bfree

What is bFree?
• bFree is a tool for viewing, searching, and extracting Blackboard course content.
• A course is extracted and presented as an outline that reflects the actual organization of the course.
• bFree is a desktop application that operates on Blackboard archive (and export) zip files.
• bFree is free of charge and can be freely distributed.
Why should I use bFree?
• To convert your Blackboard course into a standalone web site.
• To share course materials with colleagues who do not have access to Blackboard.
• To have your course in a standard, portable format.
• To move your course materials from Blackboard to another online environment.

More details here: University of North Carolina

Alison.

ALISON is a free online learning resource for basic and essential workplace skills. ALISON provides high-quality, engaging, interactive multimedia courseware for certification and standards-based learning. All courses on ALISON are accessible for free to individual learners.
This is a high quality collection of resources including learning objects in these areas:

Digital Literacy & IT Skills
Enterprise & Business Skills
Financial & Economic Literacy
Health & Safety & Compliance
Health Literacy
Leadership & Management Training
Language Skills
Personal Development & Soft Skills
Teacher Training (Coming Soon)

Worth a visit, register for free.

Read The Words

A free online resource which creates MP3 files from your text documents. Post the content, and it will be converted to audio and emailed back to you.

You get a choice of voices, reading speeds etc. and some of them even sound quite human. Very functional for a freebie.

Top 100 Tools For Learning 2008

The list is compiled from the contributions of 155 learning professionals (from both education and workplace learning) who shared their Top 10 Tools for Learning both for their own personal learning/ productivity and for creating learning solutions for others.

Available as a list on the web, or as a downloadable PDF file.

AMP it up.

This piece of software looks interesting for the creation of multimedia items. You can incorporate video, audio, office components, documentation, scripts and just about anything that you can view in a browser.

Could be very useful for creating VLE content, and at £45 a year it looks like a snip.

JISC RSC Newsfeed Update

A very healthy update, with links to various tools, toolkits, resources, articles and accessibility tools.

Click on the image to go to the update.

 

Atomic Learning

 

 The college has access to the Atomic Learning site, which is a great tool for short video tutorials for teaching or CPD.

“Atomic Learning provides web-based software training and curriculum resources for more than 110 applications learners and educators use every day. Our just-in-time approach focuses on answering the common questions people have when learning popular software packages.

Atomic Learning provides thousands of short, easy-to-understand tutorial movies and a library of curriculum resources that can be used as an integral part of a professional development programme, a valuable curriculum supplement, and an anytime/anywhere software training resource.”

Have a look at the ‘Getting Started’ guide here.

For get login details for Atomic Learning, contact library or LTC staff. library@perth.uhi.ac.uk

donald.maclean@perth.uhi.ac.uk