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7 Technical Tips for Creating Video Lectures

eLearning Brothers

Someone might argue that text is just a necessary evil in a video lecture, and you should be paying more attention to visuals and the tone of your voice. As with voice recording and animations, presentational writing has its dos and don’ts. Avoid standard PowerPoint imagery and go the extra mile to add tailored visuals.

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The Ultimate Guide: What is Screencasting and Why Use it?

TechSmith Camtasia

Screencasts add a personal touch in ways that other methods (I’m looking at you PowerPoint decks and written proposals!) Recording a screencast allows the person on the other end to actually hear your voice, and provides important context to your words. simply cannot. We understand the power of screencasting.

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Course Authoring Tools for eLearning Developers and the masses

eLearning 24-7

Ability to use PowerPoint. SCORM compliance and/or AICC – there are tools out there who support neither – but that is not the norm and there are a few tools out there who also support PENS. FT Learning - Avatars with the ability to synch voice to them – i.e. they move their lips and it matches with your voice.

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New Authoring tool rankings #11 to #20

eLearning 24-7

AICC, SCORM and PENS support. PowerPoint can be uploaded. One of the first tools that enabled lip synching (your voice or whomever with the avatar/actor). Studio has always been known for the PowerPoint to Flash approach, but it also includes audio narration, TOC (yeah!) Social tags, RSS, gaming activities. Collaboration.

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Authoring Tool Market – What I am seeing

eLearning 24-7

Templates have been around for decades and often look like the ones you get with PowerPoint – which are lame. I remember pushing my pen around my paper in junior high creating a race game too. Scenario Builders with your own voice and text. But what it lacked was the ability for you to upload your own voice.

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What is Screencasting?

TechSmith Camtasia

Screencasts add a personal touch in ways that other methods (I’m looking at you PowerPoint decks and written proposals!) Recording a screencast allows the person on the other end to actually hear your voice, and provides important context to your words. simply cannot. Here at TechSmith , we understand the power of screencasting.

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DevLearn 2008 - Day 2 Recap

eLearning Weekly

When it comes to visual thinking, there are three types of people: Black pen (people), yellow pen (people), and red pen (people). Black pen people will jump up and run to the whiteboard to draw their thoughts (that’s me). Yellow pen people say, “I can’t draw&# - but they’ll eventually draw.