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10 Great Moments in eLearning History

SHIFT eLearning

A major breakthrough took place in 1984 when Apple''s Macintosh computer was introduced. But it wasn''t until 2004 that the term took wing when pen-source advocate Tim O''Reilly promoted the idea at the O''Reilly Media Conference. 2005: The Rise of Flash Video. Developers who worked with it discovered just how flexible Flash is.

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“Current Need-to-Know Tools and What’s Around the Corner” Nick Floro #olconf

Learning Visions

Stop creating in Flash. www.apple.com/designed-by-apple/ (Nick shared a really nice video done by apple about design and intention. HTML5 – explore that. Sketch – prototype with pen and paper. We all have amazing video cameras in our phones. Get a tripod – capture real video in the moment and get it out there.

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7 Technical Tips for Creating Video Lectures

eLearning Brothers

For some reasonable cutting, joining and tweaking, feel free to try Microsoft Movie Maker, Apple iMovie, Avidemux or any other tools with similar functionality. Be careful with Flash – you may get in real trouble on Apple gadgets. HTML5 is always a smarter choice for conversion. Do you need extra effects? In conclusion.

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The Latest: Rapid Content Authoring Tool Market

eLearning 24-7

Some vendors push heavily on PPT, implying that a great WBT is really a PPT converted to Flash. Flash output – still red hot. The latter is slowly gaining speed, which is an advantage to LMS vendors who have a CAT in their own product – which is SCORM,PENS/IMS compliant. Here is a news flash: It’s not true.

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5 E-Learning Forecasts for 2012

eLearning 24-7

In the past year: Apple has filed a patent for 3D Kinect experience using touch free gesturing. Another Apple patent includes allowing users via touch free gesturing to move content from one device to another (example from your iPad to your television). HTML5 support – sorry Flash fans . M-Commerce. Peer review.

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Top 10 Quiz Makers for Teachers and Educators

DigitalChalk eLearning

Some HTML5 quiz makers are built in order to develop online content and may even grade the questions for you, whilst others generate a printable version. Create interactive HTML5 quizzes and surveys using different question types, multimedia, styles and informational slides and publish created tests for the Web, an LMS, or Microsoft Word.

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Top 75 eLearning Posts - May 2010

eLearning Learning Posts

Learnlets , May 10, 2010 In response to a query about why someone would question the concept of the LMS, I penned the (slightly altered, for clarity) response that follows: What seems to me to be the need is to have a unified performer-facing environment. Today the big news is Scribd Switches to HTML5; Adobe To Make Tools for HTML5.