Michelle Schoen
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Michelle Schoen
5 Posts to Improve Your Screencasting Skills
Last year I started to hear interesting things about ‘Content Curation’ and decided to invest some of my time and effort into understanding what it was and how it could help our business. There are some very smart people on the Internet creating all kinds of amazing content that I know you can benefit from and I love […]
Continue readingVideo Scripts and Storyboards: Seven Ways to Motivate Your Learners
In both workplace and academic environments, people are often unmotivated because they are required to take video based training courses in which they have no interest. Luckily, in the online world most of the buyers for our video courses will have freely chosen to purchase our training and excited to dive in. But, with that […]
Continue readingBecome a Thought Leader: 2017 is the Year to Get What You Know onto Video
In the 20th century, to be considered at expert at something ,you were expected to publish books and articles. But over the last ten years there’s been a shift. More and more, the perceived expert is the person who gets his or her knowledge and opinion onto video. And whether you’re getting it out via […]
Continue readingThe NEW Camtasia 9: What You Need to Know
For all us Screencast junkies the wait is over. Techsmith just released a new Camtasia. After over four years with Camtasia 8 we get a new look, better functionality and some cool new animations. If you’d like to see what’s been changed, added and removed (boo hoo) you’ll want to read on and take a […]
Continue readingA Mini Guide to Video Captions in Camtasia and YouTube
Last month we had a lively discussion in our Facebook site about adding captions to a video course. Who would have thought there would be so much interest around this? I mean, video captions are nice and all but this discussion went on for days. So are some of the things we discussed… Why Add Captions […]
Continue readingNew to Video Training Development? A Successful Elearning Project Requires Good Planning.
To a novice even simple things seem complex. And when things appear complex, we can become frustrated or feel like we don’t have the skills to accomplish what it is we want to do. In a very simple sense a video training course is about creating an environment where a person goes from a point […]
Continue readingRock your Video Intros
How do you hook your learner? How do you get them to sit up and pay attention. How do you compete with so many other distractions like email, Google, iPhones and Ipads? In this excerpt from last week’s Screencast Video Coaching session, Michelle outlines four ideas for getting your viewer’s attention at the beginning of […]
Continue readingFive Cool Things I Discovered Helping My Son Create a Video Game Tutorial for YouTube
As a mom you hope that your kids might follow in your footsteps and have an interest in the work you do. I’ve often helped my kids put together projects using Camtasia Videos and PowerPoint and asked my son Joshua, who just turned 16, if he would have any interest in editing videos for me […]
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