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Just Enough Instructional Design to Make Great Training Videos
An effectively designed eLearning course or training module can make a world of difference in someone’s personal or professional life. People will pay to watch your video training because they hope they will learn something new that can perhaps bring them additional income, help them enjoy their hobby, change their habits, get ahead at work […]
Continue readingFive Steps to Create Your First Online Video Training Course
The world today is a very visual one. People have always loved watching videos, with an estimate of around 5 hours a day spent every day(by an adult!) – just watching videos. People who have been creating online courses for years have picked up on this trend and have begun creating much more video based courses. The […]
Continue readingConverting Existing Training Courses to Video? Ask Yourself These Three Questions
Many video training courses start as classroom content that needs to be converted and put online. You have a bunch of PowerPoint slides that you want to turn into a Video based course. Typically, when you start to create a online course you will start from content that already exists in PowerPoint and often that content dictates how the course is […]
Continue readingNew Video Layouts Using PowerPoint SmartArt
One of the best things about creating video is how much fun you can have with design. If you are an artist wannabe, like me, you get the chance to be really creative without making a mess or spending any money on supplies. And I’m always looking for shortcuts make slides faster without losing creativity. […]
Continue readingQuick Guide to Video Training Summaries
Although most good training designers follow a basic formula for creating their video course, one of the things I see most often left out of otherwise well structured courses is the Summary/Transition slide. In my last blogpost on Attention Grabbing Openers, I went over some of the best ways to get your viewer’s attention when you start off your […]
Continue readingQuick Tip for Camtasia/PowerPoint Newbies
Sometimes in our quest to have cool content and the latest techniques we forget that probably 75% of our blog visitors are brand new to screencasting and may have never made their first video. So, in last week’s Screencast Video Coaching Webinar we had a very simple question from one of our members: Got any […]
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Modifying PowerPoint Templates
So, you’ve probably see LOTS of PowerPoint templates being offered out there from the Warrior Forum, JVZoo, and others. All of the sales pages for these products promise you can “Easily create professional videos with NO skills or work!” Well…yes, you can create videos with them. But how good those end up being is a […]
Continue readingHow to Manage Your Video Projects Like a PMP
Right now you are trying to figure out what a PMP is, aren’t you? PMP stands for Project Management Professional and it is the certification that is most widely recognized by corporate America as someone who is serious about the profession of Project Manager. When I worked at IBM, they wanted all their Project Managers […]
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