Monday, 3 November 2008
Top 10 etools for learning professionals
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 mine are also chosen by others, but also that I have one or two that I've discovered for myself...Labels: e-learning tools, learning technologies, social bookmarking, tools
posted by Helen Whitehead 10:05 AM
Wednesday, 16 April 2008
eXe - for creating elearning NOTan .exe. file!
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 Package, SCORM 1.2, or IMS Common Cartridge formats or as simple self-contained web pages. Obviously an alternative to CouseLab which I looked at last week.
I'm testing out both to compare, and will report back in due course (though don't hold your breath as I'm pretty busy and will have to spread this research over some time!)Labels: e-learning, e-learning tools, elearning, elearning tools, eXe, learning technologies, tools
posted by Helen Whitehead 5:38 PM
Sunday, 13 April 2008
E-learning tools
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 a blog feed by email, rather than via RSS. It works by converting the RSS feed into email.
Polldaddy Polldaddy is another very useful and functional free tool to create polls and surveys. As usual, there is a subscription level with more useful features.
PointeCast Publisher
PointeCast Publisher is a PowerPoint® plug-in that automatically converts your PowerPoint 2000, XP/2002, and 2003 presentations into a highly compressed Internet-ready presentation in the Macromedia Flash™ format.
Pinnacle Studio Pinnacle Studio: This is an inexpensive (not free) video editor.
Validator Validator - The World Wide Web Consortium offers this free validation tool which enables you to test easily whether a web page, or blog post etc., is valid HTML or XHTML.Labels: e-learning tools, elearning, online web resources
posted by Helen Whitehead 1:10 PM
Sunday, 20 January 2008
H2O playlists
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 new way of thinking about education online.
I think it likes to be a more academic version of del.icio.us. It doesn't seem to have changed a lot since 2005 according to the blog posts which reference it, and its page on Wikipedia is a bit of an orphan.
Alexandra Samuel said in July, 2005 "Where H20 comes in handy is if you’re actually trying to turn your playlist into something…prototypically, a syllabus or some sort of guide. For example I could see H20 being a nice way of organizing and annotating my list of RSS resources . Or if I were going to teach my Internet & Politics course again, I might use it to structure the online readings."Labels: e-learning tools, social software, Web 2.0
posted by Helen Whitehead 7:50 PM
Friday, 16 November 2007
Do you use Salmon's 5-stage model or E-tivities framework?
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 used successfully to support learning in a variety of contexts, courses, disciplines, types and levels of education from schools to Masters to continuing professional development.
References
I am doing some research to find out how they have been applied in learning and teaching across the world in the last ten years. We know that teachers have used them in a variety of different ways, adapting and developing the models to suit their own purposes. As part of the background to a new book, we would like to find out about the models in practice. The general results of this research will be made available to all practitioners.
If you have any good examples of using the 5-stage model or e-tivities,
please would you take my survey?
http://www2.le.ac.uk/.../smeltsurvey
E-moderating: The Key to Teaching and Learning Online
Gilly Salmon, (2004) Routledge Falmer
ISBN: 0415335442
lifelong learning, m-learning, mobile learning, online courses, online learning, online tutoring, technology, universities, wiki-tivities, wikitivities
E-tivities: The Key to Active Online Learning
Gilly Salmon, (2002) Routledge Falmer,
ISBN: 0749431105Labels: collaborative working, e-facilitation, e-learning, e-learning tools, e-moderating, education, elearning, learning and teaching, learning design, learning technologies
posted by Helen Whitehead 12:48 PM
Monday, 12 November 2007
Links for week commencing 12th November
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.
- Content generator
- Multiple Choice quiz generator
- Match-up quiz generator
- Penalty Shootout generator
- Walk the Plank generator
- Interactive diagram generator
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.Labels: e-learning tools, elearning tools, games, learning games, links, websites
posted by Helen Whitehead 9:27 AM
