View and show PPTs on iPAD via free app

SlideShark is a free app that allows mobile professionals & educators to view and show PowerPoint® presentations on the iPad®.

If you're an iPad user, you may have noticed that there isn't a PowerPoint or Microsoft® Office app for viewing PowerPoint files available in the App Store. In their absence, mobile professionals & educators have had to come up with "workarounds" that end up falling short.  With SlideShark, you can easily and reliably convert PowerPoint into a high fidelity iPad-optimized format that keeps animations, fonts, colors, and graphics intact. That way you can view and show PowerPoints on the iPad the way they were meant to be seen.

Check it out:  https://www.slideshark.com/default.aspx

16 Free Tools to Create Media for Learning

October 26th, 1:00pm ET
Space is Limited
Reserve Your Webinar Seat Now At:
http://www.rapidintake.com/free-tools/

As a training developer, you're no stranger to budget cuts. Companies everywhere are turning to e-learning and mobile learning as a solution to improve performance while cutting costs. But how do you create engaging, high-quality content for your online training courses? How can you make simple adjustments to images and recordings without having to spend thousands of dollars on a suite of products?

In this complimentary webinar, learn about 16 different free tools that can help you with your media creation and revision. Edit videos and vector graphics, mix audio tracks, sharpen your images, and record tutorials; all without spending a dime. Tools covered will include:

• JayCut
• Video Spin
• The Aviary Suite of Tools
• Audacity
• GIMP
• Jing
• Kuler
• Inkscape
• More

The presenter will show all 16 tools and give a brief description on how they can be leveraged to create professional-quality assets for your online training courses.

Monthly free e-book from The University of Chicago Press

About once per month, The University of Chicago Press offers a free e-book. This month's book is "Revel with a Cause: Liberal Satire in Postwar America".  "Before there was Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, or Bill Maher, there were Mort Sahl, Stan Freberg, and Lenny Bruce—liberal satirists who, through their wry and scabrous comedic routines, waged war against the political ironies, contradictions, and hypocrisies of their times. Revel with a Cause is their story."

Enter your e-mail address and click "Get E-book." You will receive an e-mail confirmation with a link to download your free e-book, as well as a link to Adobe’s Digital Editions software, used to display the book.  Once you get the e-mail, click the link in your device to load.

Please note: iPhone, iPod, and iPad readers: You will NOT need Flash. Please visit the download link on your iOS device in Safari. You will be able to open the ebook from there directly, into the Bluefire Reader app.

Check it out:  http://www.press.uchicago.edu/books/freeEbook.html.

Learn languages online through your local library

Your local library (Houston Public Library for me) may have access to the online Mango Language program.  If so, you can probably access the training classes for free.

Today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day (Sept 19th). HPL will let you access the pirate lessons for free without a library card - http://www.mangolanguages.com/try-it.php?course_id=224

To access any of the other courses at the Houston Library website, you will need your library card.  http://www.houstonlibrary.org/home

Go to Research, click Alphabetical Database Listing, and then M for Mango Languages.  Mango immerses you in real, everyday conversations in multiple languages, including Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Russian, Arabic or learn ESL for Spanish, Vietnamese, Arabic and more.

API Oil and Gas Interactive Examples

The American Petroleum Institute (API) has a number of cool interactive games.

• Road Trip offers something new - an entertaining gaming experience with helpful do's and don'ts for better fuel efficiency!
• In Exploration Nation, you will have to balance your time, money, Mother Nature and unexpected factors while you search for resources.
• Think you know your facts and figures on energy? Put them to the test with the Energy IQ.

Check it out: http://energytomorrow.org/multimedia/#/channel/interactives