and pull the video onto your figurer using the video editing software of choice.

Using ane of the video editing software applications listed above, y'all volition digitize the video from your photographic camera.  Plug the camera into your figurer using the USB or FireWire connecting cablevision supplied with your video camera.  Post-obit the instructions included with the video editing software, digitize the video from your camera into your project.

Once the video has been digitized in this fashion, you can refer to the outline above for instructions on editing and sharing your video segments.

For assistance and support, please make an appointment with the support staff at the University Libraries SMART Commons: http://smart.umn.edu

Compressing Your Video

Okay, then y'all've recorded your video(s) for the EdTPA and you need to compress them to under 200 Megabytes in order to upload them into your application portfolio.

If your video file is not yet edited to the appropriate length requirement, delight refer to the "Editing Your Video" section above for data on completing your edits.

If your editing is complete but the video file is still larger than 100Mb, and then it needs to exist farther "compressed" in lodge to see that requirement.

Yous have two options available to go this done:

MediaHub (like shooting fish in a barrel)

  1. Log onto http://mediahub.umn.edu and log into the UMN system using your x500 hallmark. Upload your video using the onscreen interface. The organization will ask you "How exercise you want to convert your file?" When prompted, select the "iOS/Android/Mobile" option. Click the "Start Conversion" push and look for the "Success" screen to confirm your submission. When complete, you will receive an email from the MediaHub organization with a link to download your newly compressed file. Download the file to your computer, verify that it is smaller than 100Mb, and so upload it to your edTPA profile (Tk20?)

Handbrake (less like shooting fish in a barrel)

  1. This software is too free and available for either Windows or Mac os.
  2. Get to https://handbrake.fr/ and download the software for your operating organisation.
  3. Utilize the Handbrake software to compress a video file smaller than 100Mb
    (no tutorial bachelor on this at this time)