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Ed.VoiceThread
http://ed.voicethread.com
Ed.VoiceThread is ...
It's a web-based collaborative network that is simple, powerful and safe. Specifically designed for K-12 educators and students, Ed.VoiceThread enables rich collaboration around multimedia in a secure environment. More like a pencil than a software platform, Ed.VoiceThread is a space for creating digital stories and documentaries, practicing language skills, exploring geography and culture, solving math problems, collaborating with other students, or simply finding and honing student voices.
The Ed.VoiceThread network is a worldwide community where safety is built upon a foundation of accountability. All users are known users, responsible for their content and behavior. Access is restricted to K-12 educators, students and administrators, and all content is created exclusively by registered members of the community.

Squeak
http://squeakland.org/
Squeak is a "media authoring tool"-- software that you can download to your computer and then use to create your own media or share and play with others. It is free and downloadable here.
Squeak is open source software
Education is a primary focus for many Squeakers - who are doing cutting edge research on how computers can be used to enhance and amplify learning. At Viewpoints Research, "Squeak Central", creator Alan Kay and director Kim Rose use Squeak with students to explore how this can be achieved. A 45 minute, multiple Emmy winning, documentary film called "Squeakers" was recently completed on this work. Several clips are available here.
Some students work with media created in Squeak by their teachers; others are creating their own simulations and models to test their theories and deepen their understanding of math and science.

Tutorom
http://www.tutorom.com/
Learn. Teach. Collaborate. Online elearning the tutorom way.
Access thousands of lessons or use our tools to create and control access to your own courses, collaborate with colleagues and much more.
Create tutorials online, share educational resources and collaborate with colleagues. Anyone can create their own courses, and either charge for them, restrict access to them, or deliver as public courses - with advertising revenues being split between the service and the author.

Scratch
http://scratch.mit.edu/
Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web.
Scratch is designed to enhance the technological fluency of young people, helping them learn to express themselves creatively with new technologies.
As they create Scratch projects, young people learn important mathematical and computational ideas, and they gain a deeper understanding of the process of design.
Scratch is developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab, with financial support from the National Science Foundation, Intel Foundation, and MIT Media Lab research consortia.

Wink
http://www.debugmode.com/wink/
Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software (like a tutor for MS-Word/Excel etc). Using Wink you can capture screenshots, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc and generate a highly effective tutorial for your users.
Freeware: Distributed as freeware for business or personal use. However if you want to redistribute Wink, you need to get permission from the author.
Cross-Platform: Available for all flavours of Windows and various versions of Linux (x86 only).

Screen Casting Area on Shambles
http://www.shambles.net/pages/staff/screencast/
Screen Casting Area on Shambles ... reviews, software, how to .... most software available is listed here
Screen casting | screencast | screen capture |

Create Interactive Content for E-Learning Courses
http://blog.articulate.com/
Create Interactive Content for E-Learning Courses
With Engage, e-learning course developers can now actively encourage discovery by prompting learners to interact, such as .....

Breeze Presenter - Rapid E-Learning
http://tinyurl.com/mjz7h
Breeze Presenter - Rapid E-Learning
Like many of the tools out there you can get a trial version to try it out yourself, but if you haven't the time, I will take you through what it can do.
Breeze Presenter installs very easily and adds an extra 'Breeze' menu item within Powerpoint. From here you can use all your skills in Powerpoint to build the core content of your programme (or more interestingly) take your fanciest custom Powerpoint animations and transfer them intact into your Breeze e-learning.

The Webcast Academy Open House (Webcasting)
http://www.webcastacademy.net/
The Webcast Academy Open House
The Academy is a hands on, collaborative training center for people interested in learning how to produce and host live, interactive webcasts. You can learn more about Webcast Academy Session 1.1 here. You can also register to begin online participating.
webcasting : free online authoring and hosting tool

Macromedia Breeze Online Seminar
http://www.macromedia.com/software/breeze/seminars/?sdid=DTJJ
Macromedia Breeze Online Seminar
Learn more about Macromedia Breeze by attending a live seminar given by a Breeze expert. Whether you want step-by-step instructions on using Breeze for the first time or an extensive review of Breeze capabilities and benefits for your organization, we offer a seminar to meet your needs.
Breeze software integrates live and on-demand online communication to increase your training reach and effectiveness.

ReadyGo Web Course Builder
http://www.readygo.com/
Courses developed in ReadyGo Web Course Builder can be easily integrated with popular Learning Management Systems (LMS) including Avilar, Claroline, Click2Learn, Docent, GeoMetrix, Hospital U, ILIAS, KMS-inc, Knowledge Planet, LearnFrame, MaxIT, Meridian KSI, Moodle, OnTrack, Oracle, Pathlore, PeopleSoft, Plateau, Questionmark, Saba, Sun, Track-ED by MRT Multimedia, Test Track, THINQ, and Ynot Learn.
Download a fully functional trial version of ReadyGo Web Course Builder; available in Danish, English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.
ReadyGo Web Course Builder supports the AICC, SCORM, IMS (XML), and ADA/508/W3C (for use with blind readers) standards.

Yacapaca Authoring
http://www.chalkface.com/pages/Yacapaca%20Authoring
Yacapaca Authoring

Macromedia Breeze
http://tinyurl.com/c3k5d
Macromedia Breeze
With rapid course authoring, Macromedia Breeze complements your LMS perfectly? enabling you to deliver compelling training fast, live, and on-demand.
Breeze makes it easy for anyone to author training content quickly, using nothing more complex than Microsoft PowerPoint.
Live virtual classrooms add to your online training options and effectiveness, with capabilities such as streaming video of multiple presenters.
Users can access Breeze on-demand courses and live meetings instantly through any web browser.
Breeze integrates seamlessly with your existing AICC or SCORM-based LMS. It also offers tracking and testing capabilities.

Demo Builder
http://www.demo-builder.com/index.html
Demo Builder is a powerful, yet simple to use, software tool for creating professional and fully interactive application demonstrations and simulations, presentations and tutorials.

ViewletBuilder
http://www.qarbon.com/presentation-software/viewletbuilder/
ViewletBuilder
Anyone can use ViewletBuilder to produce effective, professional looking Flash tutorials in minutes.
ViewletBuilder's Patented Screen Capture Process automatically reproduces the movement of your cursor, allowing you to create Flash tutorials or simulations that exactly mirror the way your product or web site works.
ViewletBuilder makes it easy to create interactive slide shows and tutorials such as this example of a virtual home tour.
With ViewletBuilder, there is no need to compile your project in order to see it in action. You can preview the Flash tutorial instantly to see the results of your work

BB FlashBack Express
http://www.bbsoftware.co.uk/BBFlashBackExpress/Home.aspx
BB FlashBack Express - the reduced price version of BB FlashBack - has everything you need to make great screen recordings.
Free trial version available for downloading.
FlashBack capture technology ensures perfect reproduction. Record a spoken commentary while recording the screen.
Record a window, region or full screen. BB FlashBack Express's easy to use interface makes it a breeze.
Review your recording frame by frame with the VCR-like movie player.

Reaching All Students with Macromedia Breeze
http://www.macromedia.com/resources/education/article/k12_tfish.html
Reaching All Students with Macromedia Breeze
Teachers at McDonogh School? coeducational independent school serving 1,260 students in Owings Mills, Maryland?re beginning to use Macromedia Breeze to supplement classroom instruction and provide additional resources for students.
Teachers at McDonogh love Breeze because it allows them to quickly and easily create high-quality, web-based multimedia presentations without having to learn another complicated software application. Students feel that hearing a teacher describe a concept is much more helpful than simply having access to the presentation slides that were used to teach a lesson.
This page gives access to online presentations made using Breeze.

ScribeStudio : elearning authorware : ASP Model
http://www.scribestudio.com/
ScribeStudio : elearning authorware : ASP Model
Web-Based: A 100% Web-based e-Learning toolset means you don? need to set up servers or download applications. Just log-in and get started!
Point-and-click simplicity allows you to quickly add content, tests, and quizzes to your course and to create a customized Learning Site where your Learners access educational and training materials.
All the tools you need to quickly create and publish e-Learning Programs and dynamic learning communities are now available through your Web browser.

KnowledgePresenter
http://www.knowledgepresenter.com/
KnowledgePresenter
Create fully interactive, SCORM compliant e-learning lessons - in a drag and drop environment.
Create fully interactive SCORM compliant e-learning lessons, from software simulations, multiple choice quizzes, through to fully synchronized multimedia presentations, with no programming, and no plugins required.
Lessons or presentations play back natively in a browser.

MindFlash : ASP Model
http://www.mindflash.com/pages/home.asp
Build and Launch your Online Courses today (FREE TRIAL) Build high-quality courses using PowerPoint, Word, or files in any other format. Add quizzes. Explore our learner management and communication tools. 30 seconds to sign up. No credit card required - no obligation.
Mindflash is a hosted training system. It contains features only found in enterprise learning and content management systems but it is designed to be extremely easy to afford, use and implement.
It is used by large and small organizations to setup and maintain their e-learning programs. The system includes tools to build and offer self-paced or instructor-led courses, customize the appearance of the website and courses, and generate and distribute reports.

Apreso Software : Capture Classroom Presentations
http://www.apreso.com/
Apreso Software : Capture Classroom Presentations and put them online.
Apreso Classroom software can be affordably installed on a standard computer in any classroom where lectures are to be captured. This "capture station" automatically captures the components of a classroom lecture including the screen activity of a classroom computer, or instructor's laptop, along with the instructor's audio and video. It then automatically creates an interactive, indexed, Web-based version of the classroom experience, called an "Apreso," which can be viewed on-demand by students via a Web browser.

EasyGenerator
http://www.easygenerator.com/
EasyGenerator is a comprehensive e-learning suite.
Interactive training can be developed three times faster than was previously possible. Discover on this website to find out what EasyGenerator?can do for you or your company.
With EasyGenerator?Suite complete study paths can be set out to match competency profiles within organisations. The Suite also offers valuable management information on the progress of employees on the training courses and tests. At any time a complete overview can be provided on the training progress of the organisation.
Interactive training courses without programming knowledge

Tobee
http://www.tobee.biz/content/tobee/index.html
Tobee
Free Composer software to create extended rich-media presentations
Web services to deliver these presentations over the Internet without downloading
The Composer Tools are remarkably simple to use. Anyone with nominal computer experience can create presentations.
Using , kids can experience first hand the hard work and creativity involved in making a movie - create a storyboard, write a screenplay, shoot scenes, and narrate the storyline. We call these online rich-media presentations "Kidzees".

HyperCam : Screen Recorder
http://www.hyperionics.com/hc/index.asp
HyperCam : Screen Recorder
HyperCam captures the action from your Windows screen and saves it to AVI (Audio-Video Interleaved) movie file. Sound from your system microphone is also recorded.
Please note that HyperCam is not intended for re-recording of other video clips from the screen (e.g. playing in Media Player, RealVideo, QuickTime etc.), but rather for creating regular software presentations, tutorial, demos etc.
Free demo

Macromedia RoboDemo
http://www.macromedia.com/software/robodemo/
Macromedia RoboDemo is the easiest way to create interactive demonstrations and software simulations in Flash format. RoboDemo records your actions in any application and instantly creates a Flash simulation with visible and audible mouse movements. The small file size and high resolution make RoboDemo simulations and demos easy to publish online or burn to CD for use in training, sales, marketing, or user support.
RoboDemo simulations are SCORM /AICC-compliant and simulations are high-resolution and small file size for rapid online delivery in SWF, EXE, and other online formats.
screen recorder |

Flex-iNotes (FiN)
http://www.trumptech.com/fin_main.htm
Flex-iNotes (FiN) is a multimedia resource management tool. It provides a framework for storing and retrieving multimedia resource files according to a curriculum based structure.
New items can be inserted into the structure at any time and the structure itself can be extended and modified as required.
Stored presentations can be recalled for further development or consolidation into a morecomprehensive presentation.
Presentations can be output to PowerPoint format, HTML pages or standalone presentation files

Case Study - Warwickshire College : CourseGenie
http://www.coursegenie.com/case_study/warwickshire.htm
Case Study - Warwickshire College UK : CourseGenie
Warwickshire College, like 80% of all UK Further Education and Higher Education Institutions, has purchased a Virtual Learning Environment(VLE) in order to deploy eLearning to students both on and off campus. There were two key IT Support functions the team would have to provide and in looking for a solution to this, they came across a new content authoring tool, courseGenie that seemed to be capable of assisting in both regards.
CourseGenie exports HTML : Because it plugs into Microsoft Word, staff are working in a familiar environment - in fact, there is little else for them to learn. Furthermore, courseGenie enables a range of interactivity types to be added to existing and new resources from within the Word environment itself. These include pop-ups, media files and 15 different types of self-test that are perfect for concept-checking situations delivered inline with the learning content.

Virtual Instructional Designer
http://thevid.org/
Virtual Instructional Designer
This is the public site for the Virtual Instructional Designer (VID), a LAAP grant-based project designed to assist faculty in developing online courses.
The Virtual Instructional Designer (VID) is a Learning Anytime Anywhere Partnership (LAAP) grant-funded project to create a Web-based performance tool for post-secondary faculty designing Web-based distance courses. The three-year grant began in August 1999 and will run through August 2002.
An EPSS (Electronic Performance Support System) for the Design of Online Courses

Teaching Templates 2.2.2 (shareware)
http://www.tac-soft.com/
Teaching Templates - a set of award-winning authoring tools to help you create interactive, educational exercises, tests and quizzes. The exercises can be put on a Web page, or run as standalone programs at home or in the classroom. The Teaching Templates suite has been used successfully in English language teaching courses at all levels of ability. It also offers an easy and timesaving way to prepare teaching materials in many other subjects.

Connexions
http://cnx.rice.edu/help/qstart/
In Connexions, a global community of authors, using special authoring tools, continually converts "raw knowledge" into small, self-contained modules of information and places them in the Content Commons, to be used, re-used, updated, and adapted. Instructors use a Course Composer software tool to weave modules into customized courses that can be placed on the Web, presented in class, or printed as paper text. Students and other learners access Web courses or individual modules directly using a special visualization and navigational Roadmap tool designed to highlight the nonlinear "connexions" among concepts both within the same course, but more importantly, across courses and disciplines.
Unlike any other educational technology project of its kind, Connexions features a synergistic mix of both software and content, and our solutions involving community development, modularization, XML markup, editorial lenses, and intellectual property cater directly to the wants and needs of the academic community. Connexions currently hosts over 1,000 modules in the Content Commons and is used as the primary text for eight courses.

Breeze from Macromedia
http://tinyurl.com/7op2w
Breeze from Macromedia - With Macromedia Breeze, now teachers, administrators, and students can use tools such as Microsoft PowerPoint to produce education and training materials to support classroom instruction and distance learning.
http://www.macromedia.com/resources/education/k12/

AICC, SCORM, IMS XML and other eLearning standards
http://www.readygo.com/standards
Want to learn more on AICC, SCORM, IMS XML and other eLearning standards?
Take a free online course An Introduction to AICC, SCORM, and IMS (XML)
Take a tour to see how easy it is to implement SCORM in Web Course Builder (requires Macromedia Flash plug-in).
Buy ReadyGo Web Course Builder ($495 per course author).
Download a free trial version of the ReadyGo Web Course Builder. See how easy it is to turn your course into SCORM, AICC, IMS (XML), or integrate your course with 15 learning managment systems LMS