Resources

Here’s a list of resources that I use, have used, researched, or simply thought would benefit someone else in the e-learning world.

Guidelines and Standards:
NACOL National Standards for Quality Online Teaching

Design and Development Tools:
PowerPoint
Impatica for PowerPoint
Snagit
Camtasia Studio
Articulate
Adobe Captivate
Screencorder
Raptivity
Toolbook
Lectora
Dreamweaver
http://www.captureexpress.com/

If you are Faculty, Staff, or a Student at an institute of Higher Learning, you can find most of the above products at a significantly reduced price at: www.academicsuperstore.com

Free Stuff:

Net Meeting / Screen Sharing:
Yugma www.yugma.com
Windows Live www.windowslive.com
DimDim: www.dimdim.com
Elluminate: www.elluminate.com (3 for free)
Adobe Connect: http://www.adobe.com/acom/connectnow/

Collaboration: Personal Learning Networks
www.twitter.com
www.afterclass.com (K-12 Social Networking)

SOUND Editing Software:
Audacity: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Garage Band:

Information for ALL disciplines.
http://www.free.ed.gov/

Video / Screen recording software:
Jing: http://www.jingproject.com/
Blueberry: http://www.bbsoftware.co.uk/BBFlashBack_FreePlayer.aspx
Wink: http://www.debugmode.com/wink/
ScreenToaster: –http://www.screentoaster.com/
Faststone: http://www.faststone.org/FSCaptureDetail.htm
CamStudio: http://camstudio.org/
Auto Screen Recorder: http://www.wisdom-soft.com/products/autoscreenrecorder_free.htm

Uninstaller Program:
http://www.revouninstaller.com/index.html

Flicker:
www.flickr.com

Course Capture Software (Free to Educational Institutions)
Panopto (www.panopto.com)
Recorded Webinar Demo

Stream your class:
www.ustream.tv
www.mebeam.com
www.stickam.com

Diagram tools:
http://www.gliffy.com/

Creative Docs :
http://www.creativedocs.net/

Information on Free Media:
Cogdogroo

100+ places to learn online for FREE:
Mission to Learn

http://www.free-ed.net/free-ed/
Free courses for anyone!

Research Tool (Firefox plugin)
www.zotero.com

Cover It Live:
http://www.coveritlive.com/

Free Multiple Language Site:
http://www.livemocha.com/

Image editing and animation tool:
http://a.viary.com/home
http://www.voki.com/

Avatars:
http://voicethread.com/#home

2D world like Second Life…but much cleaner!
www.weeworld.com

Voice Thread:
http://www.jumpcut.com/
http://www.utterli.com/ – Great site to use for posting daily video logs or incorporating video discussion boards.

Video Editing Software:
Click Here

Student and Teacher Resources:

MERLOT: (Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning & Online Teaching)
http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm

Classroom 2.0:
http://www.classroom20.com/
This is an awesome site with resources and information on tons of Web 2.o information.

Text Replacement Tool to reduce typing:
Short Keys
I use this tool extensively. It works great for repetitive questions, or anytime you have to enter the same text over and over again.

CoComment
Use this tool to create conversations on websites that don’t have this feature. Your online classes could use this to discuss information on different web pages and you can easily keep track of it.

LMS / LCMS
Moodle: http://moodle.org/
Drupal: http://drupal.org/