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Screencast and Share Your Favorite E-Learning Challenge Examples #276

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5 years ago

Screencast Your E-Learning Portfolios #276: Challenge | Recap

A few years ago, Mashable posted this really great article about freelancers parlaying their screencasts into a marketing tool

While many of you have figured out the blogging and social media angles, screencasting is a skill a lot of course designers aren't quite comfortable with yet. But looking at screencasting sites like LinkedIn Learning and Khan Academy, you know this is becoming an essential skill for everyone in our industry.

Challenge of the Week

This week, your challenge is to screencast an e-learning project or challenge demo you designed.

You can record a how-to tutorial to demonstrate a technical process or screencast a more general overview of an existing project you’ve built. The goal is for you to help the e-learning community know more about you and the projects you build.

Suggested Topics

Whether you’re just getting started in e-learning or you’ve been developing for years, you have something valuable to share. Here are a few topic ideas to get you started:

  • How I built this interaction

  • Lessons learned from building my first course

  • Production tips

  • Here are my three favorite projects

Share Your E-Learning Work

  • Comments: Use the comments section below to share a link to your published example and blog post.

  • Forums: Start  your own thread and share a link to your published example..

  • Personal blog:  If you have a blog, please consider writing about your challenges. We’ll link back to your posts so the great work you’re sharing gets even more exposure.

  • Social Media: If you share your demos on Twitter or LinkedIn, try using #ELHChallenge so your tweeps can track your e-learning coolness.

Last Week’s Challenge:

Before you screencast your portfolio, take a peek at the educational animations your fellow community members shared over the past week:

Educational Animations in E-Learning #275: Challenge | Recap

Wishing you a great week, E-Learning Heroes!

New to the E-Learning Challenges?

The weekly e-learning challenges are ongoing opportunities to learn, share, and build your e-learning portfolios. You can jump into any or all of the previous challenges anytime you want. I’ll update the recap posts to include your demos.

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  • Awesome challenge indeed! I would recommend having a separate one where we do a reaction video to someone else's eLearning? Here's a screencast I did on how I built one of the infographic challenges https://youtu.be/ZBq7AH8InnQ
    • MarkW's avatar
      MarkW
      Community Member
      Nice! The nerd in me really enjoys watching someone else's whole development process, especially when it takes 15 minutes rather than 4 hours ;)
    • SunetSullivan-7's avatar
      SunetSullivan-7
      Community Member
      Great approach Alexander, the intro you did with a webcam is great and the time lapse effect is awesome.
  • This is an interesting challenge! Going to take my time on this one. Looking forward to seeing what everyone comes up with. Will pop back Mon/Tues next week. Have a great weekend all.

    ~UPDATE~

    Well, this challenge combines two of my least favourite things (appearing on camera and narration), but it was a good opportunity to play around with the new Jump To Time trigger, Camtasia and SnagIt, while unpacking the discoveries I made in last week's challenge.

    GIF US A CLUE
    https://bit.ly/ELHC276
    • VeronicaBudnika's avatar
      VeronicaBudnika
      Super Hero
      That is spectacular Jonathan! What a great way to use the new trigger, and a very clear tutorial, thank you!
    • DavidAnderson's avatar
      DavidAnderson
      Staff
      Looking forward to seeing what you come up with, Jonathan. Enjoy your weekend .