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Online learning resources

Online learning is emerging as a world-wide trend in personal and professional development - both in organisations and educational institutions.  This lens is designed to provide a gateway to this often confusing world.  It covers areas such as mobile learning, podcasting, e-assessment, digital storytelling, engaging disengaged youth and e-portfolios.

Ron Passfield, PhD

Education ipod - using ipods in education 

Ipods for Learning
Excellent reference article - introduces applications of ipods for education. Includes podcasting, learning from music, a case study...
Video: accessing blogs via Ipod
Shows you how to access blogs via different mobile devices - also moblogging.
Video: Road Test of the Belbin TuneTalk
Road test of the Belkin TuneTalk that converts the video iPod into a digital recorder i.e. you can use it to record voice memos, interviews or conferences. Good for recording audio for podcasting. We compared the Belkin TuneTalk to the xTreme MicroMemo and PDA.
Video: Road test of the xTreme MicroMemo
This is our road test of the xtreme MicroMemo that converts the video iPod into a digital recorder i.e. you can use it to record voice memos, interviews or conferences. Good for recording audio for podcasting.
iPods in education - applications
Great resource with practical applications and case studies. Focused on music education but also provides web links, suggested programs for use with ipods, resources for ipods - applications include ipods for assessment, iWriter, music for learning..

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Books on Online Learning 

The Virtual Student: A Profile and Guide to Working with Online Learners

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75 e-Learning Activities: Making Online Learning Interactive

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Education podcast - free resources 

FREE resources - wikkis, blogs, software and other resources to help you use podcasts in education.

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Podcasts of educational audios
Talking VTE is a podcast of educational conversations and audio recordings made at conferences, seminars and workshops throughout the Australian Vocational and Technical Education (VTE) sector.
A resource wiki on podcasting in education
A resource wiki with tutorials on creating audio or video podcasts, converting formats, recording Skype broadcasts, etc plus links.
Podcasting pedagogy
A discussion between educators re the pedagogy of podcasting.
Podcasts about mobile learning
A series of podcasts about aspects of mobile learning and e-learning.
Stanford on iTunes
Educational podcasts from Stanford University.

Digital Storytelling 

What is digital storytelling?
Explains what digital storytelling is and provides a link to a Digital Storytelling Starter Kit.
Digital Storytelling Starter Kit
Provides written and audio tutorials with digital storytelling examples, free software and weekly tips.
How can I use digital-storytelling?
Explains how digital storytelling can be used in the home, in education, at work, in the community or in affiliate marketing.
Digital Storytelling on YouTube
Great examples of digital stories on YouTube.
Free software to create digital stories
Includes Photo Story 3, Windows Movie Maker 2, Apple iMovie and VoiceThread.
Digital Storytelling on Amazon.com
Resources and books on Amazon.com for creating digital stories.
Examples of Digital Stories
Examples using different media and drawn from a range of sources.
More Digital Stories on YouTube
YouTube is a rich store of digital stories.
Communicating culture through digital stories
Digital stories about Aboriginal culture told by Aboriginal people. You can hear and see the rich oral tradition being passed down through generations by the use of digital storytelling.
Examples of digital storytelling in education
Provides a range of examples of educational digital stories for different levels of school children.
Digital story tools
Tools to help you develop digital stories - adding animation, right-sizing a digital image or photo..
Digital story making helps autistic child
An account of how digital storytelling helped an autistic child to communicate and engage with energy and excitement.
Photo stories by primary school children
These primary school digital stories focus on the environment, healthy lifestyle and sustainability - here's where our future lies.
Digital StoryMapping
Digital stories based on the emerging digital mapping technologies.
Digital stories from Maricopa Center for Learning & Instruction
RSS feed from Maricopa providing examples of digital storytelling in education.
ePortfolios and digital stories
Provides resources and examples for integrating digital stories in ePortfolios.
Digital storytelling on Del.icio.us
RSS feed from Del.icio.us giving the latest post on digital stories.
Digital stories in education
Google blog posts about digital storytelling in the classroom - RSS feed.

Digital Storytelling Helps Autistic Child 

Lynne Gibb (Australia) discusses her success in using digital storytelling to fully engage an autistic child:

I used DST last School Holiday Program with children ranging from Grades 1 - 6. It was a knockout success! The greatest success story was an autistic boy (11 years) who had been at the program for 4 years and hardly ever said a word. He spent hours looking through pctures of himself from all his previous programs and put them together into a sequence of his own choosing then proceeded to astound everyone as he started to talk about all the things he had done in the pictures, starting in a quiet tiny voice and eventually getting right into it and putting on funny voices, raising his voice and shouting even laughing would you believe!

It was amazing. he even put pictures of other children in there and said they were his friends - and the amazing thing was, they came and looked over his shoulder as he worked and he let them. He even started communicating with them, laughing and giggling. It was astounding. When his story was shown to his mother she couldn't believe her eyes. It was the biggest breakthrough he had ever had! There is definite power in storytelling and Photostory 3 is an easy and quickly rewarding program for children of all ages. Even the grade ones managed it quite successfully.


For the full discussion of this forum thread - Digital Storytelling: stories create a storm in schools - visit the following link:
Auistralian Flexible Learning Framework - Networks Community Forum.

You will need to register to access the forum but you will have access to a very rich store of discussions of new and very experienced e-learning practitioners.

Digital storytelling books 

Amazon.com provides a wide range of resources on digital storytelling.

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Online Learning Games 

Free online learning games - OSSwin Project
The OSSwin Project provides a registry of Open Source Games for Windows in multiple categories including word games, board games...
Marie Jasinski on game based learning
Multimedia games, game workshop resources, web-based games examples, games sampler, email games, e-games.
Online, interactive learning games
1500 online, interactive learning games and activities indexed by subject topic and theme. The underwater atmosphere encourages students to return for more learning fun. Have a swimming time with the fish.
TeamSpeak
TeamSpeak is a gamers tool, designed to allow teams to keep in touch using voip while playing multiplayer online games. This also makes it a good candidate for tutorials and walkthroughs - using in conjunction with shared online activities (like the recent Active Worlds excursion).

The Knowledge Tree 

Australia's Premier E-Journal of Learning Innovation

I have known the Managing Editor for this journal, Jo Murray, for many years. Jo is a leading exponent of online learning and flexible learning.

The Knowledge Tree practices what it preaches with collaborative article writing, live conversations around articles, mobile journal access, podcasts and Elluminate sessions with authors.

The Journal taps into both leading Australian and Overseas practitioners and academics in the field and provides access to state-of-the-art developments in learning innovation.

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Tools for online learning and online marketing 

Ourmedia - to upload audio and video
Use Ourmedia to upload files, like digital stories, mp3 files and text worksheets. Video producers use Ourmedia to show off their works and create communities of interest.
SpinXpress - Connect to media producers, media and tools
Easy upload and storage of media, access to video media, collaborative production, collaboration tools.
Digital storytelling starter kit
Turn your photos into movies - you can create imaginative, interesting and innovative movies from still photos - your easy road to digital storytelling creation.
CrazyTalk - animation tool
Create and control a virtual cast of live talking characters ready to deliver an animated vocal performance for your video, web, mobile or messaging projects.
Cool Text - free logo and graphic generator
Cool Text is a free graphics generator for web pages and anywhere else you need an impressive logo without a lot of design work. Simply choose what kind of image you would like. Then fill out a form and you'll have your own image created on the fly.
Moodle - a FREE Open Source Course Management System for Online Learning
Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities. You can download and use it on any computer you have handy (including webhosts), yet it can scale from a single-teacher site to a 50,000-student University.
Audacity: free audio editor and recorder
Audacity is a free, Open Source, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to record live audio as podcasts/ MP3 files and edit MP3 and WAV sound files...and lots more.
ScreenHunter
Free screen capture software to take screen shots. Easy to use and free for business or personal use.
Include a map of your location
Frappr.com enables you to display a map of your location.
Wikispaces: wikis for everyone
Create simple web pages that groups, friends, & families can edit together. Wikis work great for classrooms, work groups, families, sports teams, book and fan clubs, and more.
Google Earth
Google Earth isn't just mapping software; it's a powerful tool for viewing, creating and sharing interactive and highly visual information about a specific location.
Schoolr
Great resource for search - one stop location for searches on Google, Wikipedia, Dictionary, Theasaurus, Text translator...
SlideShare
Share presentations and mp3 podcasts. Upload all your slide decks, and find / download interesting presentations.
Slide
Create slideshows with variable skins and themes. Add music and download photos from Flickr, MySpace, Facebook...
rsizr
is a Flash application that lets you resize JPG, PNG, and GIF images on your computer. With rsizr, in addition to normal image rescaling and cropping, you can also resize images using a new image resizing algorithm called seam carving (a method of image retargeting) that tries to keep intact areas in your image that are richer in detail.
Slideoo - horizontal slideshow
Create a horizontal, scrolling slideshow. To create a slideshow simply visit Slideoo and enter a Flickr username to harvest images. After customizing the slideshow width, image size, and number of pictures, Slideoo quickly compiles the images into a scrollable format. Finally, quickpost or embed code into the platform of your choice - most popular social networks and major blog platforms are represented.
Vidivic - free web meetings
Hold your business meetings online. Easily invite your business partners and meet in the comfort of your own office. Vidivic offers easy-to-access free web conferencing that helps increase your productivity and will save you a lot of time and money.
Orb: MyCasting - Personal Broadcasting System
MyCasting is the opposite of broadcasting. When you install Orb software onto your home PC, you transform the machine into a personal broadcasting system. With Orb, you can MyCast. MyCasting means you are free to create, enjoy and share all your favorite media at anytime and any place and on virtually any internet connected media player with streaming capabilities (mobile phone, PDA, laptop or other PC).

Jane Knight's E-Learning of the Day 

A daily item of e-learning interest selected by Jane Hart of the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies

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Live and let learn - Michael Nelson's education blog 

LiveandletLearn is simply a place where I (Michael Nelson) can join in the global conversations to learn, reflect and take action on the things that are important not only to me, but also to my network of family, friends, students, colleagues and on-line contacts. It's a place for me to learn in the context of life, to practise what some people call Life based learning and have fun doing it!

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Education and Technology by Steve Dembo 

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Up to date news on developments in educational technology and innovative applications of software tools for education.

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Tools for online marketing and e-learning 



Cool Online Learning Tools for Teachers
Learn to program interactive 3D
Alice v2.0 is the next major version of the Alice 3D Authoring system, from the Stage3 Research Group at Carnegie Mellon University. It has been completely rewritten from scratch over the past few years. The focus of the Alice project is now to provide the best possible first exposure to programming for students ranging from middle schoolers to college students.
Ning - Classroom 2.0
The social networking site for those interested in Web 2.0 and collaborative technologies in education. Ning provides a supportive community and a comfortable place to enable educators to join the digital dialog.
Mind mapping on the web
Mindomo is a free, versatile Web-based mind mapping tool, delivering the capabilities of desktop mind mapping software in a Web browser - with no complex software to install or maintain. Create, edit mind maps, and share them with your colleagues or your friends.
VoiceThread - a place to capture voices
Create a VoiceThread and put the stories behind your pictures. Turn yearbooks, scrapbooks or photo-albums into VoiceThreads.
Blogging Toolbox
Wow - the NSW Learnscope group has put together an incredibly comprehensive catalogue of all the tools you could need to blog - this is better than a lolly shop!
SceneCaster
* Create or transform 3D images
* Choose from millions of 3D objects
* Share your scenes on SceneCaster, Flickr or FaceBook
* Personalize your scenes with your own talking avatar
Graspr sharing the wealth of knowledge
Graspr - Sharing the Wealth of Knowledge through videos and community. Graspr is "a social media and learning company building the first interactive, online community that enables people to connect and share their life experiences and expertise with people who are seeking it. The community is built around topic-specific videos in a variety of interest categories, such as health & fitness, home & garden, crafts, sports, and many more."
fo.reca.st - surveys
fo.reca.st surveys allow you to design online surveys, collect responses from the visitors of your blog or website, analyze them and finally present the survey results - all using only your web browser and for free. You can embed your survey in your blog and design your own format.
JotSpace
JotSpace is a free online whiteboard. Features: real-time, simultaneous editing & sharing; auto-saves your session and enables recall; facilitates the use of markers, stickies, photos, chat and more: no installation required. Looking for testers at this time - you can sign up for the alpha release.
FeedRaider - Customizable RSS Feed Aggregator
Start saving time by making pages of feeds! Create unlimited pages of text, video, audio and photos to better experience the Internet and stay updated on stuff that matters.
Creative Commons - shared music, images and video
Lets you search sites like blip.tv and Flickr for images, music and video that you can re-mix and re-use legally.
Mind mapping, concept mapping in 3D
3D Topicscape is the information organizer for mindmappers and a relief for all those weighed down by information overload. As well as concept mapping and mindmapping in 3D you can use it to organize all your files, plan projects and manage information and do efficient web research. This is a commercial application.
DrawAnywhere
DrawAnywhere is an online diagramming website, where you can draw, modify and share flowcharts and other diagrams, with the look & feel of a desktop application. It runs on any browser with Flash 9 installed. There is no need to download and install any custom software. Export your diagram as an image file (jpg, png etc) or a pdf file and add it to your digital story or Squidoo lens.
Utilium: learning resources for today' learner
Today's students are uninspired by traditional textbooks and course packs because they are largely text-based, static, and expensive. A Utilium Study Pack is a fresh approach. It's an integrated collection of learning resources drawn from a range of trusted online sources. These resources include timely articles, videos, podcasts, and exercises that fit the learning styles and preferences of today's students.

Mobile Learning 

A Reflectrive Journal on Mobile Learning Practice

This comprehensive blog from Leonard Low gives you the latest in mobile learning practices, tools and resources.

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Online tools for marketing and e-learning 



Cool Online Learning Tools for Teachers
FotoFlexer
Fotoflexer is a powerful, free, open-source online photo editor. Photos can be uploaded from your local drive or from photo sites like Flickr, Picasa, Facebook and MySpace. Users can save their "flexed" photos to their online FotoFlexer accounts and can e-mail them to others directly from the FotoFlexer site. FotoFlexer can be used with multiple systems provided you have the free Adobe Flash Player 9. Read more about it here: Jennifer Dorman's blog post
FlickrStorm
Enables you to search on Flick for photos around a theme very easily and do so by attribution (e.g. those available for commercial use). You can very easily view what is available because they appear on one page.
CamStudio
CamStudio provides free streaming video software. CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs)
authorSTREAM
Present and share Powerpoint presentations and slideshows for teaching, business, home or social networking.
TeacherTube
Like YouTube but designed for educators to share videos - you can host, tag and promote the videos. You can also put them on your website, Squidoo lens or blog. Best of all it's free and educational.
Edublogs
Free educational blogs based on WordPress - embed video, create podcasts, share your resources and join the largest educational network.
MouseLight
Sometimes it's difficult to tell an audience to look at a particular area of the screen. MouseLight puts a "spotlight" around your cursor and dims the surrounding area which enables your audience to effortlessly follow your path of movement on the screen.
Clipmarks
Clip and save text and images from websites with this tool. Everything you clip is added to your own fully searchable library of things you find on the web. Clips can be saved privately or publicly. You can organize your clips by adding tags (keywords) to them, or by putting them in Collections. You can add them to your blog or email them. You can search, sort and browse all of your clips on your own Clipmarks page.
FreeMind
Free mind mapping software written in Java. The applications for this tool are numerous.
PictureTrail
PictureTrail offers several services that enable you to express yourself. Photo sharing, cool photo slideshows, and image hosting will enhance your online community experience. We also host personal homepages which enable you to build your own social networking community right here on PT. We support myspace layout codes as well as music and web widgets from anywhere on the web!
Scriblink
Scriblink is a powerful free tool that allows you to collaborate in real time on a digital whiteboard where you can sketch, plan, collaborate or just have fun.
Interesting Snippets
Lynette's photoset of interesting quotes with photo backdrops. Fascinating group of common license material.
Jottit
Jottit makes getting a website as easy as filling out a textbox.
Super ©
SUPER © plays & converts very fast full length movies to any other format without any time or function limitation, e.g. convert .wmv to mp4 format. If you need a simple, yet very efficient tool to convert (encode) or play any Multimedia file, without reading manuals or spending long hours training, then SUPER © is all you need. It is a free Multimedia Encoder and Multimedia Player, easy-to-use with 1 simple click.
W3Schools Online
Full web building tutorials - all free. At W3Schools you will find all the Web-building tutorials you need, from basic HTML and XHTML to advanced XML, SQL, Database, Multimedia and WAP.
Picasa
Photo organiser and editor- Picasa is a free software download from Google that helps you:
* Locate and organise all the photos on your computer.
* Edit and add effects to your photos with a few simple clicks.
* Share your photos with others through email, prints and on the web:
it's fast, easy and free.
Erudix - knowledge sharing via wikis
# Write and share your lecture notes
# Create private working groups by using integrated wiki
# Edit your personal page and use privacy settings to control who sees your info
# Meet students from all over the world: more than 30 countries and 9 languages
RapidTyping - touch typing tutor
Free software - RapidTyping - touch typing tutor for Windows. Take a fascinating underwater tour which will help you learn quick and blind keyboard printing without mistakes. Try the free typing practice program. Try typing test. Improve your typing skill. Increase your typing speed.
OmniGraffle
Easy to use diagramming and programming tool.

What is your favourite way to use Squidoo in education? 

Squidoo provides anyone, teachers and students alike, with the opportunity to develop a multi-media website with ease.

Squidoo builds on the very best features of Flickr, MySpace and YouTube (but has greater security and focus).

I think the potential educational applications of Squidoo are endless.

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Jane's e-Learning Pick of the Day 

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Stephen Downes Online Daily RSS Feed 

This Blog is a gateway to the world of onlne learning. Stephen aggregates information from multiple sites. Here's the place to keep up to date.

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Understanding Learning Networks - Stephen Downes 

Presentation to Universite de Moncton, November 2, 2006.

This presentation is an excellent resource.

It brings together lots of seemingly disparate ideas in the area of online learning/e-learning.

You can download the Powerpoint presentation here:
Understanding Learning Networks- Powerpoint

The presentation is also available in MP3 format here:
Understanding Learning Networks - mp3

Stephen shows you how the various elements of e-learning fit together and discusses the future of online learning. His E-Learning 2.0 Diagram is well worth studying.

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Have your say - what do you think? 

lolilolismile wrote...

Very good lens. Thanks

ReplyPosted April 05, 2009

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hi, nice lens with a lot of interesting resources...thanks

ReplyPosted March 08, 2009

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I Want to use this to help my Letting Agency it will be useful for for online studies.

ReplyPosted January 23, 2009

surendersara wrote...

Excellent resources. Wanted to thank Ron. Used all his tips and created some invaluable online Oracle Technology Courses. Myself and friends have added 100's of streaming vodeos. We are looking forward to get to next level with ipod and other strategies described here. If someone is interested can lookup here.

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thanks
Suren

ReplyPosted January 06, 2009

Amanda_Blue wrote...

The company I head will soon debut an E-Learning Course and the information you have provided here is invaluable. Thank you SO much, As soon as our E-Learning lens is up and running this will be lensrolled to it. This extremely comprehensive, beautifully thought out and put together, helpful and GENEROUS lens is worthy of many more stars than 5 but I will give you 5 here and imagine all those others that you are owed shining above us in heaven...

ReplyPosted October 27, 2008

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Keaka77

Very useful information. Keep up the good work Ron..

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ReplyPosted September 10, 2008

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ReplyPosted August 31, 2008

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You've got some fantastic resources for preparing and actually taking online courses. Thanks for sharing this massive lens!

ReplyPosted August 28, 2008

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Very useful information in this lens.

A 5

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ReplyPosted August 13, 2008

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Using iPods in education
Provides a list of resources on the use of iPods for education - reference articles, moblogging, Belkin Tune Talk, xTreme MicroMemo, applications and case studies.
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Books on Online Learning
Online learning books available from Amazon.com. Covers elearning activities, engaging the online learner, the virtual student, discussion-based online learning, tools & tips for mobile learning and online learning,
Digital Storytelling
Provides the menu for my digital storytelling lens - links, examples, digital stories, tools and free software.

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