User blog comment:Taldin/Teaching By Talking -- Best Practices?/@comment-28947388-20160829155722

This might seem like an odd suggestion, but you might want to consider watching/trying to follow along with some yoga instructional videos for inspiration. Though it's not technical, it's still guiding people through something they don't know how to do, and often have to strike the balance between showing and telling. If you're already a technical person, it can be hard to understand frustrations arising when a layman tries to follow your videos, but assuming you don't already regularly do yoga, it can put you in a good "beginner's mindset" to evaluate what makes an instructional video helpful or frustrating.

One of my biggest irritations is when a video doesn't leave sufficient time for the user to keep up with what's happening, and that's definitely something you can see in tech and yoga videos. Also, I HIGHLY recommend shooting the video and then recording the voice over it. It's good to shoot the video with the voice moments in mind (I should pause here to explain something), but trying to talk and do at the same time often results in a more stammering, lower quality video.

Hope that helps!