Often we instructional designers are given hours of video footage of recorded lectures or webinars, and it’s our job to edit them down into easily consumable, topic‐focused chunks of video. This can be challenging due simply to the sheer workload of reviewing hours of video, but it’s even harder whe...
My process for creating animated motion graphics is unconventional but it has distinct advantages over the industry standard method of using Adobe AfterEffects or CC Animate. Instead, I design a slide deck in Apple Keynote using slide transitions and object builds, export the timed presentation as a...
One of the most valuable tools for an instructional designer is a great screencasting app. Being able to record your desktop with voice narration frees us to share techniques on our computers in live motion video.
Many of us IDs have learned to depend on tools like Jing, Screenflow, Screenc...
In my first career, I was an AVID video editor and worked in Hollywood editing television shows for Paramount TV, MTV, E Entertainment, Lifetime, and others. A lot of the job of a video editor is to watch raw footage of people talking and doing things, cutting out the boring bits, leaving only the...
Amara, formerly Universal Subtitles (which I thought was a better name) is an open source tool to let your audience contribute subtitles to your videos, wiki‐style. You post your video to a service like YouTube or Vimeo, give Amara the URL, and it gives you a “wrapper” t...
UPDATE: The Popcorn Maker project has been discontinued and open sourced. Read the press release to learn more.
Mozilla Popcorn Maker is a free tool for triggering rich web content to pop up as a web video plays. You can import a YouTube video, then add your own annotations, links, quizze...
A faculty recently approached me asking how he could produce Khan Academy – style video lessons. He was looking for an Android tablet equivalent to ShowMe, the iPad app that lets you write freehand, record your voice, and post videos online similar...
How long is too long for a lecture? Teachers can commonly spend upwards of 45 minutes lecturing in class. This arbitrary time frame is something we’ve settled into thanks to the traditional lengths of classroom meeti...
