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9 Free Tools That Help Me Build Better E-Learning

Rapid eLearning

If there’s a beta program or new software application, I’m quick to sign up and play around with it. For rapid elearning converting to the SWF and FLV Flash formats are important and Format Factory supports this. I mainly use it to convert FLV to other media for easy editing since I can’t find an easy FLV editor.

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How to Speak Like an eLearning Pro

OpenSesame

This is done by using ‘Flash Player’, a program available for free download from the Adobe website. Authoring Tools : While elearning development spans a wide range of technical knowledge, content authoring tools enable subject matter experts to create content without programming knowledge. The company was later acquired by Macromedia.

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Review of Snap! 1.1 Update

E-learning Uncovered

by Lectora – a PowerPoint authoring tool à la Articulate. I’d put about half of them in the keeping-up-with-the-Joneses category, meaning the addition of basic features that Articulate already has. Technically, a skilled programmer could probably get Articulate to do that by adding their own HTML or JavaScript, but Snap!

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Great FREE Software Downloads

The eLearning Coach

It works on all platforms and is probably the most popular free audio program around. To create a.pdf, just use the print command from the source program that the file was created in. Some say this email program from Mozilla is better than Outlook Express. This chat program gets rave reviews. FLV Player.

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Review of Snap! 1.1 Update

E-learning Uncovered

by Lectora – a PowerPoint authoring tool à la Articulate. I’d put about half of them in the keeping-up-with-the-Joneses category, meaning the addition of basic features that Articulate already has. Technically, a skilled programmer could probably get Articulate to do that by adding their own HTML or JavaScript, but Snap!

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Over 75 Free Rapid E-Learning Resources

Rapid eLearning

Preview Flash content on your computer: SWF Player and FLV Player [ original post ]. Check out the Articulate Guru entry. AlacrityPC : shut down unnecessary services and programs before you run a resource intensive application like multimedia authoring applications. NYC Articulate Jam Session on November 11.

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Reducing File Size for E-Learning Media

E-learning Uncovered

If you’re going to crop or resize significantly, it’s probably best to do it externally in a program like SnagIt or Gimp. An example of video file type is MPEG, RealVideo, FLV, etc. . Authoring tools let you crop and resize, but all the pixels are still saved within the file. You can also save the file in the right file format.