Archive for November, 2007
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Presentations: Stop Death by PowerPoint
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Free eLearning?
Looking at data from the eLearning Guild that I mentioned previously along with these slides, it has dawned on me that we can do some really great elearning things virtually at no cost.
In fact, free tools are a huge part of my day, everyday. My list includes Audacity, CamStudio, GIMP, Windows Live Writer w/WordPress, Delicious, [...]
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Via Tony Karrer’s elearningtech blog with the newly restructured access from the eLearning Guild comes a bushel full of great elearning resources.
It’s interesting to see how the free options compare, usually favorably, to the commercial ones.
Definitely worth a visit for a few downloads.
Link to eLearning Guild Research Reports : eLearning Technology
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Free Camtasia & SnagIt Licenses
Via Digital Inspiration Techsmith is giving away Camtasia and SnagIt licenses. If you do any screen captures and/or screen casts and don’t know about these tools you should DEFINITELY head over and check out these offers. These are top rate tools that are worth adding to your toolbox.
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I found this via a white paper on Blended Learning from the Epic web site. This could be helpful when you’re looking at which components of your learning plan should/could be online and which could be offline. Their three categories are: (1) Offline (face-to-face) (2) Offline (Individual work) and (3) Online.
I think the online [...]
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Stock Photo Images
Via Tony Karrer comes this big list of resources for photos and images. Unless I missed it that list didn’t include my number one source; Microsoft’s Clip Gallery Live
Here are my top three. What are your’s?
MS Office Online
Sxc.hu
Flickr
Stock Photo Image and Other Media Sources : eLearning Technology
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Bookr | Online Flickr books
http://www.pimpampum.net/bookr/
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VectorMagic might be a pretty handy tool to add to your bag of tricks. I know there have been times when I’ve wished I could enlarge a non-vector image but couldn’t without it becoming so pixelated it was no longer useful. If you don’t know why a vector image is different; [...]
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http://clive-shepherd.blogspot.com/2007/04/e-learning-and-science-of-instruction.html
Use of media
Use words and graphics rather than words alone (89% gain in learning).
Keep graphics and text that relate to each other near each other (68% gain).
Where possible, describe graphics using audio narration rather than text (80% gain). An exception here would be text (unfamiliar terms, instructions, etc.) which require time [...]
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Via Webworker daily I see that Microsoft now has a beta of SharedView. My 1st question is how is this better/different than NetMeeting? Other than aesthetics, etc? Yes, it looks nicer but it actually takes extra steps to get someone into Sharedview as compared to NetMeeting. Am I missing something?
If you don’t already use [...]
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