Lesson: 8 - Take Photo, Audio & Video

Purpose: Students will learn to capture photo, shoot video and record audio by using laptop camera.

No. of. Classes

One class - One hour.

Materials Required

Desktop or Laptop computer.

Curriculum Content 9.2)Camera,
9.3)Video,
9.4)Audio.
Prior knowledge

Students should be aware of file format, search and storage.

Exercises

Exercise:1


1. How to capture photos and record video by using laptop camera?

Exercise:2


2. How to record audio by using laptop camera?

Exercise:3


3. How to shoot video by using laptop camera?

Solutions


  • Link to view the Solution Video for Exercise-1 (Solution).
  • Link to view the Solution Video for Exercise-2 (Solution).
  • Link to view the Solution Video for Exercise-3 (Solution).

    • Teacher's Instruction
    1. Explain in detail the solution to the Students.
    2. Emphasize the file formats of Audio, Video and Image.
    3. While teaching use the words "camera, audio & video", etc. They need to be familiar with those words.
    4. Show that there are different file formats for photos (bmp, png, jpg, gif etc.), different formats for audio files (wav, mp3, ogg, m2a etc.) and for video files (avi, mp4, mpg, etc.)
    5. Ask the children to think about why the laptop camera photos are not as good as the phone camera photos. Focus vs. no focus. Better lens, sensor etc.