Wild and Wacky Friday: Online Course Helps Students Master the Rules of the Road

The most common distractions cited by DriversEd.com students are talking, yelling, arguing, and goofing off. DriversEd.com teaches teens to become competent licensed drivers. The interactive online course allows teens to take their drivers ed at their own pace on their own schedule.

Check it out:  http://driversed.com/games/drivers-ed-game.aspx

Traffic school courses - http://driversed.com/courses/traffic-school/traffic-school-course-demo.aspx?navtr=topnav

Free: PowerPoint to Flash in One Click

Free PowerPoint to Flash converter promptly creates web-friendly Flash (.SWF) movies from your PowerPoint content (.PPT, .PPS, .PPTX, .PPSX) keeping its visual parameters, animation effects and slide transitions, audio narrations, video and Flash objects after conversion.

iSpring Free works within PowerPoint, transforming it into a fast and easy Flash authoring tool. It is compatible with any PowerPoint version 2000/XP/2003/2007 installed on a Windows machine. To create Flash files viewable on any device from your PowerPoint presentations, just install iSpring Free, open your PowerPoint presentation, click Quick Publish and get Flash slideshows from your PPT presentations in just a few seconds.
One interesting option is adding YouTube movies into your presentation. The Presenter version of the product includes SCORM/AICC and quizmaking components - costs $399.


Check it out:  http://www.ispringsolutions.com/products/ispring_free.html

Envato Marketplaces

The Envato Marketplaces allow anyone to buy or sell digital goods like WordPress themes, stock audio, After Effects project files, Flash templates and much more. The marketplaces are home to a thriving community of over 240,000 users, authors and buyers and everyday hundreds of new files are added.


Check it out: 
HTML templates:  http://themeforest.net/
Flash Components:  http://activeden.net/
Music and Audio:  http://audiojungle.net/
After Effects:  http://videohive.net/
PhotoShop and Vectores:  http://graphicriver.net/
 

Search Is A Learning Activity

When a team of Pennsylvania State University researchers set out to discover the cognitive processes underlying search behavior, the team discovered that Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and other search engines have become part of the learning process for people who venture online.


Check it out:  http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=118064

http://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/abs/10.2200/S00191ED1V01Y200904ICR006?journalCode=icr

http://ist.psu.edu/faculty_pages/jjansen/webanalytics/understanding_web_analytics.html

http://jimjansen.blogspot.com/2009/08/latest-search-engine-research-that.html

GPS Academy

Do you feel like you need to learn more about how a GPS works, or how to use a GPS unit on the road? Get back to school and brush up on the latest in GPS. Interactive tutorials in the form of detention, Driver's Ed and quizzes make learning fun.

Check it out:  http://www8.garmin.com/gpsacademy/
 
Short video clips offer expert tips and step-by-step instructions on how to use your gps device.

Check it out:  http://www8.garmin.com/learningcenter/training/index.html

Free e-Learning Additions: History

Jeffery Goldman (MinuteBio) has added a new section to his free e-Learning category.

Check it out:  http://minutebio.com/blog/2009/11/28/free-e-learning-additions/