Best practices for screencasting

Here is an outline of my best practices and a screencast - not sure which you were looking for and was too lazy to ask!!

1. prepare your environment - turn off the stereo, open the programs you will need to show, close unneeded programs so as to minimize potential distractions
2. have a general outline of what you want to say and do, try it once so you have all required info at your fingertips
3. briefly explain any moves/mouseclicks you do if you are making a step-by-step instruction screencast

here is a screencast of "best practices"- after I did it I realized I must not play my music that loud as you can barely hear it in the background! So I guess I can keep my tunes on!

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