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Adobe Captivate 6 is"a solution which can help you track how learners have been interacting with your Adobe Captivate courses. It gives you insight on aspects such as: how much time learners are spending on slide which interactive items they are interacting with how much time they are away from slide, on which slide they are dropping out of the course how many times they are visiting a slide how they have been performing on the quiz." Sounds like a useful program to have.

"Spark for Education is a free service that Adobe has launched to address the concerns that schools have had about Spark since it's launch a few years ago. The biggest of those concerns being use by students under the age of 13. Spark for Education is designed for school-wide deployment (much like G Suite for Education) in a manner that is COPPA compliant. The school will be able to manage student and teacher use of Spark including access to the service itself. Additionally, Spark for Education will provide students and teachers with free access to all of premium features of Adobe Spark." T/h to R. Byrne

"Knowmia Teach http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/teach/id527216211?mt=8 Free; Designed specifically for teachers; Integrates directly into Knowmia.com (publish a lesson with the push of a single button); Organize lessons with steps/slides; Draw using shapes, multiple pens (with your finger), text tools, laser pointer and much more; Animate graphic elements on the screen by using two fingers (moving, scaling and rotating them); Integrate videos as part of a lesson (coming soon); The only iPad tool to allow face recording while capturing a lesson (coming soon); Imports images, drawings, and Adobe Acrobat files (coming soon); Integrates with Dropbox, Google Drive, Box.net and Gmail for transferring files (coming soon)" $2.99 Great tool for the iPad; see more info at the iTunes store.

Links to Nik Peachey's "Developing materials and practices for the digital generation," a webinar presentation for the IATEFL Young Learner SIG. Nik focses on how teacher can combine online tools to encourage students' digital literacy and linguistic skills more autonomously. Both a recording of the presentation (Adobe Connect) and the slides are linked, as well as links to some of his recent informative blog posts.

"With PDFVue you can upload any document from any computer without having to have expensive client software. Once you've made your changes you can simply download the updated PDF or share the secure PDFVue link." This looks like an incredibly useful tool that avoids the expense of the Adobe program -- plus, you can share documents at the site from your desktop.

Web 2.0 Tools for EFL ESL Teachers This has been a pretty busy week for me, mainly because I delivered my first online technology training presentation (8th September 2009) using the Adobe Connect Pro platform. I have to thank Jürgen Wagner and Verena Heckmann, e-learning specialists at the Landesinstitut für Pädagogik and Medien in Saarbrücken Germany, for offering me this opportunity to get online and promote and share some of the technological tools and activities I believe can be so helpful to EFL and ESL teachers.

"Adobe Photoshop is any serious photographer or graphic designer's application of choice but you'll have to cough up quite a lot of bills to get it. Another solution is to use Photofiltre, a lesser known and more basic yet free and solid image editing application." User reviews are excellent on this FREE product.

A great way to choose and create custom colors for your website or illustrations.Students could use this with Graphic Converter or other drawing program to create or touch up images.