I created this video for people who are just learning how to hand-bend electrical metallic tubing, or EMT.  It is a bit too basic for most of my electrical students, but this was my first attempt using a video editor so I kept it pretty simple.

I started with the photos, which were all taken by either me or my partner (for the ones where I needed to be in the picture).  I used Paint to manipulate a few of the pictures before uploading them to Windows Video Editor.  Once I inserted and arranged the pictures into the storyboard, I used the "Adventure" filter to change the overall lighting/color of the photos.  For some of the photos, I kept the black bar; for others, I removed them.  I added text to just a few of the slides--the ones where I wanted to highlight a perhaps unfamiliar word or demonstrate some math.  I used the "Quiet" text style.  I also used the "motion" feature for a handful of the pictures and added a few "3D effects" just for fun.  I used the "Road Trip" background music that came with the software.   I created my narration using Audacity and uploaded it to the video.  Then I spent considerable time synching the narration to the pictures.  I made it a point to write myself a word-for-word script for this project so that I could include precise closed captions with my video.

Overall, I really enjoyed this project and found both Windows Video Editor and Audacity to be extremely user-friendly.  And while Video Editor didn't have all of the features that I would have liked, that's the trade-off I suppose for something that is so intuitive to use.

For my very first Instructional Design class, I was tasked with using Adobe Captivate to create a presentation on a leader in the ID field.  I only had access to a trial version of Captivate, so this YouTube video leaves out a handful of slides and all of the bells and whistles that I worked so hard to incorporate into my presentation.  However, if you'd like to see the entire presentation, it is available here as a zip file.