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Video: PowerPoint Animation to Create a News Ticker

Short screencast on creating a PowerPoint Animation for a news ticker effect.

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Moving Spotlight: PowerPoint Tip for EMS Educators

Create a moving spotlight of a specific part of a PowerPoint slide by setting a transparent color and applying a motion path. This is the screencast that shows how to create the object with the transparent color to make the spotlight.

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Screencasting Tips for EMS Educators

Screencasting has many potential applications for emergency response educators and training officers to discuss new or updated protocols, proper use of scheduling and ePCR software, or how to interact with other web-based content. Since most free screencasting tools, Screenr, limit the length of a screencast recording follow these tips for creating screencasts that are effective. […]

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Video: Create a Gameshow Spinner with PowerPoint

I used PowerPoint to animate a game show type spinner. This screencast explains/demonstrates my process. Another ScreenR user @onEnterFrame made a screencast that demonstrated a better and easier way to make the game show spinner. This screencast explains/demonstrates his process. What is intriguing for me is that a free web based tool, ScreenR, gave me […]

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Video: Aligning Objects in PowerPoint

PowerPoint tips to resize objects and images with drawing guides and aligning objects

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Video: Use PowerPoint and Articulate to Create Flash Animations #Screenr

I leverage PowerPoint with Articulate Presenter to make elearning courses for EMTs, Paramedics, and Firefighters. This screencast demonstrates how I use PowerPoint and Articulate Presenter to Create Flash Animations.

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Anatomy Study and Review: Google Labs Body Browser

Learn and review human anatomy with the interactive Google Labs Body Browser. Watch this video to learn some of the features.

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Video Tips

Create an RSS Feed for a Craigs List Search

I have found some amazing deals on new or like new bikes, bike trainers, kitchen equipment, and camping equipment on CraigsList. Regularly visiting and scrolling through the listings is a pain. So I create an RSS feed based on my search query and then view new posts in my RSS reader. View this screen cast […]

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Social Media Tips

Twitter Goodies: Applications, Widgets, and Buttons

If you are using Twitter this screencast shows how to add a Twitter “follow me” button to a page, post, widget, or sidebar. Twitter has a set of buttons available as a link from the Twitter Goodies page. View this screencast for a quick demonstration on how I added the Twitter button to a post […]

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Operations Social Media Tips

7 Ways for EMS Professionals to Use Screencasting

Screen casting could be used to demonstrate: 1. Use of punching into a computer time tracking clock 2. Process to transfer data from a cardiac monitor data card to an electronic PCR 3. Proper entry of patient history information 4. Annotation of patient injuries on a body diagram 5. Logging into and selecting a course […]