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Blackboard Video Tutorials


I've started working on my own BlackBoard screen videos today, but I noticed that Atomic Learning has 7 free videos available plus a full set of 93 more if you subscribe to their service, which costs $79.99 a year for an individual. I had a subscription for a year, but I didn't use it enough to renew. They currently have more than 20,000 training videos for a wide range of software applications and they are always adding new stuff. In general, their videos are good and cover the important stuff you need to know. I have found the quality of their audio to be a little lacking, however. It sounds like they overcompress everything to keep their files small.

The screen tutorials on Lynda.com are very high quality, but they primarily cater to users of professional applications like Photoshop, Final Cut Pro, and Director, although they do cover MS Office and the Mac iLife applications. A one year subscription to lynda.com is $250, so you pay a little more for the higher quality. Lynda.com's tutorials are also available on CD/DVD starting at $49.95.

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