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The importance of professional development in the nonprofit sector

ASU Lodestar Center

I was able to develop dynamic, innovative, and knowledgeable courses using e-learning tools such as Articulate, Camtasia, Microsoft Office, and worked with graphic artist to develop custom interactive multimedia instruction (IMI). Looking for nonprofit professional development opportunities? The Nonprofit Management Institute is for you!

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What's a Watt Stopper? My First FLIP Camera Experiment

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The most skill to teach novice users I think is shooting tips and how to moment capture or only shoot footage that requires minimal editing. I am also fooling around with Camtasia Studio to see what the more advanced editing features are. Now back to the FLIP camera. Not sure if I did something to cause this or not. FLIP Camera.

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NTEN and SalesForce Screencast: Learnings About the Interview/Documentary Approach

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One thing I learned just two weeks ago from a phone call to the TechSmith tech support guy is that the.wmv files from Ready/Talk can be run through microsoft media encoder - so they could be pulled into Camtasia and edited. However, the idea of editing a long file in Camtasia does not sound appealing to me.).

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Learning Journal: Experimenting With Adding Music to Web Videos

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The next technique that I am exploring in my screencasting/videocasting skill set is the addition of music. Lack of technical skills or software tools in cutting, splicing, fading the audio and weaving it with the video track. Technical Skills and Tools. I've resisted adding music for three stupid reasons: 1.

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Quick Tips for Improving Screencasts

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That's easy at the beginning (when you don't know about the topic enough or have mastered the skill to have developed some biases about how it should be done). So, the technique I ended up with was to capture the window and use zoom/pan in editing process. Very sparingly.