April's Big Question from Learning Circuits is "How to Keep up?" This is in reference the immense and rapidly expanding technology tools. It is tough to stay on top of all the emerging tools. However, being involved in an e-learning community is a big help. For me it is a blog community and following many experts on Twitter. Not only am I often made aware of new tools, but also get opinions, tips, and examples of their use. MORE

VoiceThread — presentation videos with voice annotation. Knovio — enhance presentations with audio and video. Last week, we looked at the building blocks of technology-enabled learning , from elements like learning objectives that are common across all training formats to those that are specific to digital formats, like content authoring tools. MORE

You might find VoiceThreads interesting too – [link]. Podcast, There’s lots on Google about podcasting, and it’s easy enough to add an audio file to a blog post – here’s some information – [link]. The other day I wrote up a collection of information for a non-profit starting to get into social media. Thought I might as well share it more broadly. Blogs can be free – for example. MORE

Of course, you have several challenges: The students are geographically distributed and, therefore, using an audio-enabled online synchronous presentation room (such as Elluminate Live!) Welcome to Voicethread. Together you can make a series of audio comments on the images that everyone can hear and playback more than once. The power of this service becomes fantastic when you realize that students *and* instructors can both leave audio comments on the same image. MORE

Flowgram - If you've tried to use MSFT's Producer to marry up PPT with audio, notes, etc.then stop. This is maybe a less intimidating version of some of the functionality embedded in VoiceThread (below). You set up an account at VoiceThread and upload your video, or your pictures, and then either share the link or embed the video in your site. Oh wait, what about the ability to export your VoiceThread to something like say an iPod? MORE

VIDEO, AUDIO & IMAGE TOOLS. Audio. 21- EduGlogster 31- Voicethread 39- Animoto 58- Quizlet. It has been good to see the varied interest in the 10 Tools Challenge both on my blog and Twitter as well as on other social channels – so here are a few updates. 1 – In response to a number of requests I’m now collating the blogs of those who are taking part as an update on the introductory blog post - so that the posts can be shared more widely. MORE

Video / audio. Voicethread. link] (requires a VoiceThread Account). link] (requires a VoiceThread Account). I was asked recently to do a presentation about educational technology tools for online education. Before I rolled right into my Top 5 Favourite Tools, I made sure I spent some time encouraging my audience to consider the criteria for selecting the tools first. These are the criteria I use: Criteria 1. MORE

brainstorming: lots of wikis, blogs, social networking, audio/podcasts. Also listed: virtual worlds, videoconferencing, voicethreads, geotagging, cell phones, flip cameras, digital storytelling, portfolios, multimedia. Open source audio hardware [link]. These are my liveblogged notes from Alan Levine , Rachel Smith, and Cyprien Lomas’ webinar “ What’s On Your Horizon? &# about the 2009 Horizon Report. MORE

Users can record and edit audio with Audacity and it runs on most operating systems, including Mac OS X and Windows. Key features include recording through a microphone or mixer, digitizing recordings from tapes, audio editing, importing and exporting audio files, effects and quality adjustments. VoiceThread. VoiceThread is a tool for having discussions around media, such as a presentation, video or image. MORE

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Voicethread 4 Education » home. Wiki collection of resources and examples for using Voicethread for education purposes. tags: wiki , education , tools , voicethread , audio , k-12 , highered , profdev Also includes some best practices and professional development examples. MORE