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Free eLearning Tools - DevLearn Morning Buzz Session
Posted Nov 5 2012 in DevLearn with 4 Comments
During the Morning Buzz that I hosted on Thursday of this year's conference, myself and the participants brainstorm and shared many of the free tools that we use within our design and development process.
Here is the listing of the tools that we complied as our favorite go to FREE resources.
Images
Microsoft Office Clipart, Photos, Animations
psdGraphics
stock.xchng
Flickr
Flickr Commons
Servier Medical Art
WikiMedia Commons
Your own photos
search for free - icons, backgrounds, clipart. Will result in many free CC to use items.
Editing Tools/Screen Capture
Gimp
Popcorn
Faststone
Windows features
Picasa
PowerPoint
Pixlr
Paint
Snagit ($)
Screenr
Jing
Windows Movie Maker
Audio Capture/Editing
Sound Recorder (within Windows)
Audicity
Soundforge
Captivate ($$$)
YakiToMe
Words to Time Calculator
Collaborative Tools
Sharepoint
Anymeeting
Google Docs
Collate Box
PBWorks
Join.me
Spring Pad
Skype
MS Send for Review
Delicious.com
Diigo
Facetime
Wikispaces
Dropbox
Evernote
Livescribe ($)
MS Lyncs ($)
Pearltrees
Voicethread
Mindmeister (collaborative online tools - Robin Good)
Wallwisher
Pinterest
Yahoo Groups
Slide Sharing (or a great information resource)
Prezi
SlideShare
Speaker Deck
SlideRocket
Other Favorites
Zoho
Pixie (color grabber)
Smartsheet (project management)
Trello (project management)
Kuler (color schemer)
MS Publisher($)
Color Schemer
Sizer
Fodey.com (newspaper clipping generator)
jRuler (virtual screen ruler)
Wunderlist (task listing)
Poll Everywhere (live polling)
Surveymonkey (survey tool)
Mailchimp (email champaign tool)
Animoto (video clips)
"Question
What kind of software and online services are research labs using for social collaboration, and project, knowledge and lab management?
There is a wide variety of cloud-based and locally installable software tools available for potentially enhancing the output of a research lab. These include (with examples): project management (Basecamp), wikis (Confluence), microblogging (Yammer), document management (Skydox), reference management (Mendeley), scientific collaboration platforms (colwiz), general online collaboration platforms (Zoho), e-notebooks (Labvantage), laboratory management systems (CambridgeSoft) and instant messaging (Skype).
We are currently looking to improve the way we work in our lab regarding communication and data management. Being an academic research unit of about 80 people studying nanophotonics, we are currently generating huge amounts of data on network drives and paper notebooks, and communicating in a semi-random fashion. Everyone is using their own tools. Clearly there is much room for improvement, or is there?
So, the question is, what kind of software services are other labs using? How did you identify the needs of the users, selected the tool and got everyone to use it?
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[Roi Paz]
Roi Paz · 4.8 · Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya
Our lab find Sparklix as our main e-notebook, wilki, project management, collaboration tool, document and files management.
They give unlimited space and it is for free.
Also shortly they will release an inventory system..
Check them our at http://www.sparklix.com/
7 minutes ago
[Antonio Badia]
Antonio Badia · University of Louisville
As far as I know, this is still a research area. Just handling all the data (generating metadata, annotating, classifying, making it available for search and browsing) is a huge challenge. I do not know of any *comprehensiv