I’m always looking for ways to use flash without having to actually LEARN flash, so I was intrigued when I came across Instructional Spice an online service that provides customizable flash activities. Some are free, others only available for members who pay $49 a month. Cool that it’s a monthly thing so I might join for a month and see if it’s worthwhile. A flash activity – especially one I that can be tweaked and used in more than one course- is worth at LEAST $49 I’d say!
instructional spice June 5, 2008
free moodle hosting May 7, 2008
Just ran across a company, NineHub, who are offering free moodle hosting. I’m not sure what the catch is… and there’s always a catch, right?! but it might be worth looking into if you want a non-work moodle site to play with. http://ninehub.com/
eXtension vitrual state fair March 3, 2008
Had popcorn, rode rides, played games, chatted with colleagues, visited booths, interacted with exhibits and rode a horse-drawn carriage. It was all good.
on the road to eLearning February 15, 2008
Here’s a 3 minute slideshow I used in a recent training: on the road to eLearning
February 4, 2008
Atomic Learning is making their self-paced blogging workshop called “Learn to Blog” available for free for the month of February. There are lots of good video tutorials- and lots of good information- on the site. I better check it our before the month is over!
open source eLearning authoring tool January 28, 2008
I’ve just downloaded eXe, an open source eLearning authoring tool, and will report back when I’ve had a chance to play with it. Anyone else tried it?
It looks interesting- and open source is always worth looking into, in my opinion…
There’s a youtube video intro: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yynnOC6ecR4
and a demo made with eXe : http://www.kineo.co.uk/demos/exe_course/index.html
animating with PPT January 15, 2008
Animations can make your courses and your presentations come alive. And you don’t have to learn flash – you can make simple animations right within Powerpoint. The Rapid eLearning Blog has some great ideas- and a tutorial on making simple animations in PPT. Check it out!
Jott is fabulous… January 11, 2008
Jott is fabulous. It allows you to talk and it will transcribe what you say and post it to something like your blog or to someone’s e-mail or text it to someone’s phone. It’s a great tool. If you haven’t checked it out you should.
I posted this by calling and talking- and jott transcribed what I said and posted it here for me. Wonderful!
visual thinking December 17, 2007
Dave Gray’s got a great module about Visual Thinking at http://www.squidoo.com/Visualthinking
with information about how to draw a stick figure, among other things
