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Quick Tips for Improving Screencasts

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I am so thrilled that Michele Martin has started screencasting because I'm sure I'll learn something. This tip caught my eye: Use fixed width to capture and auto pan Ideally, for most situations, when creating a screencast it is best to use a fixed region (640 wide by 480 high) and set the screen recording to autopan. Very sparingly.

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My Slides from the Screencasting Session and Please Vote.

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These are my powerpoint slides from the Screencasting Session at NTC. My favorite quote about the session was from Jason Zannon at Democracy in Action: Beth Kanter delivers herself of a tour de force on screencasting. I've heard that there will be more screencasting or at least one as this blogger notes. no more than 3.5

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Screencast: Call for Blog Actors!

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I'm researching for a screencast that I will shoot over the next few weeks on the topic of widgets that can be used for your blog to enable conversation or support nonprofit programs. I'm particulary interested in typepad widgets, but blogger, wordpress, and others are okay.

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Another Cambodian Video Blogger. Yeah!

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Click To Play Earlier today I posted about discovering some new photo blogs, podcasts, and videos from Cambodian Bloggers. So, I made a quick screencast with jing project to illustrate the steps. Any other video bloggers want to offer some advice? Is this what a vacation resort looks like? Why did you capture this?

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The Jing Project: Embed Screencasts Into Conversation

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The very calm Preetamrai , the Southeast Asian Editor for Global Voices who is also attending and leading a workshop at the Cambodia Bloggers Summit told me about his very cool new app from Techsmith, JingProject. It was very liberating for me to create a screencast like this -- no storyboard, script, no retakes. Yet to be created).

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America's Giving Challenge Days: Bloggers Campaign!

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I can't do this alone and that's why I'm asking my blogger friends to join me and in helping to raise money to help the many children who are touched by the Sharing Foundation's programs. Donate $10 or more to the Sharing Foundation through Global Giving Fundraiser set up by Blogger Michele Martin of the Bamboo project! Sign up here.

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The Top (insert type) Bloggers Lists

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I am waiting for a couple of videos to be available on YouTube so I can play with the remixer on TestTube and finish the Cambodia Video Blogging Workshop materials and screencast. Seems like the "top bloggers lists" or "the best of XYZ blogs" lists are circulating.

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