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Teaching with Screencasts and Rapid Prototyping

TechSmith Camtasia

Part of where I struggled was writing up files for demos and examples each day for a lesson. Rather than writing out entire documents and refreshing the browser to see the effect, I start by prototyping in services like CodePen or jsFiddle. An example embed from CodePen: See the Pen LfiqI by Brian ( @bbennett ) on CodePen.

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9 Simple Hacks to Write Better Knowledge Base Articles

TechSmith Camtasia

We will walk you through nine tips that can get you through writing an informative, knowledge base article. To write an effective knowledge base article Here are five questions, which will help you develop excellent customer education content : What is the goal of the content? Write better knowledge base articles today.

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ScreencastCamper Profiles: Shannon Sellars and Erin Klein

TechSmith Camtasia

So if you want to co-lead a session on copyright and fair use with Shannon, or learn a thing or two about blogging from Erin, this post may be your perfect starting point. I use Snagit and Camtasia primarily. She also runs her own tech-savvy blog. Shannon Sellars. What tools do you use to screencast? Least favorite?

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How to Perform a Training Needs Analysis Remotely

The Training by Nelle Blog | Corporate Training and Consulting

A prime example would be: the ability to communicate effectively ; in other words, the ability to speak and write with clarity and conciseness. You can embed PDFs, videos, or pictures to provide more insight into your survey versus a multiple-choice form. You would find an ability statement written in a job description or job posting.

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What Makes a Good Online Course? 7 Real-World Strategies

TechSmith Camtasia

Embed graded quiz questions at key points within her videos. She also began hand-writing key points on her presentation slides (as opposed to just displaying text on the screen). Tracie used an inexpensive graphics tablet with a stylus, then recorded her screen with Camtasia, and the writing showed up on the video.

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PD with Pictures: Using Screencasting to Save your Sanity!

TechSmith Camtasia

They know how to teach kids to read, write, and think in many ways not always noticed by the casual bystander; however in many teachers’ cases, integrating tech tools is not quite in their comfort zone. Whip up some help sheets with Snagit or Snagit for Chrome and voila! A “quick-tip” sheet suddenly turns into a 3-page disaster.

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Tips for Adding Visuals to Your Social Media

TechSmith Camtasia

Our current video campaign is a tactic of our content strategy, with a goal of driving traffic to our blog. Each week, we use TechSmith Camtasia to re-purpose two upcoming blog posts, by summarizing them to re-create the article as a video. If they don’t click, but they view the video, we’re happy with that too.