In an April post , I made my case for narration in eLearning. As a learner, I love it (when done right). So as a developer, I like to create narrated courses. Many of us, for budgetary reasons, have to do our own in-house narration work. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing - I made the point in that earlier post that professional voiceover work can sound synthetic if you don’t get the right voice for your project. And I won’t even start griping about those robotic text-to-speech tools that are being foisted upon the eLearning development community (note my rant ...

... outrageously pricey world of eLearning development software, is practically free . Not to mention all the typical testing ... results” to “anecdotal evidence.” Wish me luck. Mac-using eLearning developers, give Silverback a look . And non-Mac-using eLearning developers, what the heck are you waiting for ? ... . Silverback uses the built-in camera found on most current Mac models to record video and audio of your user while simultaneously ... to sneak in my personal MacBook or iMac and do some eLearning usability testing on some of our customers ...

Here's what sounds like (pun intended) a pretty decent audio setup for voiceover narration in eLearning courses. Chris created his own little desktop studio sound booth using acoustic tiles glued to square pieces of foam. I'll have to think about getting a rig like Chris'; I bet he gets better sound than my little USB Plantronics headset mic. (photo source: http://www.equixotic.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/snowball.jpg) If you liked this article or any of the other articles on this site, click here to subscribe through your ...

Recently I’ve been pushing our organization to focus on nurturing more in-house eLearning development skill versus frequently relying on outside vendors who give us mundane eLearning at outrageous prices. “We can do far ... and turn of a few dials? Seriously? And if eLearning development is such a menial, low-grade task, why are we paying vendors high-grade dollars to do eLearning development for us? Someone please explain the logic here. With this kind ... developer who has to step in and put that content into a compelling eLearning product. Who, by the way, needs to be ...

Today, you can check out the second interview I've had with Brent over at Corporate ELearning Strategies and Development. The posting is GGG 4 Lrng - Gamers lower the Boom! it includes both an audio broadcast of the interview featuring a discussion with Brent, myself and Cammy Bean from Learning Visions ...it was a great discussion. And, as an additional bonus...Brent also features a little "rant" about the boomers...apparently he is not very happy with this particular ... a Bad Day : eLearning Technology ) Me, in terms of boomers, I can see his point but, I'm a little more live and ...

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