Free eLearning Tools – DevLearn Morning Buzz Session
During the Morning Buzz that I hosted on Thursday of this year’s conference, myself and the participants brainstorm and shared many of the free tools that we use within our design and development process.Here is the listing of the tools that we complied as our favorite go to FREE resources.
Images
- Microsoft Office Clipart, Photos, Animations
- psdGraphics
- stock.xchng
- Flickr
- Flickr Commons
- Servier Medical Art
- WikiMedia Commons
- Your own photos
- search for free – icons, backgrounds, clipart. Will result in many free CC to use items.
Editing Tools/Screen Capture
- Gimp
- Popcorn
- Faststone
- Windows features
- Picasa
- PowerPoint
- Pixlr
- Paint
- Snagit ($)
- Screenr
- Jing
- Windows Movie Maker
Audio Capture/Editing
- Sound Recorder (within Windows)
- Audicity
- Soundforge
- Captivate ($$$)
- YakiToMe
- Words to Time Calculator
Collaborative Tools
- Sharepoint
- Anymeeting
- Google Docs
- Collate Box
- PBWorks
- Join.me
- Spring Pad
- Skype
- MS Send for Review
- Delicious.com
- Diigo
- Facetime
- Wikispaces
- Dropbox
- Evernote
- Livescribe ($)
- MS Lyncs ($)
- Pearltrees
- Voicethread
- Mindmeister (collaborative online tools – Robin Good)
- Wallwisher
- Yahoo Groups
Slide Sharing (or a great information resource)
Other Favorites
- Zoho
- Pixie (color grabber)
- Smartsheet (project management)
- Trello (project management)
- Kuler (color schemer)
- MS Publisher($)
- Color Schemer
- Sizer
- Fodey.com (newspaper clipping generator)
- jRuler (virtual screen ruler)
- Wunderlist (task listing)
- Poll Everywhere (live polling)
- Surveymonkey (survey tool)
- Mailchimp (email champaign tool)
- Animoto (video clips)
- Quizlet (flash card tool)
- Wordle (word cloud generator)
- Tagxedo (word cloud generator)
- MentorMob (creating learning playlists)
- Voki (speaking avatars)
- Yammer (enterprise social network)
- Doodle (scheduling)
- Glogster (social network)
- Dipity (timeline creation)
More Resources Sources for Design/Development Tips, Tricks, Q & A
- Twitter and tweetchats
- LinkedIn Groups
- Online Magazines (Learning Solutions, eLearn Magazine)
- Communities (Elearning Hereos)
- Blogs
For a fantastic comprehensive list that is updated yearly by YOUR votes – Jane Hart’s “Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies” - Top 100 Tools for Learning 2012
Free eLearning Tools – DevLearn Morning Buzz Session
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