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Best Practices for Voice-Over

CourseArc

Studio microphone and pop shield on mic stand. If you are designing and developing eLearning, you are most likely going to need voice-over work. As psychologist Richard Mayer points out in his book, Multimedia Learning , combining narration with visuals will help to increase learning and long-term retention of content.

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Here’s a Simple Fix When the Microphone Audio is Too Low

Rapid eLearning

If you find that you’re microphone audio levels are too low, here are some tips that may help. On it I have a Blue Yeti microphone. I also like that the microphone has its own gain controls which resolves the issue I have below. Where’s the Microphone Boost? I record a lot of demos and webinars.

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Holiday Gift Guide for Instructional Designers and E-Learning Developers (2021)

Ashley Chiasson

It’s been a few years since I came out with a holiday gift guide, but if you have Instructional Designers, E-Learning Developers, or anyone else who might enjoy these bits in your life – I’ve got you covered! Tech Gifts. I had heard that the peel and stick ones were a bit of a pain and didn’t want to deal with that.

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My Favorite Microphones for Recording Audio Narration

Rapid eLearning

While I’ve covered audio recording tips and tricks in the past, one of the most frequent questions I’m still asked is about microphones. Microphone Recommendations. There are a lot of good microphones out there and they’re not that expensive. I’d plan on spending from $100-$200 on a microphone.

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ID and eLearning Links 8/25/20

Experiencing eLearning

This also has an audio mixer so you can adjust the volume between a shared video and your own microphone (or other inputs). It’s focused on instructional designers and elearning developers, rather than being a general freelancer site like UpWork. Web Captioner Free real-time captions in a browser based tool. Freelancing.

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Rapid eLearning Through Software Simulations And Screencasts

Upside Learning

It captures the mouse movements, clicks and on screen changes along with any narration audio which can be recorded through attached microphone lively and in sync with the capturing screen. Annotations, instructions etc are automatically generated based on the user’s action while in recording.

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eLearning Pet Peeves

Association eLearning

It can be impossible to understand or annoying sounding if there were problems with the microphone. Then see to it that it’s recorded with a good standalone microphone, not the microphone that’s built into a laptop. It can hurt someone’s ears if it’s too loud. They’re built for basic functionality, not quality.