1. HSLG E-LIBRARY MANAGEMENT WORKSHOP, TCD, MAY 10 th 2012 ELEARNING TOOLS & APPLICATIONS MICHELLE DALTON, HSE MID-WEST LIBRARY SERVICES, UL HTTP://LIBFOCUS.BLOGSPOT.COM

2. WHAT IS ELEARNING?

3. WHAT SORT OF CONTENT? SCREENCASTS PODCASTS & OTHER AUDIO VIDEOS STORYTELLING / ANIMATED CLIPS ONLINE TESTS, QUIZZES & OTHER INTERACTIONS DISCUSSION FORUMS & SOCIAL MEDIA

4. WHY INCORPORATE ELEARNING TOOLS? REACH NEW USERS CAN BE USED REMOTELY JUST IN TIME DELIVERY COST & TIME EFFICIENT ADVANTAGES OF A BLENDED LEARNING APPROACH FACE TO FACE SELF-PACED (ONLINE) SOCIAL (ONLINE)

5. PLANNING PHASES USER NEEDS & LEARNING OBJECTIVES INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN APPROACHES DEVELOPMENT & IMPLEMENTATION (I.T. ISSUES, EQUIPMENT, HOSTING ETC) EVALUATION

6. AUDIO-VISUAL TOOLS

7. CAMTASIA Screencasting and video solution CAPTIVATE (Adobe) & ARTICULATE Complete elearning authoring suites. Create interactive content, screencasts, podcasts and convert ppt presentations to flash RAPTIVITY Pre-built templates for creating interactive content (Flash cards, picture shows, rollover word definitions etc.) COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS & SOLUTIONS

8. ‘FREE’ SOLUTIONS FOR VIDEO CAMSTUDIO Screencasting solution (like a free version of Camtasia) SCREENR & SCREENCAST-O-MATIC Screencasting apps ideal for tutorials and demonstrations XTRANORMAL Create animated storytelling clips and videos using online characters SOFTWARE WEB APPS

9. SCREENCAST MADE USING SCREENCAST-O-MATIC

10. SCREENR WWW.SCREENR.COM

11. VERY EASY TO USE - JUST LOG-IN WITH A SOCIAL MEDIA A/C HOST ON SCREENR, YOUTUBE OR DOWNLOAD MP4 FILES EACH SCREENCAST IS LIMITED TO 5 MINUTES NO EDITING (HAVE TO RE-RECORD ENTIRE VIDEO) CAN’T RECORD AUDIO & VISUALS SEPARATELY SCREENR WWW.SCREENR.COM

12. SCREENCAST-O-MATIC WWW.SCREENCAST-O-MATIC.COM

13. SCREENCAST-O-MATIC ADVANCED EDITING TOOLS

14. LIMITED FREE VERSION (15 MIN MAX, NO EDITING) PRO VERSION $12 RECORD AUDIO SCRIPT FIRST IN STAGES, THEN ADD VISUALS ADD/REMOVE SILENCE & TRANSITION/FADE BETWEEN SECTIONS SCREENCAST-O-MATIC WWW.SCREENCAST-O-MATIC.COM

15. CAMSTUDIO WWW.CAMSTUDIO.ORG

16. RECORD ALL SCREEN & AUDIO ACTIVITY AS AVI VIDEO FILES BUILT-IN SWF PRODUCER CONVERTS AVIS INTO FLASH VIDEOS CAN ADD SCREEN CAPTIONS STEEPER LEARNING CURVE NO CLOUD STORAGE CAMSTUDIO WWW.CAMSTUDIO.ORG

17. AUDACITY Excellent for long podcasts, sophisticated editing & enhancing audio files WINDOWS SOUND RECORDER Very basic, no editing functionality, only good for very short sound files AUDIOBOO Record & share audio through your web browser or mobile phone ‘FREE’ SOLUTIONS FOR AUDIO SOFTWARE WEB APPS

18. WINDOWS SOUND RECORDER ACCESSORIES > ENTERTAINMENT

19. AUDACITY HTTP://AUDACITY.SOUNDFORGE.NET

20. WORKS WITH WINDOWS & MAC O.S. RECORD LIVE AUDIO & CONVERT FILES EASILY CUT, COPY, MIX & OVERLAY SOUNDS REMOVE STATIC & BACKGROUND NOISE FROM RECORDINGS A BIT MORE COMPLICATED TO LEARN & NO CLOUD STORAGE HTTP://AUDACITY.SOUNDFORGE.NET AUDACITY

21. AUDIOBOO HTTP://WWW.AUDIOBOO.FM

22. AUDIOBOO HTTP://WWW.AUDIOBOO.FM

23. PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER

24. THINK HOW WILL YOU INTEGRATE THE CONTENT

25. EMBEDDED SCREENCASTS NAVIGATION EXAMPLE OF A ‘FINISHED PRODUCT’

26. FINAL TIPS KEEP IT SIMPLE KEEP IT SHORT THINK RELEVANCE; THINK CONTEXT REMEMBER YOUR LEARNING OBJECTIVES & OUTCOMES INTEGRATE & EMBED IT (E.G. WITH AN EXISTING CPD PLATFORM) KEEP IT UP TO DATE (THINGS CHANGE QUICKLY)

27. DON’T WASTE YOUR TIME: http://www.dontwasteyourtime.co.uk/ ELEARNING STUFF: http://elearningstuff.net/ ELEARNING LEARNING: http://www.elearninglearning.com/ E-LIME: http://mededelearning.wordpress.com C4LPT: http://c4lpt.co.uk/ MAKE USE OF DIRECTORY: http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/ FURTHER IDEAS & RESOURCES

28. QUESTIONS? ELEARNING TOOLS & APPLICATIONS MICHELLE.DALTON@UL.IE | HTTP://LIBFOCUS.BLOGSPOT.COM