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Entries from November 2007
November 27, 2007
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, [...]
November 27, 2007
eLearning Guild Research Reports : eLearning Technology
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
November 23, 2007
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.
November 23, 2007
Epic – blended learning and knowledge solutions
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 [...]
November 21, 2007
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
November 12, 2007
VectorMagic | Web-based image tool
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; [...]
November 11, 2007
Clive on Learning: e-Learning and the Science of Instruction
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 [...]
November 2, 2007
Sharedview: New take on NetMeeting?
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 [...]
