PowerPoint – Ability to integrate or use PPT in your courses. Some vendors push heavily on PPT, implying that a great WBT is really a PPT converted to Flash. Lots of royalty free stock photo options here – you still have to buy the license mind you, but you can find truly “free” without giving credit to anyone and add it. The Kindle Fire, Barnes and Noble’s version are still heavy e-book driven. MORE

Audacity is a free, open-source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds. Quickly add photos and footage from your PC or camera into Movie Maker. With the newest versions of PowerPoint, you can easily create animated presentations with graphics and voice, as well as creating simple PowerPoint presentations. Find a great selection of free PPT templates that are guaranteed to work with your PowerPoint application. MORE

I capture all of their comments, make revisions, and send out an updated version. Photo credits: Exhausted by waffler Lasso by willac Guerrilla by bartleby78 Newborn baby by platinumblondelife5 Posted by Cammy Bean at 3:07 PM Labels: e-learning , instructional design , software training 11comments: Kiosco Salo Concepción said. Ive done some wireframes in PPT, but I keep coming back to Word. MORE

This manufacturing process training course was originally delivered as a four hour plus death-by-PowerPoint classroom session (if you could see the original PPT source content, youd begin glazing over within a few slides). When reviewing the alpha version of the course, I made sure to have their team have actual end-users take the course and see what their responses were. I tried, but couldnt convince my client to go with open navigation. MORE

per month): Access to photo and element library, fonts, and priority support. With Canva you get access to a huge amount of assets: 2 million photos, 500,000 illustrations and icons, 20,000+ templates, 500+ fonts and so on. Google Slides is Google’s version of PowerPoint. MORE

Hence: Below are products that are either open source free or free or free with limited functionality. Open Meetings - based on Google code. Meetings24.tv - free up to 24 users, limited features in the freebie version, other options available but are fee based. SlideLive - upload a ppt and away u go, targets Academia - SAAS. If you want more power, have to purchase Pro version. Bosco’s Screen Share - just a screen share program, open source. MORE

Note : The vintage photos in this post are from training conferences circa 2000. It’s a BarCamp, the Open Source Version of a Conference. Giving a presentation is open to anyone, and encouraged! Response 27 cut down on opening addresses of powerful, but boring speakers. Conference planners do a disservice when they don’t facilitate ice breakers and open discussions. MORE