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Seven Things I Learned This Year

Tony Karrer

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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How eBook Reader Devices are Changing the Publishing Industry

Kitaboo

They also offer adjustable font size, brightness, contrast, orientation, bookmarks, annotations, dictionaries, text-to-speech, audiobooks, and more. Interact with the content and the author using features such as bookmarks, annotations, dictionaries, text-to-speech, audiobooks, etc.

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions 2011 #LCBQ

Tony Karrer

The availability of cost-effective resources to facilitate wide collaboration (including open source software that enables wikis, discussion groups, chat and even web conferencing) presents the chance for organizations to reconsider the effectiveness of the performance support being offered to their people. Here's what came up.

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Voice-Over in eLearning

The Learning Circuits

Joel Harband has been teaching me all about Using Text-to-Speech in eLearning. The comment was: Even the best Text-to-Speech can only do one thing - receive text and spit it back out. The most sophisticated text-to-speech cannot approach a real voice person for e-learning. How do you do it right?

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e-Learning Glossaries

eFront

It is important that e-Learning professionals, researchers, experts, and learners have a common basis in order to communicate effectively. Recent Comments Blog Archive ► 2011 (3) ► January (3) Free and Open Source Text to Speech Tools for e-Le. In other words, they need to “speak the same language&#.

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Building an advanced eFront theme using CSS3 elements

eFront

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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Course-instances on eFront 3.6.3

eFront

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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