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November 21, 2008
Use Screencasting In Your Next Lecture
Ron Fredericks writes: Screencasting is an easy way to document your activities on a computer. Its a digital recording of computer screen output, opten containing audio narration.
During a recent poll, I found very few people were aware of screencasting . Watch my online lecture on the subject to learn how to:
- Express your ideas as a screencast on the web,
- Embed them within documentation instead of screenshots mixed with tedious explanations, or
- Use them as visual aids to enhance your next public lecture, as I have done here.
| Introduction to Screencasting: Quicktime Video |
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During this 10 minute Quicktime video you will learn:
- How to use screencasting as a fast and clear communication tool,
- The value in working with your local Toastmasters club as a public lecture resource,
- How to use the free and open source screencasting tool called Camstudio.
Lecture secrets: Two examples of Camstudio screencasting are included in this video. One example of a screencast captured using a video camera of an LCD monitor is used in this video.
This online lecture is a recording of my prepared speech presented to the Blue Cube Toastmasters club from the advanced manual Communicating on Television
For those who live near or travel to Sunnyvale, CA - you’re welcome to visit our Toastmasters club with regular meetings held at the Boomerang Cafe:
http://bluecube.freetoasthost.com
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How to Display Math Symbols in WordPress
Ron Fredericks writes: Have you ever wanted to include math equations in your blog posts or lecture materials? Here is an easy and slick way to get the job done. Use Embedded Components new WordPress plugin called WordPress Math Publisher, or wpmathpub, for short.
As an example, when I embedded the wpmathpub [pmath size=xx] tag into my blog post — like this:
Code (ada)
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[pmath size=16](a^2+b^2)=a^2+2*a*b+b^2[/pmath]
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Where:
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[pmath size=12]~a[/pmath] is defined as a
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[pmath size=12]~b[/pmath] is defined as b
I get the following mathematical equation displayed in my blog post:
where:
is defined as a
is defined as b
You can learn more from the plugin’s wiki-like documentation on wordpress.org site itself from here:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wpmathpub/
You can post questions or comments on this plugin from here:
http://www.embeddedcomponents.com/blogs/2008/03/wpmathpubsupport/