Why video?

Text Based Learner

vs.

Visual Learner

Here is why

• YouTube is the second largest search engine
• Over 6 billion hours of video are watched each month
• That's almost an hour for every person on Earth

Look Great

• Clean the room you are recording in
• Control the noise in the room
• Light the room and you

Sound Great

• Blue Microphones Snowball USB Microphone (Brushed Aluminum) – $69.72 – Amazon.com
• Røde Podcaster – $229 – Amazon.com
• Apogee MiC Microphone – $199 – Apple.com

Main Steps

• Recording video from your screen
• Saving the file to your computer
• Uploading the file to Vimeo or YouTube
• Display video with your text documentation
• Profit

Screencasting software

OS X

• Quicktime Free
• ScreenFlow $99 http://wpmedia.pro/screenflow
• SnapzProX $69 http://wpmedia.pro/snapzprox

Screencasting software

OS X

• Screenflick $29 http://wpmedia.pro/screenflick
• Screeny $14 http://wpmedia.pro/screeny
• Screenr $19 / mo ☹ http://wpmedia.pro/screenr

Screencasting software

Windows

• Camtasia $99 http://wpmedia.pro/camtasia

Screenflow

• Record Screen & PIP of you
• Edit video after recording
• Add annotations to the video
• Save video to local computer
• Upload video to Vimeo or YouTube

Plugins

WPHelp - Free

http://wpmedia.pro/wphelp

Easy Contextual Help for WordPress - $12

http://wpmedia.pro/contextual

Hide your icons

Camouflage $6 http://wpmedia.pro/camouflage Hide all of your stuff on the desktop

Camouflage

Highlight your mouse cursor

mouseposé $5 http://wpmedia.pro/mousepose Hide all of your stuff on the desktop

Mousepose

Photo by @victorcab