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10 Great Tools for Creating eBooks. July 10, 2013 by Ronda Bowen Today, eBooks are popular tools for content marketers who want to get their message across to a wider audience.

10 Great Tools for Creating eBooks

Not only can offering a free eBook be helpful for building a mailing list of prospective customers and clients, but a well-crafted eBook can also demonstrate that you have the knowledge, resources, and skills your customer needs. There are a number of tools available to help individuals design professional-looking eBooks. We even have a guide here on Rock the Deadline with tips for creating an eBook in Microsoft Word. Some of the apps on this list, such as Evernote, are best suited for pulling together your thoughts and ideas while others, such as PagePlus, are excellent layout and design tools. Evernote Evernote is a popular program for organizing thoughts, notes, websites, images, and PDF files in one place.

Elearning tools. SLOODLE: Simulation-Linked Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment. Wikispaces. Campus - K-12 Education. Why choose Wikispaces Campus?

Campus - K-12 Education

List of Free Tools to Create Infographics for your Learners. 18 Free Must Have iPad Apps for Teachers and School Administrators. eLearningInfographics: The Best Education Infographics. As founder of the eLearning Industry’s network I am super excited with our new user-generated infographics site.

eLearningInfographics: The Best Education Infographics

A few months ago, several members of the eLearning Industry network contacted me requesting a website that would be dedicated to the best education infographics. Having this in mind, we formed a team of creative, hard-working, and passionate online educators. As a consequence, we just released the eLearningInfographics.com At eLearning Infographics you can find the best education infographics based on a thriving community of 75,000+ online educators, teachers, instructional designers, professors, and in general, professionals that have a great passion about education. Hot Potatoes Home Page. Streamfolio. The 5 Best Free Tools for Publishing Student Work. If you are a passionate educator, you know your students are bright and it’s likely that you want to show the world.

The 5 Best Free Tools for Publishing Student Work

However, publishing student work is not always as easy as taping an assignment on the wall. How do you go about publishing student work online so that it’s available to the world? Read on to find out the 5 best free educational tools for publishing student work. FlipsnackAbout Flipsnack Flipsnack is a free online app that allows you to convert images into digital books with a professional look and the ability to flip through pages.How to Use FlipsnackThe first thing you’ll need to do is sign up. Flipsnack allows users to sign up with a simple email address. Top 5 Ways to Use Mind Maps for E-Learning. Are you interested in improving your eLearning?

Top 5 Ways to Use Mind Maps for E-Learning

These 5 techniques will help you leverage the power of Mind Maps and encourage you to utilize online Mind Maps in particular. Follow these tips to transform your eLearning using online Mind Maps. Mind Maps are increasingly used as a tool to improve eLearning, understanding and memory through the visual representation of information. Online mind maps are gaining popularity due to their ease of use, accessibility and ability to be used to transform eLearning into an active process. Students, teachers and others interested in eLearning can benefit from using Mind Maps to boost productivity. How Mind Maps Can Be Used As An Effective Tool For eLearning Planning Mind Maps are the perfect tool for creating a learning plan; whether it’s planning your curriculum, breaking down a particular subject or simply to map out an essay or exam answer.

Instant screencasts: Just click record. Create and share visual ideas online. FaceYourManga. Sites to Create Cartoon Characters of Yourself. If you are not comfortable using real photos to represent yourself in any online profiles and avatars, why not create a cartoon characters of yourself?

Sites to Create Cartoon Characters of Yourself

It’ll definitely be fun and unique to others when you are representing yourself in a cartoonized way in your online profiles. Thanks to many free web services, you don’t have to pay an artist for your cartoon illustrations. All you have to do is upload your photo, or run some mix and match. Here are 12 websites that allows you to create a cartoon a character of yourself. Read Also: 10 Websites to Create Your Very Own Avatar Pho.to This awesome site can not only turn your landscape photo into a watercolor drawing, but also make your face morph. WeeWorld Create an cartoon character to represent yourself in WeeWorld games. Pick a Face Pick a Face is one of my favorite websites, because it has really modern design and cool features. Meez Build Your Wild Self Moron Face Portrait Illustration Maker South Park Avatar Pixton’s Picks.

The Audacity of Audacity. Audacity is a free, easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems.

The Audacity of Audacity

In this post, Ryan Tracey shares how he uses it to turn the Subject Matter Experts in his organization from zero to hero in a few clicks. No, this isn’t a post about Barrack Obama. It’s about one of my all-time favorite educational technologies. Launched in the year 2000, Audacity is a free, yet remarkably sophisticated audio editing tool. I like it because it can be used by Average Joe to record, edit and publish audio clips quickly and easily. The Audacity of Audacity.