{"id":1265,"date":"2019-10-02T14:23:09","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T14:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/lli\/?p=1265"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:27:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:27:43","slug":"green-screen-technology-in-the-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/lli\/2019\/10\/02\/green-screen-technology-in-the-classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Green screen technology in the Classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1269 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/lli\/files\/2019\/10\/Green-screen-example-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Two students wearing lab coats stand in a lab, with a student pointing a plastic green gun at them.\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/lli\/files\/2019\/10\/Green-screen-example-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/lli\/files\/2019\/10\/Green-screen-example-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/lli\/files\/2019\/10\/Green-screen-example-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/lli\/files\/2019\/10\/Green-screen-example.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The technology is now surprisingly easy to use (see below), but WHY would you want to place yourself or students in front of a different background?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Purely for the fun of it?<\/li>\n<li>Help students visualise themselves in a specific environment related to their discipline? Perhaps placing a medical student within a ward round setting and ask them to consider what challenges they may face, and what strengths they bring. Or ask students to submit a poster of them working in a laboratory, annotated with health and safety guidance.<\/li>\n<li>To help the lecturer explain a complex environment? For example, superimposing a video of the lecturer (or student) explaining rock formations in geology.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are many possibilities, and the iMovie software on an iPad or iPhone is incredibly easy to use. We used the green-screen as a way of engaging with students as part of Welcome Week, on our stall in the Marquee (see photo above). The protocol we used is available here: <a href=\"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/lli\/files\/2019\/10\/Green-screen-protocol.pdf\">Green-screen protocol<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Plenty of video tutorials are available to guide you through the steps in more detail, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8lR0GEV5T14&amp;t=8s\">this video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, you don&#8217;t actually need a green screen to do this &#8211; will also work with many solid colour backgrounds.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Happy editing!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The technology is now surprisingly easy to use (see below), but WHY would you want to place yourself or students in front of a different background? Purely for the fun of it? Help students visualise themselves in a specific environment related to their discipline? Perhaps placing a medical student within a ward round setting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":267,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/lli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/lli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/lli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/lli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/lli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1265"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/lli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1272,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/lli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265\/revisions\/1272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/lli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/lli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/lli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}