For those using scripts during your live webinars or for on-demand presentations, this tip is guaranteed to improve your delivery: Make sure that you read your script out-loud! Why? Writing is for the eye, while your narration is for the ear. Good writing and punctuation does not always sound very natural. By reading your script […]
The Redundancy Effect and Your PowerPoint
We recently wrote a post on Richard Mayer’s ‘Ten Multimedia Design Principals‘ citing his book Multimedia Learning. I wanted to share another point from Mayer’s research that Cliff Atkinson drives home in his book Beyond Bullet Points called the Redundancy Effect. Mayer’s research shows that reading text displayed on the screen actually lowers retention. Mayer […]
Ten Multimedia Design Principals
sRichard Mayer is a professor in psychology at UC – Santa Barbara. Mayer is considered the authority on educational psychology, publishing over 18 books and 250 articles and chapters on the topic. Mayer and his colleagues conducted numerous experiments and studies into how we learn best through-out the 90’s. The result of their efforts was […]
Adobe Connect problems?
Having trouble with your Adobe Connect audio or connection? Here are instructions for testing your setup: https://helpx.adobe.com/adobe-connect/using/connection-test-connect-meeting.html If your problem is audio-related, we have found the simplest thing to do is dial the conference bridge number from your telephone. The VOIP service is not always reliable. Hope this helps.
Best webinar recording video format
TubeMogul is a service that enables you to upload your video once and distribute to the leading video sites. They then provide aggregated tracking statistics for your video. TubeMogul recommends the following encoding options if you want to widely distribute your video: File format: mp4 or mov Video codec: h.264 Bit-rate: 700 kb/s – 1500 […]