News from the e-learning frontier Pages Home About Community Free e-Learning Resources Contribute to the e-Learning Community 10/24/2010 Free Stock Photos Sites for e-Learning As an e-Learning developer I had to invest a lot of time to find images for my e-Learning projects. As a result, I had to do a research and find the best FREE stock photo sites. You should be sure that the e-Learning community will very much appreciate if you write a comment with links to FREE stock photo sites. Turbo Photo Free stock images from 10 categories (3.4 by Christopher Pappas M.B.A., MORE >>

'Sometimes a PowerPoint presentation may be the majority of your course content. If that is the case, you want to be sure that you have the best PowerPoint you can. Big Stock Photo , iStockphoto , and Shutterstock are three great resources, full of quality images! Think about having a great PowerPoint design and useful content rather than adding fluff to your course. Don’t have PowerPoint? Online Training Software Tips and Tricks Build Your Course PowerPoint Don’t cram so much text onto a slide. Use meaningful images. Use less animation. MORE >>

Depending on the source, stock music can be expensive and in a climate in which it’s hard to get any purchases approved, it may be viewed as frivolous. Here are my top tips for finding and working with stock music. Sound effects bear a mention here, as well… Need I say more than “Remember the early days of PowerPoint”? But assuming you’ve determined that using some music is a good design decision for your project… Try stock photo sites you already use. lot of stock photo sites also have music and sound effects. Do you use music in your courses? MORE >>

blame it on PowerPoint. Some people might call me lazy but, for 99% of the drawing or photo editing projects I do, PowerPoint has everything I need to crank out a polished final product in no time flat. In fact, most of the images I create for my blog posts are done with nothing more than stock photos, free clip art & fonts, and a little creativity. Because PowerPoint’s drawing and picture tools are so quick and easy to use, I’ve found ways to creatively apply my skills to plenty of other life projects. Use PowerPoint to… 1. MORE >>

Yet, in the tradition of building bulleted lists in PowerPoint, text dominates many eLearning courses. Basic icons, images of people, and photos of everyday objects can be easily found in any stock image library. For instance, PowerPoint has options for flipping images, changing their color schemes, making their backgrounds transparent, adding shadows and depth, and probably other maneuvers I have yet to discover. In the absence of specialized software, PowerPoint also makes it easy to create diagrams by using their drawing tools and Smart Art function. By Shelley A. MORE >>