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Open source software can be used as we wish, without long-term commitments and with a community of professionals that extend and support them. This post is a post of the series "Free e-Learning Resources" and I am going to talk about free and open source text-to-speech tools for e-Learning.

The software on this page either captures digital still shots of what is on the screen or captures what you are doing on your screen as a movie (great for making instructions for people). Some do both!

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The open online learning on the internet's Web 2.0, as the printing press did at the start of the first Renaissance period in 1450, will make world class self-motivated learning affordable for all. It will be delivered in a 'just-in-time' mode, being completed at the place of our choosing, at a speed appropriate to our learning abilities and preference (visual, auditory, reading/writing or tactile) and in accordance with our situation and need.

GenNET Online Learning provides students with a wide range of teacher-led courses, teacher-facilitated courses, and self-directed classroom tools delivered over the Internet.

Our mission is advance digital learning in every classroom, in every school, in every state in America to better prepare students for college and careers. Technology has changed the way we live, work and play. But it has yet to transform the way we learn.

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Learning object repository in KY. "About" contains great PPT/Flash explanation of how a learning object repository works. 30 day guest membership available

Application lets you joing an online meeting from smartphone /tablet/whatever. We have been talking about web conferencing/meeting/learning in the Let's Talk Technology group for the past 2 months. Ran across this in the Android Marketplace today. Reviewers love it but seems to need 4G to work - something to watch in the future.

Presentation on Evaluating sources for research

We looked at this online,

Crowd soruced notes from the ending Keynote of MACUL 2010 Looking forward to MACUL 2011!!!!!

Looks awesome...and free! Anyone familiar with this? "TRAILS is a knowledge assessment with multiple-choice questions targeting a variety of information literacy skills based on 3rd, 6th, 9th, and 12th grade standards. This Web-based system was developed to provide an easily accessible and flexible tool for school librarians and teachers to identify strengths and weaknesses in the information-seeking skills of their students. There is no charge for using TRAILS."

Free Info Literacy assessment

Blogging tool built specifically for teachers and students, with simple publishing, management, security, and control of content. Teachers can setup up multiple blogs for students without e-mail addressed. This would be a great tool for those teachers not yet blogging, but looking to get started in a simple, safe environment.

"ImgOps is a meta-tool that lets you quickly apply many online image utilities to an image. " enter the url of an image and you can edit, add effects, convert format and other stuff. You can also add their bookmarklet or just insert http://imgops.com/ in front of an image's url

Larry Falazzo's blog page has extensive list of sites for free images to use in blogs and school proijects.

Story from PRI's "The World" radio program

I actually have a contact through my grad program with a gentlemen who works expressly with schools in South Africa that use mobile phones for education. He has been spear-heading a program through Sprint, where they get old refurbished phones for use in South African schools. I guess what I'm saying is, if anyone wants to connect with him or schools down there, let me know, and I'll hook you up :)

Growing library of online course content for higher education, high school and Advanced Placement.

according to About all images are public domain! Has some art not found at Microsoft