72 Tips for Using Media to Engage and Teach

Many organizations expect eLearning designers anddevelopers to be experts in multiple forms of media, including full-motionvideo, voiceovers, multiple audio effects, and animations that go far beyondflying bullet points and spinning logos.

But few of us have formal education and training invideography, narration, sound design, audio and video editing, and animationdesign and development. And few of us know what mix of hardware and softwarewill produce the required level of quality for the videos, audio, andanimations we produce. It’s no wonder so many of us either choose to outsource ourmultimedia learning elements, or throw up our hands and say, “Text, images, andthe occasional sound clip are good enough!”

Don’t despair! With today’s hardware and software,capturing and producing professional-quality multimedia for learning is easierthan ever, and multimedia best practices are well established. For this eBook,we asked 17 learning professionals who have worked successfully with multimediafor learning to share their best tips. The 72 tips cover topics including:

• Planning,process, and instructional design for media
• Makingmedia accessible
• Recordinglive video
• Creatingwhiteboard and animated videos
• Editingand incorporating video
• Recordinglive audio
• Editingand incorporating audio
• Podcasting