Wednesday, 30 January 2008
News from Alison Brackenbury
I have the immense privilege of updating the website of the poet Alison Brackenbury. I love her poems - and a new one appears on her website every two months.
She's let me know that “6.25”, a poem from her forthcoming book “Singing in the Dark”, will appear in The Guardian Review on Saturday 2 February (this Saturday). The first poem in the book, “Edward Thomas’ daughter” will be featured on Poetry Daily on Monday 18 February.Labels: Alison Brackenbury, poems, poet, poetry, websites
posted by Helen Whitehead 10:32 AM
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
