Jane's Pick of the Day

ScreenSnapr

Here's a link to yet another screencasting tool.  This one is described as "an extraordinary app with extraordinary speed"  Why? How?

"Simply press the ScreenSnapr Hotkey (Ctrl + 1), and almost instantly have access to a URL to share on IM, Twitter, Email, or any other virtual medium. So go ahead, take a Screenshot. It's a Snap!"

Here's a brief video introduction.

ScreenSnapr Intro from ScreenSnapr on Vimeo.

You can download ScreenSnapr for Windows XP or Vista.

ScreenSnapr

[And here you will find a list of over 70 screen capture and screencasting tools]

This week's round-up of my activity

Here's a roundup of my blog and bookmark postings this week all in one place in case you missed any of them!

Social Media In Learning blog

• What are the evolutionary stages of a social media evangelist?
• SocialToo
• Import your Google Docs to Slideshare
• Integrate Tokbox and Etherpad.

All things Elgg blog

• Featured Elgg site #2: WWF's learn2perform
• Elgg 1.6 released

Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day blog

• 100 reasons to mindmap
• Vidal Sassoon Hair Styling Videos
• Lily Leadbetter Fair Pay Act: Free E-Learning Module
• VideoJug
• Eduset
• Rouxbe: Online Video Cookery School

Delicious bookmarks

• 12 add-ons every Firefox user must have | News | TechRadar UK
• Ignite, a five-minute presentation — by Jay Cross - we need more presos like this!
• Simplifying the Gartner Hype Cycle – 2.0 Style
• 100 Best YouTube Videos for Teachers - Classroom 2.0
• Top tables - e-learning companies
• Back to School: Top 10 iPhone Apps for Students
• You can lead them to social media, but can you make them drink?
• Top 10 BlackBerry Tips
• How to Keep Kids Engaged in Class
• 12-words-you-can-never-say-in-the-office.html: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance
• 50 Excellent Online Communities for Lifelong Learners
• Twitter B2B Case Study: Barriers and Learning (+Results, just added)
• Google Docs Automatically Translates Documents into 42 Languages
• Crazy Egg – visualize your visitors
• Goodbye Virtual Reality, Hello Augmented Reality - a nice introudction
• Top 10 internet search tips
• 50 Fantastic Bing Tricks for Students

100 reasons to mindmap

I am often asked about mindmapping by people who have never tried it.  Why would they want to do it, etc?  I've just found come across this great article from Mind Map Inspiration, called 100 reasons to mind map, so this is a useful place to look for ideas about how it can be used.

And, if you are looking for some mind mapping tools to get started, then Bubbl.us, a free collaborative online mind mapping tool is currently the highest ranking mind mapping tool on our op 100 Tools for Learning list.

But you will find a further 30+ mind mapping and brainstorming tools here

Vidal Sassoon Hair Styling Videos

Heikki Paulaharju, a Senior Designer at JABA Multimedia Design in Australia,emailed to tell me about this site that he designed:

"This would be a nice example of eLearning as a commercial solution for hairdressers/people who want to know how they can improve their skills in that area. I noticed, that you had one example on daily picks about cooking... So this would be a continuum.

"Click on the chevron, that says: “Hair styling wizard”, underneath the VS Sassoon logo. It opens up a wizard and at the end it brings up a video instructions and proposed tools to achieve the style."

Vidal Sassoon Hair Styling Videos

Heikki adds that the idea and videos were done by In-Point advertising agency in Sydney, Australia

Lily Leadbetter Fair Pay Act: Free E-Learning Module

Steve Rayson, a partner at Kineo, told me about the free e-learning module they have created on the Lilly Ledbetter fair Pay Act in the US.  It was one of the first Acts that Obama introduced and they are keen to help promote the principles of the Act

Apparently, 7% of US companies have had more than 20 wage and hour lawsuits filed against them, and a third of all publicly held organizations and 17% of private organizations have had lawsuits of at more than $20m at issue.

The Kineo E-Learning module allows organizations to provide learning to all their employees on the implications of the new Fair Pay Act, and Kineo are giving it away to organisations in the US with the files so they can add their logo and change text as they want. 

You can view the module at www.kineo.com/demos/lilly/main.html 

To request your free copy of the e-learning module, email Steve Lowenthal, Group CEO, at steve.lowenthal@kineo.com.

VideoJug

When people think of video sharing sites, they, in the main, automatically tend to think of YouTube.  But here's another well regarded video site, that is growing fast: VideoJug.

There have been some big developments recently including a re-brand, site re-design, introduction of articles, an improved community area, and a huge increase in the video library (now over 100,000). 
So if you haven't visited it, it's time to take a look:

VideoJug

[50+ video sharing sites here]

Eduset

WIll Johnson emailed to tell me about Eduset, a new online classroom collaboration tool. Eduset provides a way for teachers to share assignments, news, files, and other content with their classes, without requiring them to code their own class websites.

You can take a tour of Eduset in this video:

Try Eduset with one class, absolutely free, for as long as you want. When you're ready to use it for all of your classes, it's only $4.99 a month.

Eduset

Rouxbe: Online Video Cookery School

I've posted about Rouxbe last year, but have just received an email saying they have just turned one this month and are now in 180 countries.

Rouxbe is the web's first-ever online video cooking school complete with practice video recipes, cooking exercises, culinary quizzes, progress reporting and personal chef support.

For me, Rouxbe, is one of the best, if not the best example of the use of video in learning, so even if you don't like cooking, you should take a look at this site.  Even better, is the fact that you can now set up a free account. 

Here's just a taster of the quality of the video, although you need to access the site to see the exercises, quizzes, discussions etc.

Rouxbe Online Video Cookery School

My other blog postings this week

Here are some of my other blog postings this week in chronological order (with most recent last)

Social Media In Learning blog: Keeping you up to date with social media news, resources and tips!

• tweetzi
• TypePad getting better all the time
• A guide to file sharing
• cTwittLike
• screenr
• Social media and workplace learning
• Twitter Tips: The Ultimate Guide
• Social media and workplace learning/li>
• Execs don't want to be "friended" by their colleagues
• Social media use by universities and businesses
• Using Wordle safely
• All things Elgg
• Non-profits leading the way in use of social media
• Gathering examples of use of social media for learning

All things Elgg: a new blog supporting the implementation, customisation and use of the open source social engine, Engine

• About Elgg
• Using Elgg to support formal learning
• Elgg in K12
• Featured Elgg site #1: Social Media In Learning : Community

Deeper Web

I missed a Pick of the Day posting on Wednesday, so here's another one for today.

DeeperWeb is a free search engine tool for Google users that allows navigating through search results by employing Tag Cloud techniques.  Additional technologies such as Topic-Mapping methods are implemented to assist users in identifying relevant results upon a specific topic.

There's a useful little Tutorial to find out how to use DeeperWeb to enhance your searching experience

DeeperWeb

You can find nearly 70 different (re)search tools here.