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Free and Low Cost Alternatives for Developing e-Learning Walter Wimberly, SunGard Public Sector Produced by January 29 & 30, 2009 202 Successful Techniques and Strategies for Navigating Turbulent Times – Fast, Cheap, and Effective e-Learning
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Free and Low Cost Alternatives for Developing e-Learning
Walter Wimberly, SunGard Public Sector
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January 29 & 30, 2009
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Successful Techniques and Strategies for Navigating Turbulent Times – Fast, Cheap, and Effective e-Learning
Successful Techniques and Strategies for Navigating Turbulent Times – Fast, Cheap, and Effective e-Learning
January 29 & 30, 2009
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Free and Low Cost Alternatives for Developing e-Learning
Walter Wimberly
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This Session’s Topics
Why you need to reduce costsHow I choose to rate toolsSome really cool tools, which won't break
your budgetTools to help you Plan your learning contentTools and Resources to Build your contentTools to Deliver your content
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How I got to know about these Free tools?
College Industry
by beatboxbadhabit
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How I rated tools
Strength
by tinou bao
Can I do what I need it to do?
What else can it do for me?
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How I rated tools
StrengthEase of Use
“I can't spend months learning some new tool.”
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How I rated tools
StrengthEase of UseCost
by AMagill
??Just how cheap is cheap?
Is it a good value?
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What free tools do you use?
Type in the chat window if you would please.
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Planning Your Learning Content
by jonathanvlarocca
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Poll #1
How much time do you spend planning?
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Project Management
Gantt Project
Replacement for MS ProjectAllows you to define resources and personal and assign them to tasks
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Project Management
Gantt Project
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Flowcharts & Mock-ups & More
Smart DrawYou can Develop Forms to Flowcharts, to Flyers.Several price levels depending upon the number of licenses.7 day trial available.
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Flowcharts & Mock-ups & More
Smart Draw
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Flowcharts & Mock-ups
Flowchart.comWeb based, so no installs (keep IT happy)Supports different types of charts.
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Live Demo
Live Demohttp://www.FlowChart.com/
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Flowcharts & Mock-ups
Flowchart.com
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Flowcharts & Mock-ups
Flowchart.com
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Building Your Content
by MK Media Productions
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PowerPoint (& other) Templates
There are literally tens of thousands of sites which cater to providing Power Point templates for free, or at a low cost.
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Working with Images/Photos
by simiant
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Poll #2
So where do you get your images from?
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Finding Images and Photos
Royalty Based
Royalty Free
Free & Royalty Free
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Low Cost Image Sources
fotolia (http://us.fotolia.com/)iStock Photo (http://www.istockphoto.com/)
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Free Image Sources
Stock.XCHNGFlickr•Flickr Search Engines
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Sometimes the most obvious place to get a photo…
by simiant
…Your Own Camera
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Low Cost Screen Capture Software
SnagIthttp://www.techsmith.com/screen-capture.aspby: TechSmith
StandardCan capture windows which need to scrollAdd captions
FullShothttp://www.inbit.com/fullshot.htmlby: inbit
Add “tares”Add captions, notations
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Free Screen Capture
Jing ProjectPrint Screen
No downloads – just your keyboardComes with your OSPrint Screen grabs your whole desktopareaCtrl + Print Screengrabs only the active window!
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Low Cost Screen Video Capture
Mimic by: Mad Caphttp://madcapsoftware.com/products/mimic/
Screen Mimic By: Decimus Software, IncFor Mac OS Xhttp://www.decimus.net/ScreenMimic.php
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“Free” Screen Video Capture
Jing ProjectBy: TechSmithhttp://jingproject.com/Ability to easily upload to a websiteAvailable for Windows and Mac OS XPro version available for low cost, and it provides extra features
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Free Screen Video Capture
Wink By: Debug Modehttp://www.debugmode.com/wink/Allows editing, and event driven screen capturesSupports Windows and Linux
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Free Imaging Software
Gimphttp://www.gimp.org/For Windows, Linux, and Mac OS XLots of plug-ins to extend its abilityProvides many of the same features as Photoshop
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Free Imaging Software
PicasaMac OS X & PCFree from GoogleMore for organizing images
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Free Imaging Software
Paint.Nethttp://www.getpaint.net/For Windows onlyLike Windows Paint, on steroidsEasier to use than Gimp/Photoshop, but not as powerful
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Live Demo – Paint.Net
Paint.Net
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Free Imaging Software
Paint.Nethttp://www.getpaint.net/
Web Based Imaging Software
AviaryMultiple types of imaging tools: photo editing, pattern making, etc.Small Subscription Feehttp://aviary.com/home
Sumo PaintPhoto Manipulation and PaintingFreeRequires no sign-onhttp://www.sumopaint.com/
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Delivering Your Content
I have to send it where?
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PDF Generation
Adobe created the format to allow documents to be taken from any computer, to be read/print from any other computer, while keeping the document looking identical.Many Free tools:
CutePDFOpen Office (also reads some PDFs)MS Office 2007And more…
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Web Page Development
Few of us will have to do full web development.But, as many of us output to HTML, we occasionally are called upon to edit a file.
by Bull3t
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Poll #3
Do you spend any time working on editing the web pages created by your tools for creating eLearning Content?
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Free Web Editors
AptanaText/Code only editingLots of add-ons availableBecoming more Programmer Centric, but quick edits still possible
Free Web Editors
MS Visual Web Developer Express Edition
WYSIWYG editorCan do full web programming as well as simple pages
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Web Conferencing
Yugma, DimDim, YuuguuGroups of up to 20Includes ability to share white boards, documents, desktop, etc.Free and Fee based depending upon needsRuns in the browser Yugma (with Java support) & DimDim (Flash) or as separate download (Yuuguu)
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Learning Management Systems (LMS)
MoodleFree Web Based LMSRuns in any browser for both admin and user“Needs” to run on a Unix/Linux server
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Wrap Up
Any Questions?Any Free Tools You Use?
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Thanks for Attending
Walter [email protected]
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Free and Low Cost e-Learning Software eLearning Planning Tools Gantt Project http://ganttproject.biz/ Smart Draw http://www.smartdraw.com/ Flowchart.com http://flowchart.com/
Photo Resources fotolia http://us.fotolia.com/ iStock Photo http://www.istockphoto.com/ Stock.XCHNG http://www.sxc.hu/ Flickr http://www.flickr.com/
http://www.flickr.com/search/advanced
Screen Capture Software SnagIt http://www.techsmith.com/screen-capture.asp FullShot http://www.inbit.com/fullshot.html Jing Project http://www.jingproject.com/ Mimic http://madcapsoftware.com/products/mimic/ Screen Mimic http://www.decimus.net/ScreenMimic.php Wink http://www.debugmode.com/wink/
Image Editors Gimp http://www.gimp.org/ Picasa http://picasa.google.com/ Paint.Net http://www.getpaint.net/
Web Based Image Editors Aviary http://aviary.com/home Sumo Paint http://www.sumopaint.com/
Webpage Editors Aptana http://www.aptana.com/ Microsoft Visual Web Developer Express Edition
http://www.microsoft.com/express/vwd/
Successful Techniques and Strategies for Navigating Turbulent Times – Fast, Cheap, and Effective e-Learning
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Web Conferencing Yugma http://www.yugma.com/ DimDim http://www.dimdim.com/ Yuuguu http://www.yuuguu.com/home
LMS Software Moodle http://moodle.org/
