Today’s report is for those of you looking to duplicate your teaching efforts when it comes to programing, PC repair, cooking, or whatever else you have to share. No matter the need, there is a way to share your skills without standing up in front of a classroom at the local community college.

Thanks to changing technology in the video sector, we now have consistent methods for hosting video at little or no cost to us and therefore, offer everyone a chance to share their skills or ideas. Let’s say that you want to share your skills in the kitchen? To make this happen, all you really need is a camcorder, decent lighting and a clear speaking voice. Oh yes, knowing how to cook doesn’t hurt, either. No matter, the fact remains that this is very doable!

As you might imagine, this same line of thinking can work for other areas as well. Such as using screen capture software to give specifics on how to use Visual Basic, a beginner’s guide to installing hardware drivers, Photoshop techniques, the list is truly endless. Now whether or not there is a business model or not really depends what you would like to teach. Realistically though, it’s best to plan on such a project becoming great way to get your name out there, not so much as a revenue source.

Screen capturing and making other Flash video creation:

Camtasia Studio- Definitely my favorite software for creating PC related tutorials. With a little work, who’s to say that you couldn’t become the next Video Professor?

WINK- Keeping in mind that you are getting this completely free, WINK does do a good job with creating a Flash video of your desktop actions. Only thing to keep in mind is that this does not offer audio support.

Flash Video Studio- Converting video to Flash with Jake’s article is a snap. If you are using a true DV-style video camera to create a tutorial of sorts, this is a great way to transform it into a Flash movie if you so desire.

Uploading it to a server for free or darn close to it-

Some great places to upload video include: OurMedia, Google Video, Audioblog and YouTube. All of these services will work with your existing video format, so changing anything into Flash is not needed on your end.

My closing recommendations-

For most long term video hosting, I’d consider using Google Video. Not only does it circulate throughout Google’s Video archive for people to watch, your work also can be easily embedded into your own blog as well. Now YouTube can offer you then same thing if you are not into Google; as does Audioblog, which is highly reccommended for many other video and audio ideas as well. Always worth checking out for any video work.

As for turning your creative efforts into a video podcast, you could upload your work to Ourmedia, then use a combo of Blogger and FeedBurner to create a iTunes ready RSS feed. Take that feed, submit it to iTunes and from that point on, your uploaded work is considered a video podcast.

Perhaps instead, consider going with the Audioblog? It’s a lot easier and you will find a support system in place along with great tutorials as well.

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