My actual video lesson plan, should you be curious:
I had to record two lessons. When I recorded the first, the Explain Everything introduction I discussed in a previous post, something went awry in my recording and the timing of the sound and video became misaligned: the sound seemed to be missing snippets while the video had recorded my whole presentation. GRRR.

Then, when I went to re-record, it occurred to me that I had inadvertently left my iPad at home. Since my colleagues do not all have Explain Everything on their iPads, I was unable to borrow someone else's iPad. Time being of the essence -- I needed to record that very day, for good and all -- I developed a new plan.

So here is the new plan.... I invented a lesson related to what my students had been working on in class that day. I will film myself showing students (1) how to go to a Library of Congress print collection (WWI propaganda posters), browse, select, and download an image, and (2) how to edit the heading of our class wiki (as opposed to making comments on it, which they are familiar with) so that they can upload the image they chose before commenting on it.

Obviously a 1-2 minute film will only feature part of that conversation, so I will have to edit. As I recorded 50+ grammar videos this February, I'm not worried about doing so. I also plan to use text, opening and closing frames, transitions, and music. While the videos I recorded this winter only used the text-over and opening/closing frame capacities of iMovie, I'm not worried about managing the other parts of the film. Now that I use it regularly, I find iMovie pretty intuitive.

I'm not excited about seeing myself on film, though. Because I will be moving around and because of where the computer will have to be positioned to film (not on a podium, since I'll need to podium to hold the computer I'll be projecting from), I will be featured in less controlled ways that in the grammar videos I recorded. *sigh*

OK...to the studio!