Free ebook - WINDOWS ON THE WORLD

Get a free ebook copy of the book written by Andrea White (former Houston mayor Bill White's wife).

WINDOWS ON THE WORLD is science fiction set in a post-apocalyptic world in which an orphan girl, Shama Katooee, is summoned to an elite military academy in order to travel back in time to New York City on September 11, 2001, to save the future.

 http://www.namelos.com/blog.php

Free learning community for managers

TalkingVillage Management is a free community allowing managers to learn from each other. You can join for free and post any content related to management education. Have a problem to solve? Just ask the community. Do you have a solution or an idea? Just post it for everyone to see!

 

Check it out:  http://mgmt.talkingvillage.com  or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu0NE8UsUqI

 

 

The Story of Bottled Water - In Honor of Earth Day

The Story of Bottled Water, released March 22, 2010 on storyofbottledwater.org, employs the Story of Stuff style to tell the story of manufactured demand—how you get Americans to buy more than half a billion bottles of water every week when it already flows from the tap. Over seven minutes, the film explores the bottled water industry’s attacks on tap water and its use of seductive, environmental-themed advertising to cover up the mountains of plastic waste it produces. The film concludes with a call to ‘take back the tap,’ not only by making a personal commitment to avoid bottled water, but by supporting investments in clean, available tap water for all.

Check it out:  http://storyofstuff.org/bottledwater/

Free PowerPoint to Flash Converter

iSpring Free lets you easily create web-ready Flash presentations preserving every aspect of your original PowerPoint content.       

Check it out:  http://free.ispringsolutions.com/free_powerpoint_to_flash_converter.html

PPT courses to the iPAD - Which way to go?

I recently experimented with various methods of getting a PPT course developed with Articulate Presenter to the iPAD.

HTML Articulate player from eLearning Enhanced: Works great. Just wish they had a quiz component (it's in the works). http://elearningenhanced.com/products/html-articulate-player

Flash on iPAD from iSwifter– works ok.  It executes the Flash content in its own data center and then sends video down the pipe to the user’s iPAD, which has to be connected to a Wi-Fi connection.  http://iswifter.youwebinc.com/     

PPT2Video from Wondershare – strip out all the Articulate elements and insert audio on the page.  Don’t try doing anything else while the program translates the file into video.  http://www.wondershare.com/pro/ppt-to-video.html     

mLearning Studio from Rapid Intake - Can't wait for this to come out! Like the idea of create once - and let the program decide how to display.  http://www.rapidintake.com/products/mobile/mobile-learning-studio/