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searched for information on different multimedia tools and found the following at mediabistro ( [] ). The site lists seven essential multimedia tools and their free alternatives. Here are the highlights:

PHOTO EDITING: Adobe Photoshop Free: [|Splashup]

WEB DESIGN: Adobe Dreamweaver Free: [|KompoZer]

VIDEO: Final Cut, Adobe Premiere Free: [|iMovie], [|JayCut]

AUDIO: ProTools, Adobe Audition Free: [|Audacity], [|GarageBand]

SLIDESHOWS: Soundslides Free: [|PhotoPeach]

INTERACTIVE MEDIA: Adobe Flash Free: [|Effect Generator]

WORD PROCESSING: Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

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Free: [|Google Docs]

If there good funding available I would recommend investigating Raptivity or Adobe Captivate for creating interactions and showing screen or key capture sequences. Both offer free trial versions. Raptivity has many predefined templates that can be used for questions. Adobe’s Creative Suite 5 bundle of applications (Photoshop CS5, Acrobat, InDesign CS5, Illustrator CS5, Flash CS5) offers many other options, but is more expensive and requires higher skill levels.

The technology corner is an optional enrichment experience for you in this course. It will provide brief reviews, annotations and links to various “low-threshold” technologies that may be useful to you now or in the future. This part of the course is not graded. In this unit’s technology corner we will be looking at free screencasting tools. Screencasting is the ability to capture images and movements on your screen and narrate it with audio. It is basically a movie that you create from what is happening on your [|Jing] Jing is a tool made available by TechSmith, the makers of the popular education tools Camtasia and Snag-it. Jing is a free desktop application that allows you to make short 5-minute screencasts that can either be saved to your hard drive or uploaded to Jing’s hosted site, screencast.com. Jing has a free version and an enhanced “pro” version. [|Screenr] Screenr is a free web-based (java applications) that allow you to create short 5-minute screencasts. You can save the movies to your hard drive or uploaded to screenr’s free hosted service. Screenr also has built in support for Twitter.

Kerr, B., & Belcher, D. (n.d.). //Creating reusable learning objects with PowerPoint 2003: A visual learning journey //. Available at:

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Low Threshold Technologies The TLT Group [|http://www.tltgroup.org/resources/rltas.html] E-Learning Stephen Downes [|http://www.elearnmag.org/subpage.cfm?section=articles&article=29-1] 



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<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">These sites are not articles but are collections of interesting tools for teachers: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Free Technology for Teachers: [|http://www.freetech4teachers.com/] Focused more on K-12 teachers, but there are great resources here. Search the blog for interesting ideas and tools. [] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Jane Hart’s Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies: [|http://c4lpt.co.uk/Directory/index.html] (Also Jane posts regularly to her “Jane’s Pick of the Day” blog: [|http://janeknight.typepad.com/pick/] ) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Alan Levine’s 50+ Ways to Tell a Story: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> [|http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/50+Ways]. Good examination of Web 2.0 Tools. (Here is an example of one short story told fifty different ways: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #3366ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">[|http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/Dominoe+50+Ways] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> Guided Questions:

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