TechSmith Learn Con 2019

Monday, October 21

TechSmith Learn Con 2019 is a one-day conference designed to teach you how to easily produce outstanding video and images for your eLearning content. You’ll hear from some of our partners in the training field and our experts will show you how your projects can be enhanced and improved with market leading screen capture tools from TechSmith, including:

Camtasia: Simplified screen recorder and video editor that makes it easy to record and create professional-looking videos.
Snagit: Intuitive screen capture and screen recording with easy-to-use annotation and editing tools.
Other valuable tools from TechSmith’s product portfolio.

The event features presentations and learning experiences led by TechSmith's team of experts, and TechSmith users in the training community. Join your peers and discover tips and tricks that will take your skills as an eLearning professional to new heights.

What You’ll Learn:

Product Demonstrations and Tutorials
Our team will help you become more efficient with our tools and save time (and money) along the way. Join our experts as they dive into Snagit, Camtasia, and Video Review to show you some of our most used features and provide some pro-tips. To encourage interactivity, we’ll provide opportunities throughout the day for you to ask specific questions and ensure you get what you need out of this conference.

TechSmith Research—The Value of Visuals
New research from TechSmith shows that not only do people of all ages report that they want more visuals. They also learn faster, understand information better, and complete tasks more accurately when presented with visuals vs. plain text. Join us at Learn Con to learn more about TechSmith’s original research into just how valuable visuals are, in terms of time and dollars. We’ll discuss how visual and video content enhances comprehension of complex tasks and how our new understanding can help us improve our training methodologies.

Best Practices for Creating Visual Training Content
What’s the best way to get feedback from stakeholders? How do you ensure all your content looks the same—even across multiple creators? How do you extend the life of visual content and minimize the need for updates? Our team will answer all these questions and more as we share our best practices for creating visual training content.

Registration Info

Schedule

8:30a – 9:15a

Welcome to TechSmith Learn Con 2019!

An exciting beginning to an exciting day, TechSmith Leadership will welcome attendees and set the stage for the inaugural TechSmith Learn Con. TechSmith will share why we do what we do, the direction of our flagship products, Camtasia and Snagit, and how we see TechSmith continuing to help trainers solve problems in the learning space.

The team will kick off the day with what’s new from TechSmith, including a look at new product features, new offerings, and an exclusive look into what’s coming with Snagit 2020, prior to its release!

Speaker: TechSmith Leadership Team

9:15a – 10:00a

Opening Keynote

General Session: Design Inspiration Is All Around Us

In this comprehensive yet entertaining presentation, Karl will discuss how to plan and produce effective, data-driven visuals that break through the content glut. He will explain how to find stories in data, share video and visual do’s and don’ts, and offer techniques for thinking more creatively so your message can rise above the clutter.

Speaker: Karl Gude, Michigan State University

10:00a – 10:15a

Break

10:15a – 11:05a

Visuals Track

The Value of Visual Content and Simplified User Interface Graphics

It can be difficult to onboard users to new and complex interfaces and workflows. Research shows that images and video enhance understanding and retention of complex information and tasks and can even increase productivity, but software often changes quickly and requires regular updates and localization.

Nikky will share the science behind the value of visuals and introduce attendees to a new visual tool, Simplified User Interface (SUI) graphics. SUI graphics enable you to create powerful and useful images to help your users better understand your content, while extending its shelf life and often eliminating the need for localization. Snagit allows anyone to easily create these simplified graphics, by simply toggling a switch!

Speaker: Nikky McCollom, TechSmith

Video Track

7 Things You Need to Know About Camtasia to be Successful

Camtasia makes screen recording and video editing easy, but discovering a few tips and tricks can really help you stand out. Join Jason as he shares 7 features of Camtasia that can help you create effective and professional videos and screencasts. Learn some of the must-know features of Camtasia and how to apply them to their instructional videos ... everything from tips on improving audio to saving time through reusing projects.

Speaker: Jason Valade, TechSmith

11:10a – 11:30a

Visuals Track

Beyond the Humor—Learn How to Easily Create Instructional Gifs

Product Dives: Getting More Value Out of Snagit

Oftentimes a simple, short video can more clearly convey your message or process than text alone. Learn how and why you should be using gifs in your workflow, and the easy, step-by-step process of creating them yourself.

Speaker: Jason Valade, TechSmith

Video Track

Using Snagit to Create Videos from Images

Product Dives: Getting More Value Out of Snagit

In Snagit 2019, we introduced the extremely popular feature, combine images. In Snagit 2020 we take that one step further with the ability to create videos from images. In this session we’ll show you how to turn a series of images into a single microvideo, without the use of a video editor.

Speaker: Jason Valade, TechSmith

Video Track

Enhancing Content with Assets

Product Dives: Getting More Value Out of Camtasia

Learn how the new TechSmith Assets service can enhance your Camtasia videos with unlimited access to customizable templates and nearly one million royalty-free stock assets, including videos, images, stamps, music, and more. Creating more engaging content is now easier than ever!

Speaker: Daniel Wittenborn, Ph.D., Techsmith

12:00p – 1:00p

Lunch

1:00p – 2:30p

Visuals Track

Level Up Your Supplemental Training Content with Snagit

As a learning professional, you often have to provide materials to help people follow along or provide them with step-by-step instructions they can reference later. Snagit can be your secret weapon to get the job done.

Adding visuals to your materials will help your employees absorb information faster and retain the content. In this session, you will learn how to quickly and easily create great supplemental materials with Snagit such as job aides, PowerPoint decks, flipped meetings, and more.

Speaker: Jason Valade, TechSmith

Video Track

Video Workflows with Camtasia, Captivate, and Storyline

Modern eLearning development tools allow you to create advanced video-based interactions. There are numerous possibilities for leveraging video and authoring tools to create engaging content that maintains audience attention.

In this session, Josh will review creative ways of integrating Camtasia with your favorite authoring tools - Captivate and Storyline. He'll review detailed workflows for building interactive video, software simulations, and green screen captures.

Speaker: Josh Cavalier, Lodestone

2:30p – 2:45p

Break

2:45p – 3:05p

Visuals Track

Easily Add Brand Identity Throughout Your Training Content

Product Dives: Getting More Value Out of Snagit

Creating consistent visual elements throughout your training content by implementing and establishing shared style guides that align with your brand will do more than just add polish to your final product. Sure, your content is going to look really good, but it also provides visual cues that can guide trainees and provide a more personalized learning experience.

Learn more about why branding should be an important consideration when creating training content and HOW TO USE TechSmith tools to make implementing brand colors and other identifying elements as easy as one, two, THEMES!

Speaker: Sherri Powers, TechSmith

Video Track

Simple Video Interactivity with Camtasia

Product Dives: Getting More Value Out of Camtasia

Making videos with interactivity helps to engage your viewers and provide them with an enhanced experience to help keep them watching. In this session you’ll learn how to easily add clickable hotspots, tables of content and more!

Speaker: Jason Valade, TechSmith

3:10p – 3:30p

Visuals Track

Snagit Grab Text

Product Dives: Getting More Value Out of Snagit

Images with text are great for learning but repurposing that text can be a challenge. Learn how to use Snagit’s Grab Text tool to pull text from an image and use elsewhere with ease!

Speaker: Jason Valade, TechSmith

Video Track

Reviewing and Discussing Videos

Product Dives: Getting More Value Out of Camtasia

TechSmith Video Review® makes it super simple to share and discuss both video and image content. See how it works and learn tips and tricks for how this new service can shorten review cycles, flip a meeting, or easily discuss an idea with others.

Speaker: Daniel Wittenborn, Ph.D., TechSmith

3:35p – 4:35p

Closing Session

The Future of Video and Images in Training—Q&A Session with a Panel of Training Experts

To close out Learn Con, TechSmith has put together a panel of training experts with backgrounds in creating learning and development videos and visuals. During the panel they will be discussing:

How they’ve seen the adoption of images and videos change over time
Where they’ve seen visual content succeed
The future of video and images in learning and development
This session will include the questions YOU ask.

Speakers:
Moderator: Matt Pierce (Learning & Video Ambassador, TechSmith)
Josh Cavalier (Founder, Lodestone)
Bianca Woods (Senior Manager of Programming, eLearning Guild)
Danielle Wallace (Senior Learning Experience Designer, Beyond the Sky)

4:35p – 4:45p