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Camtasia has been my tool of choice for most of the instructional videos I create, including the first therapy dog video. I began assembling this video by adding the narration track, and then I added music tracks downloaded from Storyblocks. I wanted music that was upbeat but not silly, and I went with two different […]
My excitement grew as the filming date approached. Having worked on the video with Moose the previous summer, I knew that filming would be both challenging and fun. The dogs are all incredibly well behaved, but they’re still dogs, after all. On a warm August day, all three dogs, along with three human handlers, arrived […]
Since there’s a lot of unseen work behind even a short video, I wanted to take a chance here to tell the story behind one of my team’s newest learning objects, “Create and Collaborate at Newman Library,” which stars…therapy dogs. Partnership with Counseling Center I’ve been a huge fan of the work done by the […]
My experience after conferences and professional development workshops usually follows a similar pattern – at the conference, I’m really excited about all of the new ideas that I’ve encountered. I have grand plans of how I’m going to transform my teaching, my work, or hey, even my life, and everything seems possible. But sometime in […]
