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Destroy Distractions With These Easy Camera Tricks

eLearning Brothers

Leaving lots of people or things or lights or miscellaneous movement in the frame can help a movie the same way a magician uses her hands or props to distract her audience while doing a magic trick. It’s a big part of movie magic. Depth of field is the amount of space that stays in focus through your camera.

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Resolve to Engage Your Learners in 2012

The Learning Circuits

No one wants to watch a movie in which the director yells “Lights, Camera…Multiple Choice Question” We are more excited with movies directed with the words “Lights, Camera, Action.” I want us to make a conscious effort to force learners to do something.anything to get them mentally or even physically moving.

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9 Tips to Create Cost Effective Training Video

Kitaboo

Determining the kind of video that you want to make will help you decide the rest of the steps required to create an effective training video for your learners. The speaker must engage with the learners. They must also be good at voice modulations, because a monotonous speech could distract the learners from the training content.

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eLearning videos: The ultimate guide for successful video-based learning

TalentLMS

Get the content and format right, and videos are better at engaging learners and keeping them engaged for longer. Research shows that video training helps learners retain information for up to a month. It’s also easy to produce: all you need is an interviewee or a subject matter expert (SME) and a camera. Good to share.

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4 Tips for Improved Video in eLearning

eLearning Brothers

You can get your learners up close and personal with things that might not be practical in the real world. Just get a video camera and record the beetle so everyone can see a blown up image of that lil guy. Just get a video camera and record the beetle so everyone can see a blown up image of that lil guy.

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Resolve to Engage Your Learners in 2012

ATD Learning Technologies

No one wants to watch a movie in which the director yells "Lights, CameraMultiple Choice Question" We are more excited with movies directed with the words "Lights, Camera, Action.". Multiple choice questions don't reflect reality. Click here to read full version.

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Game-Based eLearning: Making GBL Effective Through Avatars And Immersive Stories

Adobe Captivate

Avatars In The Movies And Games. In the movie Avatar, directed by James Cameron, you may remember that the protagonist, Jake Sully, is excited to be in a new environment and with his new-found legs. This movie is so like what an ideal game should be, full of challenges and opportunities to learn new things. Let me explain.

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