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Prezi basics – Getting started

on Mar 5, 2014 in Archived Support, Courses, Guides, Prezi, SOC305 |

So, you thought about doing something different with your presentations and decided on using Prezi, well you are in the right place. I will guide you through some basic Prezi features that will make you look sharp come time to show off your work. The most attractive part of Prezi is the non-linear presentation format it presents to the viewers. No more do you need...

Aggregating your resources – Digital Storytelling Tutorial

on Feb 27, 2014 in Archived Support, Courses, Digital Story Telling, GER, Guides |

Now that you have all of your music, images, videos and narration it is time to put it all together! This is where the programs such as iMove, Windows Movie Maker, Camtasia, and WeVideo come into play. All of the various software listed above have the same general idea behind them. If you know how to use the time-line content area and basic editing tools from one...

Recording and Gathering resources – Digital Storytelling Tutorial

on Feb 27, 2014 in Archived Support, Courses, Digital Story Telling, GER, Guides |

Now that you have finished your narration it is time to sit down and record! When recording narration don’t ever stop recording just do another take if you don’t like how you said something or you messed up. Edits can be applied to the final recording to take out and put together what sounds best. Remember when recording take your time and speak as if...

The Script – Digital Storytelling Tutorial

on Feb 27, 2014 in Archived Support, Courses, Digital Story Telling, GER, Guides |

When you begin to create the script you can start by developing a narrative that you can play out in your head. This narrative should be concise enough to tell your friends and family and have them understand the story you are telling. When formulating this story look for places that really give insight into the story you are telling and try to make those sections...

Digital Storytelling Primer

on Feb 25, 2014 in Archived Support, Courses, Digital Story Telling, GER, Guides |

Hello, now that you sort of know what digital story telling is I am going to go into a little more in depth about how one creates a digital story telling project. As I emphasized before the story you tell is reliant upon the content you attach to it. Don’t worry about the digital aspect of it until you sit down and actually make the video. Since digital story...

Creating an animation and exporting it to a video in SketchUp

on Feb 20, 2014 in Archived Support, Courses, EGL276, Guides, SketchUp |

This tutorial was made from information based upon the SketchUp website. Animations are a series of rendered images that are displayed one after another tour of a model. To create an animation: Select Window > Scenes. The Scenes Manager displays. Type the name and a description of the scene in the ‘Name’ field. For example, type “Front...