My Top 10 Tools list is now online at Jane Hart’s Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies http://c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/helenwhitehead.html It’s fascinating reading the ‘final’ compiled version of the top 100 tools chosen by 223 learning professionals. Delicious social bookmarking comes top by a long way. It’s somewhat encouraging that several of
The project eXe has been brought to my attention. A New Zealand-based open source authoring application, it aims to assist teachers and academics in the publishing of web content without the need to become proficient in HTML or XML markup. Resources authored in eXe can be exported in IMS Content
CourseLab CourseLab, is a free authoring tool, with lots of great features – very usable and professional. It offers a WYSIWYG environment for creating interactive e-learning content. FeedBlitz enables you to provide blog posts in a newsletter format – it’s a way to give blog readers the option to read
An H2O Playlist is a shared list of readings and other content about a topic of intellectual interest. It’s a way to group and exchange useful links to information – online and offline.Developed at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, it claims to represent a
Do you use e-learning or learning technologies such as discussion forums etc. in teaching? Have you used or adapted Salmon’s 5-stage model or e-tivities framework in your teaching? Or have you used it at any time in the past few years? Gilly Salmon’s 5-stage model and e-tivities framework have been
Real-world e-learning software
I asked some practitioners what e-learning tools the staff in their institutions actually found useful. Here are some of their answers:
Course Genie
This is a product from Wimba (who have a site of good products) which allows staff to generate web pages from Word documents. It runs from within Microsoft Word as an add-on, so it’s possible for many of the formatting features of Word to be used. Various resources can be linked to the central web file created automatically by Word so learners can read materials, view presentations, search the internet or take quizzes as part of one learning “package”.
MonkeyJam
Freeware animation software: designed to let you capture images from a webcam, camcorder, or scanner and assemble them as separate frames of an animation. It’s also possible to import other images and sound files. Will export as an .avi file.
Content Generator.net
Flash-based e-Learning quizzes, games and applications (more use with school-level than FE or HE)
Free basic level of multiple-choice generator, with licenses for more complex games (e.g., football shootouts) from £25-300 depending on individual or institutional licence.
Toufee
Flash moviemaker. Non technical users can quickly create impressive multimedia items in Flash, including movies, banners, presentations, slideshows, and e-cards. Free Trial for 30 days then $5 per month.