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How I learned to stop yawning and love the Zoom Room

Candid

I can hide a yawn by turning off my camera, but that is the very thing I want to avoid. After two years of teaching online in a variety of formats and structures, one thing that I’ve realized is that when the camera is off, people may be long gone—or at least disengaged. . That means getting out from behind your slides more.

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Guest Post: Maintaining a connection with pandemic-inactive volunteers

Twenty Hats

This addition is a slide show of photographs that the volunteers email to me. My favorite addition was a film clip I used as the finale for the first slide show — a 70ish volunteer tap dancing! For both shows, I used PowerPoint to create the slides and captions. Each presentation was about 8 minutes long.

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Kentucky Nonprofit Workshop on Web 2.0: Slides, Reflections, and Notes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That's a video blog post I did to demonstrate how a simple technique for creating effective videos using your cell phone or digital camera and placing it one the web, in this example, on YouTube. Many folks at the workshop wanted access to copies of the slides. They are here and you can download the pdf.

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Video Storytelling Made Easy with Adobe Spark

Tech Soup

Establish your goals up front so that each moment or slide ladders up to the goal. Clicking the big plus button on the web or in the iOS app will open a slide-based editor. Or, you can create your own by adding notes to slides, which will guide your creation. Each slide should represent just one point or thought.

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6 Tips for Nonprofit Professionals on Speaking Brilliantly with Your Slides

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Looking at your entire presentation from their perspective will not only encourage you to cut any excess information, but also help you to design more compelling slides. Eileen on energy levels: “You want to change up the sound of your voice and the visual variety of the slides, so people stay with you. Well, that depends.

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Some Thoughts About Remote Presentations: Mekong ICT Camp

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Using Google Hangout, you can switch between slides and camera, although when you are in slide mode, you can’t see the remote participants. The Google Hangout was projected on the screen. We used Google Hangout because they found it was more robust for video, audio, and screen sharing in that remote location.

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Digital Storytelling Challenge Community Choice Voting Opens May 4

Tech Soup

You spent time and talent on creating your video or picture slide show, now we invite you to show it off! The video with the most votes wins a $400 Best Buy gift certificate while the most popular slide show takes home a slick new Lytro camera. How It Works. Voting begins at 8:00 a.m.