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The importance of professional development in the nonprofit sector

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by Leslie Beecher , Instructional Designer. Over the past four years, I have worked as an instructional designer in the for-profit education world and am excited to have transitioned into the nonprofit sector. She earned a master's degree in curriculum and instruction. ASU Lodestar Center. Like this article?

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Screencast of the Week: Foxy Tunes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Instructional. There is a link to the download and the written instructions. It looks like it was produced in Camtasia, but not sure because it looks like a Mac interface (not sure if the dual boot allows you to use the software in windows and record in MAC). Editing is done to the music and works well.

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Jon Udell Answers My Screencast Question!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

what I loosely call the documentary/instructional movie approach. That of course, led to readers posting comments and more insights and even connected me with Avinash Kaushik who I interviewed in Ready/Talk and recorded it - using the recording for note taking as the wmv file is not standard and could not be successfully edited in Camtasia.

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Learning Center at OurMedia

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I would love to see more instructional videos as well. However, I can only get as far as the free evaluation copy of captivate or camtasia allows. The Learning Center has great potential - it looks like it is just getting underway -- but looks like they have identified some expert people in each of the topics.

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Learning Journal: Experimenting With Adding Music to Web Videos

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Why add KB or MB to the file size when my content instructional. Since I'm mostly creating instructional video, I have to ask myself - how much does this enhance the learning or ability to retain? On page 108 of Jay Dedman 's and Joshua Paul 's book, VideoBlogging , I found instructions on how to edit with QT Pro.

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Technorati Tag Bookmarklet: The Screencast

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The timing errors make it more of a comedy than an instructional video, but you have to start somewhere. Next I'm going to try the free trial of Camtasia (Udell uses that one) and go back to fooling with Camstudio (the free open source tool). I hope you get a good laugh. Here's the script.

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The Jing Project: Embed Screencasts Into Conversation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And, I have to prepare some instruction in a completely different context, get organized to visit Sharing Foundation projects, pack T-shirts, AND finish the massives amount of work before I go. TechSmith is the maker of my favorite apps, Camtasia and SnagIt. Click to play. That in and of itsef is a little mind blowing.

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