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ASTD Alaska

!   Facilitator/presenter: Mary M Rydesky

!   Participants: all attendees who wish to share their experience with any of these tools

!   Open session: have suggestions? We will hold a round-robin to get additional suggestions!

ConvertCase http://www.convertcase.net/

Text2Speech www.text2speech.org

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FlamingText http://www.flamingtext.com/

CoolText http://cooltext.com/

Prezi www.prezi.com

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Storybird www.storybird.com

TinyChat https://tinychat.com An in-browser audio/video /IM chat & whiteboard

BrainShark www.brainshark.com www.mybrainshark.com

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FillAnyPDF www.fillanypdf.com

Show me how

VisualBee www.visualbee.com

YawnBusters www.yawnbuster.com

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Wordle www.wordle.net

Sample - Dark

Tagxedo www.tagxedo.com

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Weebly www.weebly.org http://www.weebly.com/weebly/main.php http://myaste2012.weebly.com/

Power Point Wonders !   F5 Start slide show from

beginning

!   Shift F5 starts slide show from the current slide

!   N advances to next slide

!   P returns to previous slide

!   Go to any slide by hitting number and enter

!   Highlight box then right/left arrow will move

!   Highlight box/pix then control/arrow will nudge

!   Shift arrow - resize a box or object

!   Shift and mouse click to select objects in a row

!   Control mouse click to select several object NOT in a row

!   B blacks or W whites out the screen so viewers are not reading

!   Up arrow – replays animation in a slide

!   Down arrow - starts the animation process

Cautionary Notes

!   Yes, try these at home

!   Limit self to 3 choices to prevent gorging

!   Book mark the one(s) you will use again

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Comments

!   What do you use often?

!   Presented item(s) you intend to use are?

!   Want to do this again for, say, mLearning?

Comments

!   What do you use often? !   Audacity !   GIMP !   PrimoPdf !   PDF Creator !   SnagIt & Grab !   Jing !   EyeJot !   PureText !   DropBox !   FreeMind (minmapping)

!   New to Try !   WordFoto !   WordCounter !   Similarsitesearch.com

Suggestions made by participants during the ASTD Alaska meeting – take a look!

Choices

!   Presented item(s) you intend to use are? !   BrainShark !   VisualBee !   FillAnyPDF !   TinyChat !   Storybird !   Wordle/Tagxedo

!   Want to do this again for, say, mLearning?

!   Yes but maybe audio & video (not ready for mLearning!)

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Thank You mrydesky@yahoo.com www.transitionmanagement.us www.akdistancelearning.net

Mary M Rydesky 907-227-2393