Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day

Welcome to Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day

I am Jane Hart, a Social Media and Learning Consultant. Every day I feature here an item of (e-)learning interest.  If you would like to recommend a tool for Jane's Pick of the Day, you can email me at jane.hart@C4LPT.co.uk. You might like to visit my main website at www.C4LPT.co.uk where you will find a large number of resources about e-learning and social learning.

Schoology

Schoology states that it "has built the first social network for education with an integrated course management system. Teachers, administrators, students and parents are now connected within their own schools and across other school districts".

Schoology is available for K12 Higher Education and Individual use.

Schoology

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Aviary Screen Capture : Talon

A very simple screen capture tool.

Capture any webpage by adding Aviary.com/ to the beginning of the URL!

Aviary

Injoos Teamware

Injoos is a online collaboration vendor in the Software as a Service (SaaS) space. The Teamware platform enables simple online collaboration for distributed teams by combining traditional realtime collaboration tools with the new generation Business Social tools. Injoos combines the power of Enterprise document and project management tools with the simple and user friendly nature of Social Networking to provide a powerful yet easy to use platform for collaboration.

injoos

30-day free trial available

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Essential Articulate Studio 09

Patti Shank emailed to say that the Articulate Studio ’09 book she had been working on since Thanksgiving is now out.

It’s 1000+ pages long, and “is designed to help novice to intermediate users of Articulate Studio ‘09 get the most from using these tools — Presenter, Engage, Quizmaker, and Video Encoder — to develop quality informational and instructional materials"

You can order the book directly via the publisher and receive a 35% discount with coupon code art0586.  Or you can order it via Amazon.

Find out more about the book and how to purchase a copy at the Articulate site here.

tgethr

As their website puts it: "Email is still the most prominent form of communication we have. Do you really need that fancy collaboration tool or do you just need to get tgethr?"

1. Set up your group
2. Start communicating by sending an email to the group
3. Keep an archive

tgethr

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The Edgeless University

Back in April I was interviewed by Peter Bradwell, of the UK think tank Demos. for a research project he was leading on the impact of technology on Higher Education.

He has now produced the final report - The Edgeless University -  and which was published a few days ago.

An overview to the report appears on the Demos website as follows:

"British universities have world-class reputations and they are vital to our social and economic future. But they are in a tight spot. The huge public investment that sustained much of the sector is in jeopardy and the current way of working is not sustainable. Some are predicting the end of the university as we have known it.

The Edgeless University argues that this can be a moment of rebirth for universities. Technology is changing universities as they become just one source among many for ideas, knowledge and innovation. But online tools and open access also offer the means for their survival. Their expertise and value is needed more than ever to validate and support learning and research. Through their institutional capital, universities can use technology to offer more flexible provision and open more equal routes to higher education and learning.

We need the learning and research that higher education provides. But this will take strategic leadership from within, new connections with a growing world of informal learning and a commitment to openness and collaboration. By exploiting this role, universities can harness technology as a solution and an indispensable tool for shaping their vital role in the future."

You can download a PDF of the report for free under a Creative Commons licence.

Questchain

Questchain is a comprehensive platform for creation of questionnaires, distribution using imported contact lists from external sources, analysis and export to Excel. A guided tour is provided.

Easy embedding of video clips, images, area selection on images and rich text in questions and answers.

Questchain

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