VCCzar's Presidential Election Class

[vcczar]

I'll be conducting a presidential election class soon via this forum. The focus will be on 1856-present, although I will do some background. 

[Imperator Taco Cat]

Notifying people who said yes to forum in other thread: @matthewyoung123@Rodja@0ccultist@dkh64@jvikings1

[vcczar]

I got the first "lecture" planned out now. I just need to record it. I'll do that sometime after I get 12 commitments in this poll. Hopefully, I can record it on Tuesday. 

[vcczar]

I might record the first "lecture" today, but I won't post it until we get 12 people voting "yes"

[vcczar]

I did 4 takes of the first lecture. I hate my voice.The 5th take will hopefully be the last one, but I won't do that until I'm ready to release it. This first video is going to be something like 35 minutes and I want to reduce them to 10 minutes, so I gotta reorganize it.

[vcczar]

So I've record the first "lecture" at 16 minutes. It is 433 MBs and this forum seems to only allow videos that are 48 MB to be posted. As such, I'm trying to figure out a solution for handling this. Any advice would be great. My backup option is just typing everything out, but then this is just going to be a lot slower. 

[vcczar]

I've created videos for the 1788 and 1792 elections. I'm going to go through these pre-1856 elections kind of briefly. I'll go more in depth in 1856 and afterwards. 

The first video is about 15 minutes and the second video is about 10 minutes. I aim for 10 minutes, but I think most of these will probably end up being 15 minutes. Some of those after 1856 might be longer. 

[Bushwa777]

Are they on YouTube for us to look at?

[vcczar]

13 minutes ago, Bushwa777 said:

Are they on YouTube for us to look at?

Not yet. 

[vcczar]

I may re-record the videos I made yesterday. I keep thinking of things I should have said but didn’t. Both videos were made without using notes, which probably explains much of it. I’ve never liked using notes because I sound more robotic when I do use notes. I can’t think of the last time I’ve used notes when teaching. I’ll sometimes have a list of words just to remember topics I need to cover but that’s it. 

[0ccultist]

On 6/4/2023 at 2:13 AM, Imperator Taco Cat said:

Notifying people who said yes to forum in other thread: @matthewyoung123@Rodja@0ccultist@dkh64@jvikings1

I’d be happy to join in if possible 

[vcczar]

1 hour ago, 0ccultist said:

I’d be happy to join in if possible 

Respond on the poll

[DakotaHale]

On 6/6/2023 at 5:45 PM, vcczar said:

I've created videos for the 1788 and 1792 elections. I'm going to go through these pre-1856 elections kind of briefly. I'll go more in depth in 1856 and afterwards. 

The first video is about 15 minutes and the second video is about 10 minutes. I aim for 10 minutes, but I think most of these will probably end up being 15 minutes. Some of those after 1856 might be longer. 

Post YouTube under "unlisted" (meaning only people with the link can view; it won't show up on YouTube) and embed here. 

[Bushwa777]

When is post due and do we answer questions asked by others?