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Learning Object Tools
  • Course Lab - A free easy-to-use,e-learning authoring tool that offers programming-free WYSIWYG environment for creating high-quality interactive e-learning content which can be published on the Internet, Learning Management Systems (LMS), CD-ROMS and other devices.
  • Hot Potatoes - A free (for public educators) downloadable software includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises.
  • Squido - A free service that allows user to publish a topical "lens" on their area of expertise. A lens is one person's view on a topic that matters to her. It's an easy-to-build, single web page that can point to blogs, favorite links, RSS feeds, Flickr photos, Google maps, your eBay auctions, CafePress designs, Amazon books or music, and oh so much more. That way, when someone is looking for recommended information, fast, your lens gets him started and sends him off in the right direction.
  • Timeline Tool - This free, downloadable software is a web based learning object template which allows an instructor to quickly construct an interactive timeline with audio and visual effects. See an overview of the tool here.
  • utudo - This is a free course builder that is template driven and allows you to customize a course, or smaller unit of instruction such as a module or unit. It can be used for tutorials on topics that students in different courses may need to learn.

Social Bookmarking
  • Blinklist - A free tool that provides annotation, metagging, and topic or name searches.
  • Carmun - Connects students who need advice, guidance, help with sources and ideas (and who doesn’t?) with those who’ve been down the same paths. carmun helps students easily organize their research. It also expands the boundaries of universities by creating a database of rated and reviewed sources.
  • Del.icio.us - A free tool that provides annotation, metagging, and topic or name searches.
  • Furl - A free tool that provides annotation and metagging, and topic or name searches.

Video edting
  • Cuts - Allows you to import video from other online sites and edit, insert footage, add captions, and add sound effects. To use home video, you must upload to another service (such as You Tube) first.
  • Eyespot - Offers same service as Cuts but allows you to add audio, and supports more file formats (vidoe - ASF, AVI, DivX, DV, FLV, MOV, MPEG, MPG, MP4, RM, WMV, 3GP, and 3G2; images -BMP, GIF, JPEG, JPG, PNG, and TIFF; audio - AAC, MP3, MP4, RM, WAV, and WMA ). Alos has special effects and allows you to download and special editing effects.
  • Jumpcut - An online editor that allows you to upload video (accepts .MPG, .MP4, .MOV, .FLV, .AVI, or .WMV format), audio, (.JPG, .BMP, .PNG, .GIF, or .TIFF) or still camera shots and edit to create a video. Videos can be stored and shared from Jumpcut or embedded in other website, has some special effects, and can be used to create Mashups.Offer the most editing tools.

Video casts - make your own
  • Ustream TV - A free service that offers live interactive video broadcast platform that enables anyone with a camera and an Internet connection to quickly and easily broadcast to a global audience of unlimited size.
  • Viddler - A free service to upload and publish videos to which viewers can insert comments.
  • Videojug - Anyone can post how-to or educational videos for free.
  • Vimeo -A free service to upload and publish videos with different topical channels and comments that appear with video.



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