Parleys Desktop Application

Parleys Desktop Application

Parleys is a software suite and hosting site that allows you to incoporate video/audio with PowerPoint slides.... this has been done before.  What is new and worthwhile here is that you can tag and comment on the presentations while they are playing and follow up users can read your tags and comments.

Parleys most likely will work well in the asynchronous online classrooms because it mimics a lecture and allows feedback, questions, comments, etc... exactly where they would appear in the lecture.  The program itself is also featured filled with layout configurations.

Currently in Beta.

Link to  an example of hosting: Comparing Java Web Frameworks

Embedded example, not as featured filled:

Benefits of Online Learning

Benefits of Online Learning.

All of us that are interested in online learning should know this by heart, but in case you do not.

http://www.worldwidelearn.com/elearning-essentials/elearning-benefits.htm

Embed IT

Embed IT

Have you always wanted to embed an office document, picture, or media file in a webpage and didn't know how?  Well Embed It will allow you to upload a file and it will generate the needed package and code to embed it into an LMS or Webpage.

http://embedit.in/

Best Online University

Best Universersities

This website contains links to tools, guides and resources. They list 100 tools sorted into several categories.

http://www.bestuniversities.com/blog/2009/how-to-create-your-own-online-course-100-tools-guides-and-resources/

1000's of E-Learning Tools

1000's of E-Learning Tools

Through a connection I made on Twitter I have been sharing tweets with a group of individuals working or interested in instructional design. The primary person in this group has her own website and connected through it she has 1000's of useful tools for e-learning.  She has nicely sorted all the tools into categories and you will probably learn a thing or two about types of tools and what they are called.

Categories include:

• Tools for creating, delivering and managing learning and performance support solutions
  
• Tools for managing your own learning and productivity, for sharing resources, as well as group collaboration
  

50 or 60 subcategories exist under the main two categories.

Learning Tools Directory

CUNY Graduate Center Ed Tech Program Wiki

http://itcp.gc.cuny.edu/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Check out each core group as they have posted 100's of ed tech, online learning, curriculum, etc.. type information that is useful for anyone in the area of educational technoloyg or instructional design.

A further links that stick out of the main link is http://bavatuesdays.com/  Jim Groom runs (I believe) the UMV Blogs http://umwblogs.org/ 

Curriculum Mapping

Here is a site that could help you curriculum map your programs to enhance their connectivity.

http://currmap.learningpt.org/about.htm

Web 2.0 and Education Article

Great article and discussion on Web 2.0 and its real cost and power in education.

http://www.techlearning.com/blogs.aspx?id=17010

Youtube EDU

Youtube recently launched thier education section.  This section sorts videos based on colleges and allows you to see what is the most popular.  It is a start and should be interesting and something to check on as it continues to grow.  I personally like the directory listen so I can see which colleges are participating and how much show.  This also could be a great resource for online courses and to supplement curriculum

http://www.youtube.com/edu?action_directory=1

Boxee - Impressive, but Limited

Boxee (http://www.boxee.tv) strives to bring all of your media entertainment into one location while also using social interaction to recommend new content.  This means that everything locally on your computer will be integrated into Boxee as well as internet sites like youtube.com cnn.com etc.. 

It currently is in its Alpha release, but has looks promising.  The one big flaw currently is its inability to bring content from Hulu.com into its interface.  Apparently Hulu doesn't want Boxee to pull its content at this time, so some key content will be missing.

For a quick video explaining Boxee - Provided by Boxee - See below.

quick intro to boxee from boxee on Vimeo.