Keynote. Everything I Know About Presentations, I Learned in Theatre School. An Unlikely Education I’ve been meaning to write this post for a while, and was inspired to get it done by Merlin Mann’s recent piece about improving his use of PowerPoint. I do a lot of presentations. Each time I give a talk, I try to improve on something. I have a good base on which to build thanks to an unlikely education. Despite my career in technology, I have a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and Theatre. I learned a lot of good public speaking practices from theatre school. Content – What You Say Respect the Narrative Arc. It’s hardly a stroke of comic genius, but it can change the tone for a few minutes, which never hurts. Technique – How You Say It Go to a speech coach. In short, make your presentations a little more like a play or a film. Perian - The swiss-army knife of QuickTime® components.
Jing Project: Visual conversation starts here. Mac or Windows. Screen Recorder Snagit's screen recorder lets you quickly record yourself working through steps. Or grab individual frames out of the recorded video. Save your video file as an mp4 or animated GIF. Record Audio Include audio in your videos from either a microphone or your computer's system audio. Record Camera Record your screen or camera — or record them both at the same time with picture-in-picture to add a personal touch. Cloud Library Find, open, and edit captures fluidly as you move between computers (Windows or Mac), when they are synced via the cloud provider of your choice. Animated GIFs Turn any short recording (.mp4) into an animated GIF, and quickly add it to a website, document, or chat. Trim Video Clips Remove any unwanted sections from your screen recordings. Create Video from Images Talk and draw over a series of screenshots to create a quick “how-to” video or GIF.
All-in-One Capture Capture your entire desktop, a region, a window, or a scrolling screen. Panoramic Scrolling Capture. Newsletter: 35.04 10 Guidelines for Effective Brainstorming by Randah Taher.