Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Joel Harband wrote a series of articles for my blog on Text-to-Speech in eLearning. Text-to-Speech Examples Text-to-Speech Costs – Licensing and Pricing But what I learned from this was that it was a fantastic way to learn about a topic where I was interested but didn’t have the time to spend researching it.

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eFront

DECEMBER 5, 2010

It is important that e-Learning professionals, researchers, experts, and learners have a common basis in order to communicate effectively. Leaning Circuits - ASTD Everyone has something to say about e-learning, but are we communicating in the same language? In my opinion the BEST e-Learning Glossary is the ASTDs.

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eFront

JULY 12, 2010

Before CSS3 we would need to work with images or javascript to produce a round box effect. Actually, there are dozens of wide spread techniques to produce the round corner effect (for example, check [link] ) – which by its turn is a clear signal that there is no perfect solution.

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eFront

JUNE 1, 2010

Previously you had to create 4 different courses to achieve this effect. Recent Comments Blog Archive ► 2011 (3) ► January (3) Free and Open Source Text to Speech Tools for e-Le. Consider a scenario in which you have a school with a physics course (which includes several lessons), separated in 4 different classrooms.

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Learning Visions

JUNE 9, 2009

My argument is that if the information is presented as 'real' conversation it is more believable, more engaging and ultimately more effective. With Speech-Over's text-to-speech engine, expert content can be read in as text, which is then spoken in the course by an "expert" TTS voice.

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eFront

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Some of them are your learners and they know how to use Facebook effectively! Recent Comments Blog Archive ► 2011 (3) ► January (3) Free and Open Source Text to Speech Tools for e-Le. 50% of Facebooks active users log on to Facebook in any given day. Average user is connected to 80 community pages, groups and events.

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eFront

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

> Resources Down-and-dirty Guidelines for Effective Discussions in Online Courses Joanna C. Dunlap Improving the Odds of Effective Collaborative Work in Online Courses Joanna C. Recent Comments Blog Archive ► 2011 (3) ► January (3) Free and Open Source Text to Speech Tools for e-Le. Dunlap Learning 2.0

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