E-Learning Community 2.0

It’s 2008 now and today, I’ll be posting some of the useful sites and software tools. Let’s start with useful sites to help you create content.

1. Cool Banner and Graphic Generators

Adding contents like pictures, comics and graphical stuff does make your online content more appealing and interesting. What generator does, is to enable users with no knowledge or graphical software to create cool and interesting graphics to enhance your online content. The link below is one cool site to get all kinds of graphical generator such as customized banners, message board , stick notes and stuff you never thought possible. Check out some of the samples I made.

I did this one using Garfield Comic Generator

This is done using Road Construction Sign Generator

Ever thought of making your activities fun with Cross Word Puzzle, there’s even a generator for it.

Visit this site to get a whole lot of links to enhance your content here. http://www.techroam.com/250-cool-generators/

2. Cool Freeware to Use

There’s just so many software which are free to use to create contents. Well here are the list of cool software I used.

1. Wink
Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software (like a tutor for MS-Word/Excel etc).
Using Wink you can capture screenshots, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc and generate a highly effective tutorial for your users.

2. Paint.NET
If you prefer a more photoshop like gimp you might wanna try this photo editing software called paint.net. Is free and there’s many plug-ins enhance it’s functionalities and features.

3. DVD Flick
This is one useful software supposing you wanna create a collection of your videos (be it some leisure trips, or some teaching content) in a DVD in a nice menu all setup for you. With this software, everything is a breeze and best of all it’s FREE!