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A Dozen Handpicked E-Learning Resources. It’s hard to believe that we’re approaching the last quarter of 2010.

This year seems to have flown by. I’ve had fun with travel across the country and getting to meet so many blog readers at various conferences. This past week I dedicated a little bit of time trying to catch up on some reading. As I looked over my feed reader, I realized just how much good stuff I missed. If you’re like me, you’ve probably been busy, as well. Odds are that during the summer months elearning wasn’t on the top of your list. Handpicked E-Learning Tutorials 50 practical how-to tutorials.

Going into the Articulate Guru Awards, I thought it would be a good idea to put together some information that would help those who weren’t sure what to do. Tips on building content for your elearning portfolio. Free PowerPoint Templates Let’s face it: everyone loves free stuff! Tabbed PowerPoint Template Clipart-based PowerPoint Template Flip Card PowerPoint Template 10 Free Audio Applications From the Community Tidbits: Online Color Scheme Generator. Kuler. Cathy Moore - ideas for instructional design and elearning.

Elearning Resources. How to Be Successful at Rapid E-Learning. Here’s what I find typical of people who do rapid elearning.

Their organization needs to take existing content (usually a bunch of PowerPoint files) and get it online as soon as possible. So they buy an authoring tool and quickly convert the content. Once it’s online, they realize that many of the courses look like PowerPoint slides. So they start focusing on how to make the screens look better. Voila! The more courses they create, the more they realize they need to craft better learning experiences. Learning Management Systems and Learning Portals. Totara LMS is an open source platform co-developed originally by Kineo UK, Kineo Pacific and Catalyst IT.

Learning Management Systems and Learning Portals

We collaborated to create what we believe is a game-changer in the LMS market. It’s built on Moodle, the world’s most popular LMS – with a comprehensive and growing set of features for business. Now used by over 300 businesses globally, including Sony Europe, easyJet, Safeway,Vodafone Ireland and Compass, Totara LMS is a leading global LMS and learning portal solution. **New for 2014** Totara LMS Mobile now brings the best of Totara to multiple devices.

Benefits of Totara Value for money If you already have a proprietary LMS the chances are you think you’re paying too much. Totara offers the key features and robustness you expect from an enterprise LMS, and some further innovations besides. We believe Totara is up to 80% more cost-effective than other LMSs because we have extended the open source Moodle platform to be specifically aligned to the needs of workplace learning. Feature rich. Wink - [Homepage] Here is a sample Flash tutorial created by Wink.

Click the green arrow button to start viewing it. --------> This is a good example of how you can create tutorials in Wink, by capturing screenshots, mouse movements and specifying your own explanations with them. And all this in a standard Windows-based UI with drag-and-drop editing makes it very easy to create high quality tutorials/documentation. It is estimated that Macromedia Flash Player is installed in more than 90% of the PCs. Do you develop mobile apps or want to create tutorials about using mobile apps and websites? A new version of Wink is under development, to easily create tutorials about mobile apps and websites.If you would like to try it out when ready, please sign up here.

Online Team Collaboration. Free Audio Editor and Recorder. Over 75 Free Rapid E-Learning Resources. The other day this guy asked me how to develop color schemes for his rapid elearning courses.

Like a lot of guys, he has some issues with color perception so he wanted an easy way to match colors. I have the same challenge. In fact, my wife’s probably getting annoyed with me always asking which shirts and pants match when I pack for the conference trips. It’s a good thing I can trust her. Otherwise, I might show up at the conference looking like a doofus in a leisure suit. I shared some of the tools that I use for color schemes in previous posts like this one on creating your own rapid elearning PowerPoint template. As I was searching previous posts to answer his question, I ran into a lot of the tools and sites that I’ve recommended in previous blog posts. Also, here’s a link to the 200 free rapid elearning tutorials I posted a while back. Audio Resources Samson Go Mic: I get lots of questions asking about a good mic for about $50.

Video Resources Graphics Resources Image editing software: Using Technology to Enhance Literacy Instruction. This Critical Issue was coauthored by Ann Holum, Ph.D., and Jan Gahala, M.A.

Holum's doctoral work on the use of interactive media to improve children's story-understanding skills sparked her ongoing interest in integrating technologies in K-12 literacy settings; she currently is an independent educational consultant. Gahala is a technical specialist in NCREL's Communications department. ISSUE: Educational technology is nudging literacy instruction beyond its oral and print-based tradition to embrace online and electronic texts as well as multimedia. Computers are creating new opportunities for writing and collaborating. The Internet is constructing global bridges for students to communicate, underscoring the need for rock-solid reading and writing skills. Although technology promises new ways to promote literacy, educators' reactions to it have been mixed.