Introducing Students to MindManager: Dorko Demo

Well the Note Talkers contest has long passed and I can say I am absolutely loving my prizes! ResultsManager has been a lot of fun and I've talked to Kyle McFarlin a few times now and he has been very helpful in my adventures with ResultsManager. I hope to post about all of this soon!

In the meanwhile I thought I would share the video/screencast I made for that contest. I thought they were going to post all the screencasts but I have not seen this done yet so I figured what the heck...I'll post mine.

This Dorko Demo was designed to promote MindManager to students. My goal was to create a quick (under 10 minutes) presentation for students to present the features and capabilities of MindManager. I wanted to get students excited about MindManager and leave them with the feeling that MindManager can assist in their everyday tasks as a student. I tried to present as many examples in an effort to reveal that MindManager is great at several tasks like note taking, making To-Do-Lists and even serving as an active desktop. I also wanted to make apparent that MindManager is great for brainstorming papers as well as organizing all your class related information like handouts, images, and ebooks!

My original intent was to go back over the Dorko Demo and clean it up a bit. I then planned to make it as seamless as possible and distribute it to students at school or provide a place to download and watch it. MindManager is still very foreign to the student population and I felt a fun demo video of MindManager would get them talking at the very least. Unfortunately I have not had the time to edit it so it remains as a poorly executed presentation, but the concepts and intentions embedded within it are still valuable so I might as well share it!

This version of "Introducing Students to MindManager" is 12.3 MB and runs 8:47. It is choppy because of the file size and I had numerous problems trying to encode it properly with Camtasia Studio. I have a good copy that is much smoother and displays all the transitions correctly but its 177 MB and I figured no one would want to download that huge of a file. I have a 1000 GB transfer limit so I could probably handle it but decided to stick with the smaller file for the time being. I can provide a link to the larger file if you want to or even send it to you on a CD. The smaller file has its obvious faults but I think the ideas and concepts I am trying to share are still there and others may get some value from it.

Introducing Students to MindManager
Dorko Demo and Note Talkers Contest Winner

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