A faculty approach -learning tools

▶ Audio Tools▶ Tutorial and

Presentation software▶ Video Tools▶ Authoring tools

Quizz tools Powerpoint 2 Flash Content tools Web 2.0 tools

RUFO Project

Work visit at Paris(July 2007)

Ramón Ovelar

Virtual Campus of theBasque Country

University

Audio tools

▶ Open source editor▶ Hosting files

Podomatic▶ Audio forums

VoiceThread Chinswing

Audio tools

▶ Functions Editing and mixing audio tracks quick and easy Optimizing the size of audio files Recording from a microphone or any other source Using effects

▶ Learning target Very intuitive interface Optimizing file size has a longer learning curve

▶ Downloading the installation file(multi-platform)http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/windows

▶ Also LAME library in order to export to MP3 (Samewindow as indicated in the picture)

Audacity workarea

▶ Podomatic▶ Radio educativa▶ Podcast

To create a podcastchannel

Audio forums

▶ Knowing each other in a learning community:http://www.chinswing.com/

Audio forums

http://voicethread.com/ (Adding a screen)

Tutorial and Presentationcreation software

▶ Moreinformation

▶ Download▶ Forum about

Wink.

Video Tools▶ Virtual Dub

Download http://www.virtualdub.org/download Forum about VirtualDub

▶ Windows Movie Maker / HomeVery easy tool

▶ Converters SUPER DVD2AVI Virtualdub mod with MPEG2(SVCD, DVD, VOB)

import support

Video broadcasting

▶ A firefox plug in

▶ Tutorial

Icon in theFirefoxbrowser

Video capture

Visual diagrams explaining relations betweenideas

Concept maps

Freemind Cmaptools

Example

Authoring tools

▶ Quizz tools▶ Powerpoint 2 Flash▶ Content tools▶ Web 2.0 tools

Quizzes: Hot potatoes

Similar tools

▶ Quizz makers: Quizmaker, QuestionMark, Qform, QuizCode

PPT 2 Flash

▶ OpenOffice can do it…▶ Powerbullet

▶ But commercial tools do much better… Flashspring, Articulate Presenter, PresentationPro

PowerConverter, PPT2SWF converter(económico), WonderShare,

▶ Web Site Creator / IMS / SCORM 1.2 NewZeland Open source project Funded by Tertiary Education Commission and

driven by Universidad de Aukland and Tairawhiti More info

Site http://exelearning.org/ Blog http://exelearning.blogspot.com/ Authoring tools comparative report (2005)

▶ Where to find it Download at http://exelearning.org/

http://eduforge.org/frs/?group_id=20 Install files for Windows, Mac and some linux

systems Optional installations of SCORM, Java Applet

and Flash Movie

▶ To whom it is targeted

Teachers who want to make web site and don´tknow HTML

Integrating multimedia content (mp3, swf,YouTube, Flickr)

English, can be translated

▶ Functions Units of content with intuitive sidebar navigation WYSIWYG Editor , with pasting function from

MsWord List of i-devices that can be dragged to work area

to be edited Different skins can be choosen (or created) CSS Exportation to IMS y SCORM 1.2 Dublin Core metadata form

▶ Herramientas similares (no open source) Lectora LessonBuilder Lersus

▶ An authoring tools from Extremadura EducationOffice (Spain) Local and server (+EasyPHP) A free and open repository More info http://atenex.educarex.es/

JClic, interaction

▶ JClic is a set of applications JClic (Runtime) JClic Constructor (Authoring tools) Examples, Tracking tool…

Allowing to build games ...▶ Funded by XTEC (Xarxa Telemàtica Educativa de Catalunya)

▶ More info:http://clic.xtec.cat/es/index.htm

▶ A tool for dinamic and interactivepresentations Developed by WebSoft Ltd., a Russian company More info at http://www.courselab.com/

Websoft CourseLab

▶ Dónde encontrarla download at:

http://www.courselab.com/db/cle/root_id/download/doc.html

Only for Windows Free but not open source Some add-ons are not free (screen casting,

powerpoint converter)

Websoft CourseLab

▶ Funcionalidades Corporate orientated templates An attempt to make easy some Flash functions An object library similar to powerpoint Publication for SCORM and CD English

Websoft CourseLab

CourseLab en Moodle

▶ XML editor for learning objects Funded by IS-Learning-Team of Nottingham

UNIVERSITY More infor:

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~cczjrt/Editor/index.phpXERTE - Free Visual Editor for SCORM compliant FlashLearning Objects

▶ Where to download Descarga (only for Windows) Versión 1.5 (updated 23/03/07)

▶ ¿To whom it is targeted? To users with JavaScript and ActionScript

knowledge that want to speed their production Users without this knowledge can use the tool but

outcomes will be much less flexible▶ English▶ Many examples for consultation (code

available)

▶ Learning objects tools Basque Country University Virtual Campus Faculty orientated More info

http://www.autore.ehu.es/AUTORe

▶ Learning objects tool Basque Country University Virtual Campus Faculty orientated More info

http://www.autore.ehu.es/AUTORe▶ Access

Will have an open licence (in process ) Online access

2 kind of usershttp://www.autore.ehu.es/conex/conex2.htm: User invitado: usuario:autore ; pass: autore Registrations at:

http://www.autore.ehu.es/conex/inscrip.htm

An online tool

More tools

▶ Zoho▶ gOFFICE▶ Empressr only presentations (no sharing)▶ Thumbstacks.com! More presentations▶ EditGrid spreadsheets▶ Numbler spreadsheets

Google Page Creator

Web 2.0 authoring: wiki▶ An authoring tool on a social and collaborative basis

to keep and nurture a collective bank of knowledge (history;open or restricted…)

To present students work To learn to write in a more creative way

▶ A site where to find info: Wikimatrix.org

Wiki with visual editor

Wikitext y HTML

Diagram online editor: Gliffy

▶ A web page that can beedited without HTMLknowledge

▶ Post are presented in achronological order

▶ Readers can makecomments on eachpost

▶ Tags can be added asmetadata in each post

¿What’s a blog?

Firefox add-on

Edublogs

▶ An easy and effective way forhaving a personal andinteactive web site

▶ As a place for activities,discussions, sharingideas public/private attractive for digital

natives▶ As a way of making evidence of “life

long” learning and working

Los blogs en el aula

http://fzayas.com/portal/tic/blogs_aula/mis_blogs.html

▶ A site where we cankeep bookmarksonline and class themwith tags

▶ A place where tosearch what otherusers with similarinterest arebookmarking

▶ A way to share andmake public what weare bookmarking

¿Del.icio.us?

Sindicating Del.icio.us tags

Ya se pueden verlas etiquetas deDel.icio.us en mi

blog

In my blog

Google Reader public page

Academic site

Academic site

Pictures

Presentations

SlideShare ¿Repository 2.0?

▶ User publishes in his own space▶ Many presentations formats: ppt, pps, odp

SlideShare ¿Repository 2.0?

▶ Others users can see and download(sometimes) these presentations

▶ Web 2.0 classification

SlideShare ¿Repository 2.0?

▶ We can publish this content in other pages(open content)