Category Archives: learning

 Whether you just got a new computer for Christmas or your just looking for some specific software, here’s a good list of the best free software for Windows. I can personally vouch for most of these. My favorite is probably Picasa, which really makes managing all your digital photos a snap. Happy New Year! TheContinueContinue reading “The Best Free Software for Windows”

http://clive-shepherd.blogspot.com/2007/04/e-learning-and-science-of-instruction.html Use of media Use words and graphics rather than words alone (89% gain in learning). Keep graphics and text that relate to each other near each other (68% gain). Where possible, describe graphics using audio narration rather than text (80% gain). An exception here would be text (unfamiliar terms, instructions, etc.) which require timeContinueContinue reading “Clive on Learning: e-Learning and the Science of Instruction”

 Via Webworker daily I see that Microsoft now has a beta of SharedView. My 1st question is how is this better/different than NetMeeting? Other than aesthetics, etc? Yes, it looks nicer but it actually takes extra steps to get someone into Sharedview as compared to NetMeeting. Am I missing something? If you don’t already useContinueContinue reading “Sharedview: New take on NetMeeting?”

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This should keep everyone busy for awhile. Need to do something online? Here’s a good first place to look via Mashable.com 5000+ Resources to Do Just About Anything Online

This is embedded via Splashcast – another presentation type service that handles, audio, photos, documents, recordings, etc. A little more robust that others. [splashcast MUHB5495FC]

This is one of those things that I’ve always known was possible but just assumed was too difficult or would take way too long to figure out how to do in Photoshop. Today someone asked me if I knew how to remove a background from a photo and I remembered that Tom Kuhlmann’s recent article mentioned thisContinueContinue reading “Removing a Picture from it’s Background using extract in Photoshop”

I want to add this to my “To Do” list. This looks like a good example of integrating a wiki into a self-paced learning project. And the topic is Open Learning which is a great topic to boot! ;-)   Intro Open Ed Syllabus – OpenContent Wiki