Now being a software person, my first reaction was to go looking for some tools, free ones anyway and I found Agna , a superb little piece of Java freeware. Going on as I do these days with regard to the value of social networking tools practices and the implications for collaboration in learning, which you may well have picked this up from a number of posts in this blog. Just recently, during the summer, I have been dipping into SNA (Social Network Analysis) this is a methodology for mapping and measuring relationships and flows in a system; this can be human or even data itself. MORE >>

Think of it as freeware Captivate. Good post by Harold Jarche - Where are open source learning applications? In it he points to the learning space and says that the current status of open-source learning applications is: Innovators - Elgg Learning Landscape and several others Early Adopters - Moodle and a few others Early Majority - nobody Late Majority - forget about it I would tend to agree with him that there are relatively few open-source learning applications, but would add a few thoughts. In other words, the cost of Captivate is less than the lost time dealing with Wink. MORE >>

Easy – with the excellent Windows freeware app Sizer by Brian Apps. In eLearning development there is an almost-constant need to size application windows to a specific resolution when doing static or full-motion screen captures. Capturing your windows and resizing upon publication almost always results in undesirable visual compression. Your best bet is to set your application window to your desired output size before capturing (a hard lesson to learn). But how can this be done easily and precisely? Or you can set your own custom sizes in the app’s configuration settings. MORE >>

Though, this directory combines freeware/open source and commercial tools, so we would need to do a bit of weeding and filtering to get some concrete numbers. 50 Web 2.0 Ways To Tell a Story 50 Ways to Tell The Dominoe Story SlideShare Presentation & Audio podcast (51.2 Mb MP3) Alan Levine's blog & CogDogBlog (About Instructional Technology) WHAT? It was not long ago that producing multimedia digital content required expensive equipment and technical expertise; we are at a point now where we can create compelling content with nothing more complex than a web browser. Yes!). JUICE? MORE >>

152kB, Freeware). Type: Freeware. Tags: baselsreplybasels reply sms auto response responder studytxt study text studytext mobile learning m-learning mlearning mobilelearning mobile-learning “mobile learning&# freeware education e-learning elearning educational technology revision teaching. I’ve previously blogged about StudyTXT , a system deployed at a number of New Zealand educational institutions (to whom it is available for free), which allows students to send an SMS and receive on-demand learning and support information on their mobile phones. Size: 152 KB. MORE >>