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Online Learning Toolkit

This toolkit was developed to provide resources and tools for librarians who are engaged in online learning efforts at their institution, whether in full course management systems or as stand-alone tools to incorporate into web pages or instruction sessio

Mashups

Mashups (or, Remixing learning objects in various formats into something new)

  • Animoto: Turn photos into movies with your music.
  • Ed.VoiceThread: It's a web-based communications network for K-12 students and educators. Simple, powerful and safe, Ed.VoiceThread is a place for creating and collaborating on digital stories and documentaries, practicing and documenting language skills, exploring geography and culture, solving math problems, or simply finding and honing student voices.
  • GLO Maker 2: is an authoring tool for creating media rich learning objects. Learning designs are expressed explicitly in the tool and provide the framework for creating new learning objects. The learning objects can be accessed from the Web or the desktop.
  • One True Media Photo Sharing: A way to mashup photos, videos, narration, music to create a video.
  • Slideshare: Share your slideshow with the world or for a private audience.
  • SoftChalk Lesson Builder: a web lesson editor that lets you easily create engaging, interactive web lessons. With LessonBuilder, you can create professional-looking, interactive content without knowing any HTML, or programming.
  • Splashcast: A media syndication service that enables anyone to create streaming media channels (combining audio, video, photos, text, and RSS feeds) and broadcast them live on any web page or blog.
  • Voice Thread: Presentation slide show that you can add your voice and draw on it too!
  • Wordle: a tool for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.

Resources

  • Lamb, B. (2007). Dr. Mashup; or, Why educators should learn to stop worrying and love the remix. EDUCAUSE Review, 42(4), 12-25.