Thursday, June 11, 2015

Promoting Your online training or MOOC or Course

Promoting Your online training or MOOC or Course 

Useful software for screen-casting


SmartClose

It's deceptively simple, but this application quickly and cleanly closes all programs, and just as easily restores them. SmartClose's five-icon interface smartly uses tooltips to quickly and adequately explain program operation. Intermediate to advanced users will install and operate the program with no further instruction.

http://download.cnet.com/SmartClose/3000-2094_4-10784165.html 




WinSize2

WinSize: Move windows automatically to a predefined place. Resize width and/or height. Moving OR changing size possible. Supports text CONTAINED in titles (like "Notepad") to identify window. One hotkey for all fcts. Multi lang. support; Handbook:EN+DE

http://sourceforge.net/projects/winsize2/




Sizer 3.34

Sizer is a freeware utility that allows you to resize any window to an exact, predefined size. This is extremely useful when designing web pages, as it allows you to see how the page will look when viewed at a smaller size. The utility is also handy when compiling screen-shots for documentation, using Sizer allows you to easily maintain the same window size across screen grabs.

http://www.brianapps.net/sizer/





Windy - enhanced window manager. 

http://projectwindy.codeplex.com/

Recommended upload encoding settings (Advanced)

Recommended upload encoding settings (Advanced)



https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/1722171?hl=en

Length of an Online Video

Screen Recorder for Android

Screen Recorder for Android


Mirror Beta




Record your Android screen to a video file or screencast your Android to a Fire TV, Apple TV, Chrome, or even another Android!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.koushikdutta.mirror 



Lollipop Screen Recorder


Lollipop Screen Recorder is a simple and easy to use screen recorder for devices running Android 5.0+

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rivulus.screenrecording 



AZ Screen Recorder - No Root



Featured on Google Play Home Page, Android Police, Yahoo News, CNET, Android Central, Droid-Life and more.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hecorat.screenrecorder.free


Unlimited Screen Recorder



The first and only totally-free mobile video recording software. 

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mistygames.screenrecord&hl=en

Telecine



Capture full resolution videos directly on your phone.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jakewharton.telecine

screencasting software

screencasting software


screencast-o-matic

One-click screen capture recording on Windows or Mac computers with no install for FREE!

http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/


CamStudio 


CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs)

http://camstudio.org/

Start an Online Discussion Community for students or subscribers

Start an Online Discussion Community for students or subscribers  



Google Groups
https://support.google.com/groups/answer/2464926?hl=en

Here's how to create a group:


  • Go to Google Groups.
  • Near the top left corner, click Create group.
  • Describe the group. Tip: If you're not sure what to include, you can learn more about establishing general information and settings.
  • Choose the type of group you want to create. Tip: If you're not sure what to choose, you can learn about selecting group types.
  • Choose who can join, post, and see topics in your group. Tip: If you don't know what to pick, you can learn more about setting basic permissions.
  • Near the top left corner, Click Create group button.



Yahoo groups
https://groups.yahoo.com/







Linkedin Groups
https://help.linkedin.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/6/~/creating-a-group



facebook groups

https://www.facebook.com/help/167970719931213

To create a group:

  • From your home page, go to the Groups section on the left side menu and click Create Group.
  • Click + Create New Group at the top of the page. A window will appear, where you'll be able to add a group name, add members and select the privacy settings for your group.
  • Click Create when you're done.




Ning

Ning is an online platform for people and organizations to create custom social networks, launched in October 2005. Wikipedia

http://www.ning.com/

Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Add soft background music for educational videos

Add soft background music for educational videos


SoundCloud 

SoundCloud is a Swedish online audio distribution platform based in Berlin, Germany, that enables its users to upload, record, promote, and share their originally-created sounds. Wikipedia

http://soundcloud.com/


myspoonful


We deliver free new music to busy people.
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Once a week, right here and in our email newsletter, we tell you about a single new independent music artist you need to know about and include a free MP3 you can listen to or download. Our team of expert music writers do all the work for you – sifting through new music and recommending only the best, up-and-coming artists that are worth your time. Just like the dude at the record store you used to go to, we know what to listen to outside of the mainstream.

A spoonful of new music is just the right amount.
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Let’s face it, there’s too much music and information out there for you to keep up with, which is why we’ve kept things very simple. mySpoonful doles out just the right amount of new music and info – a spoonful – for each artist we feature. Each spoonful profiles a single new independent music artist, and contains a free MP3 song download, an artist photo, and a bio from our team of expert writers. Love the artist and want more? Drill down and get a video, info on other bands you may like, links to buy more music, and more.

Get it the way you want it.
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No matter how you want your new music, we’re there for you. Whether you visit our site regularly (from desktop or mobile), subscribe to our email newsletter, follow our tweets on Twitter, or like us on Facebook, you’re always up-to-date on the latest independent music – free, legal and curated by really cool people that know their stuff.

http://myspoonful.com/


ccmixter

A global community that creates open-source music under Creative Commons Licenses. Please support our IndieGogo campaign to keep ccMixter open and free!

http://ccmixter.org/


Archive 

The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library. Its purposes include offering permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format. 

Founded in 1996 and located in San Francisco, the Archive has been receiving data donations from Alexa Internet and others. In late 1999, the organization started to grow to include more well-rounded collections. Now the Internet Archive includes: texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages in our collections, and provides specialized services for adaptive reading and information access for the blind and other persons with disabilities. 

http://www.archive.org/details/audio




Free Music Archive 


Archive of public domain and Creative Commons licensed songs managed with a curatorial approach.http://freemusicarchive.org/


Helpful Tools to create websites and blogs for online training course or MOOC

Helpful Tools to create websites and blogs for online training course or MOOC









WordPress




Create a free website or easily build a blog on WordPress.com. Hundreds of free, customizable, mobile-ready designs and themes. Free hosting and support.



https://wordpress.com/



WordPress is a free and open-source tool and a content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL. Features include a plugin architecture and a template system. WordPress was used by more than 23.3% of the top 10 million websites as of January 2015. WordPress is the most popular blogging system in use on the Web, at more than 60 million websites.



Blogger



Blogger is a blog-publishing service that allows multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries. It was developed by Pyra Labs, which was bought by Google in 2003. Generally, the blogs are hosted by Google at a subdomain of blogspot.com. A user can have up to 100 blogs per account.



Blogger Tutorial



https://support.google.com/blogger/answer/1623800?hl=en



Google Sites 

 Google Sites is a structured wiki- and Web page-creation tool offered by Google as part of the Google Apps for Work productivity suite. Wikipedia



Google Sites Tutorial






http://learn.googleapps.com/sites



edublogs



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gzJNMEFkNM






Edublogs has been dedicated to providing the easiest, safest, most reliable and powerful educational blogging tools on the web. By teachers, for teachers, Edublogs hosts hundreds of thousands of blogs for teachers, students, researchers, professors, librarians, coordinators, institutions and administrators.



https://edublogs.org/



edublogs tutorials



http://help.edublogs.org/getting-started-with-edublogs/



Tumblr



Tumblr lets you effortlessly share anything. Post text, photos, quotes, links, music, and videos, from your browser, phone, desktop, email, or wherever you happen to be.



https://www.tumblr.com/



weebly



Weebly is a web-hosting service featuring a drag-and-drop website builder. As of August 2012, Weebly hosts over 20 million sites with a monthly rate of over 1 million unique visitors. The company is headquartered in San Francisco. Wikipedia



http://www.weebly.com/



Weebly tutorials



http://hc.weebly.com/hc/en-us/sections/200354313-Beginner-s-Guide-to-Weebly



wix



Wix.com is a cloud-based web development platform that allows users to create HTML5 websites and mobile sites, through the use of their online drag and drop tools. Wikipedia



wix tutorials

http://www.wix.com/blog/2014/05/tutorials-for-wix-newbies/



Typepad



Typepad is the best blogging service around: fun, easy, and professional.



http://www.typepad.com/







Squarespace



Squarespace's mission is to provide creative tools that power the future of the web. From designers creating the next generation of web and mobile experiences, to anyone managing their own online presence for the first time, Squarespace provides elegant solutions that set new standards for online publishing. By focusing our efforts on the fusion of design and engineering, we strive to create long-lasting products that delight and surprise our customers.



http://www.squarespace.com/



Quora



Quora is a question-and-answer website where questions are asked, answered, edited and organized by its community of users. The company was founded in June 2009, and the website was made available to the public on June 21, 2010. Wikipedia



www.quora.com


Email marketing tools to communicate with subscribers

Email marketing tools to communicate with subscribers 

mailchimp

MailChimp is an email marketing service provider, founded in 2001. It has 7 million users that collectively send over 10 billion emails through the service each month. Wikipedia

http://mailchimp.com/


mailchimp tutorial

http://kb.mailchimp.com/video-index



aweber

AWeber helps entrepreneurs, businesses and nonprofits increase sales and profits through its suite of web-based email marketing software.

http://www.aweber.com/

Most Useful Websites and Web Apps on the Internet

Most Useful Websites and Web Apps on the Internet



makeuseof
lifehack


upwork

quora

wikipedia

torrentz.eu

speedtest.net

tracemobilenumber.co.in

truecaller

IMDb

YouTube
SoundCloud
Reddit

Amazon


Ebay

Gmail

Google Drive
Google Hangouts

http://ge.tt/

p2pu

khanacademy.org

lynda.com
pluralsight.com
www.skymem.com

mindtools
http://builtwith.com
http://viewpure.com/

Monday, June 8, 2015

Q&A Sites to Answer Your Questions

Q&A Sites to Answer Your  Questions


Stack Exchange


Stack Exchange is a network of question and answer websites on diverse topics in many different fields, each site covering a specific topic, where questions, answers, and users are subject to a reputation award process.

Stack Exchange Explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbfbzKquYYI


Quora


Quora is a question-and-answer website where questions are asked, answered, edited and organized by its community of users. The company was founded in June 2009, and the website was made available to the public on June 21, 2010. Wikipedia


How to Use Quora
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9tIgfCN6F0

The Co-Founders of Quora have a conversation with John Battelle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqilSWYoIYw

What is it like to work at Quora?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUjBvf82fQ8

Online Training Platforms, Learning Management System, Online LMS, eLearning, Platforms to Publish and Sell Online Courses

Online Training Platforms, Learning Management System, Online LMS, eLearning, Platforms to Publish and Sell Online Courses


Udemy 

Udemy is the world's largest destination for online courses. 
We’re the world’s online learning marketplace, where 7 million+ students are taking courses in everything from programming to yoga to photography–and much, much more. 

Each of our 30,000+ courses is taught by an expert instructor, and every course is available on-demand, so students can learn at their own pace, on their own time, and on any device.

Udemy raises $65 million to pioneer a global marketplace

https://www.udemy.com/

Udemy video tutorials
https://support.udemy.com/customer/en/portal/articles?b_id=3150



DigitalChalk 

DigitalChalk provides innovative tools to launch engaging online courses using PPT, SCORM, video, audio & more. Learn more at http://www.digitalchalk.com

Looking for a cost-effective, turnkey way to provide online training? Look no further than DigitalChalk. We're a feature-rich learning management system (LMS) with a built-in course authoring suite, designed to get your training online in record time. Our cloud-based, hosted solution features pay-as-you-go pricing with no ongoing monthly fees, so it won't break the bank. If you're looking for an efficient and affordable way to maximize training online, the winning solution is DigitalChalk.

digitalchalk video tutorials
http://www.digitalchalk.com/resources/video-tutorials


SkyPrep 

SkyPrep is an online training platform, designed for businesses, and knowledge providers that want to train, test, and manage their employees or clients.
Creating courses is a simple process, and starts by uploading existing content such as PowerPoint presentations, training videos, Word documents or any other file type. Then, the testing platform allows users to create quizzes and tests with various question formats. Course building is as easy as picking-and-choosing from your repository of content and tests.

After inviting users to the platform, there are plenty of tools for managing, and tracking the activity, and performance of all your users. With real-time performance summaries, and analytic reports, you will always be informed of all the activity on your platform. 

We also offer plenty of customization options to personalize your training platform. From custom domain names, theme, and logo, you can make your users feel like they are doing their training directly from your own website. 

Developing, and training your employees or clients will never get any easier or more affordable.

SkyPrep Tutorials
https://skyprep.com/videos/
https://www.youtube.com/user/Skyprep/videos



wiziq

WizIQ's Learning Marketplace offers live instructor-led online courses and self-paced courses taught by instructors around the world on varied subjects.
https://www.wiziq.com/

wiziq tutorials


Moodle 


Moodle is a learning platform designed to provide educators, administrators and learners with a single robust, secure and integrated system to create personalised learning environments.
https://moodle.org/

Moodle video tutorials
https://docs.moodle.org/22/en/Moodle_video_tutorials
https://docs.moodle.org/29/en/Moodle_video_tutorials



Open EdX 

EdX is a nonprofit online initiative created by founding partners Harvard and MIT and composed of dozens of leading global institutions, the xConsortium. EdX offers 

interactive online courses and MOOCs from the world’s best universities and institutions.

Open edX is the open source platform that powers edX courses.  Through our commitment to the open source vision, edX code is freely available to the community.  

Institutions can host their own instances of Open edX and offer their own classes. Educators can extend the platform to build learning tools that precisely meet their 

needs. And developers can contribute new features to the Open edX platform.

Our goal is to build a thriving worldwide community of educators and technologists who share innovative solutions to benefit students everywhere.  We invite you to 

explore Open edX and participate in our growing movement.

https://open.edx.org

Companies for Online Tutoring

Companies for Online Tutoring 



TutorVista 

TutorVista is the world's leading online education company. Since its inception in 2005, TutorVista has been a pioneer in the education space providing quality online tutoring to students across the world, at a very affordable price. Online tutoring has been rapidly gaining popularity among students due to its ease of use, cost and its ability to provide an instant connection to a tutor just when a student needs help and is ready to learn.

TutorVista Global Private Limited is an online tutoring company owned by Pearson geared towards students in grades through high school. Wikipedia

http://www.tutorvista.co.in/corporate.php

Tutorials
https://www.youtube.com/user/TutorVista/videos




Tutor.com

Tutor.com is tutoring the way it was meant to be. You get an expert tutor whenever you need help, and you work one-to-one with your tutor in our online classroom on 

your specific problem until it's done. Everything happens online.
http://www.tutor.com/




Smarthinking


Smarthinking––on-demand, online tutoring proven to improve student performance and enhance learning. 

Smarthinking connects students to expert educators anytime, from any Internet connection, 24/7.
http://www.smarthinking.com/




BharatTutors

BharatTutors.com is an online service to search and connect students and tutors.
http://www.bharattutors.com/




Tutor India

Tutor India is a completely free service helping students and parents find teachers to teach at home, online or other suitable locations. Availability of teachers can 

be checked for online, one to one or Home tutoring.
http://tutorindia.net/




MyPrivateTutor


MyPrivateTutor.com makes it easy for students and parents to find local and online tutors, trainers, training institutes, classes and courses.

Business Management for Tutor

Business Management for Tutor 



TutorPanel 

TutorPanel is the ideal scheduling, billing, and accounting solution for tutoring companies with multiple teachers.
http://www.tutorpanel.com/

TutorPanel tutorials
http://www.tutorpanel.com/tutorials




teachworks

Business management software for education companies. Simplifies scheduling, communication, records, and billing.
https://teachworks.com/

Teachworks Tutorials
https://teachworks.com/tutorials



LearnSpeed 

LearnSpeed is a web-based education center and tutor management system that efficiently handles all of the instructors, students, clients and transactions of a modern 

tutoring business.
http://www.learnspeed.com/



SimplifyThis 

SimplifyThis is our pursuit to conquer the complexity of overbearing business processes which should have become simple and efficient with the use of technology. We often meet small business owners such as plumbers, electricians, music teachers, math tutors or other professionals who cannot easily remind their customers of overdue balances or track which invoices they have already sent. Technology is yet to come into play for these businesses. 

Easy to use online scheduling solutions together with billing and account management. Everything you need to manage your small business-efficiently and professionally. 

SimplifyThis is our pursuit to conquer the complexity of overbearing business processes which should have become simple and efficient with the use of technology.

http://www.simplifythis.com/about.htm

http://www.simplifythis.com/demo.htm
https://www.youtube.com/user/mrSimplifythis/videos