Rapid eLearning

JANUARY 26, 2016

Had a question about finding good free audio sound effects for elearning courses. Many of these free audio sites are under Creative Commons licensing, but check to be sure. Free Audio Sound Effect Sites for Commercial Use. FindSound : a good search engine for sounds. Review their Creative Commons licensing.

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The Learning Rooms

APRIL 11, 2025

Technology which overlays digital information such as text labels, images and sounds onto the real-world environment. Creative Commons Licence. Adding multimedia, such as images, sound, animation and video to a text or narrative. Augmented Reality. Authoring Tool. Collaborative Learning. Digital Storytelling.

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Diversity Training Compliance Training Digital Blended Learning 52

Rapid eLearning

DECEMBER 15, 2014

In its place, you’ll have access to a Bing image search, which will be filtered by Creative Commons licensing. And later when you need money for illustrations, you’ll sound more sophisticated and avoid some of the eye rolling you’d get asking for a clip art budget. Creative Commons Beware.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 2, 2011

Sound familiar? by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 The same excuses and opposition is still being trotted out today by those who are opposed to the use of mobile phones in classrooms. No excuses. Image source Excuses, excuses. Unported License.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 20, 2007

EveryStockPhoto is a search engine for creative commons photos, located in Vancouver, BC. Yotophoto is now indexing well over a quarter million Creative Commons, Public Domain, GNU FDL, and various other 'copyleft' images. free image reference material for use in all creative pursuits. (2) Basic but still valuable.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 21, 2018

The survey question was really a way to confirm whether or not my hypothesis was sound. by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 As you can see from the findings of a small sample of just 314 votes, the results are aligned to my claim.

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Innovation Examples Sample Creative Commons 95

Learning with e's

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Most of my recent slide presentations are freely available on this Slideshare site , and I publish them under a Creative Commons license that allows others to download and use them either as complete slideshows, or to select individual slides that can be inserted into their own slideshows. Unported License.

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Adobe Captivate

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Music can be a challenge but there are many resources that offer free music under a creative commons license. If this sounds like a good value, use my referral link: [link] so they know I sent you to their site. With Graphicstock I don’t need to worry about all the attribution rules that creative commons requires.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 25, 2014

Student work on data logging light and sound levels I caught up with Stephen and spent some time discussing these ideas with him on his stand at Bett. One of the Big Data projects he showed me involved children using free downloadable light and sound metre apps to measure their environment around them. Unported License.

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License Creative Commons Sound Analytics 90

Mindflash

JANUARY 18, 2012

As the new year begins, consider reviewing these areas to better know your business and your world, then use the information to develop a sound strategy to be successful in 2012: The economy — What’s the impact of today’s economy on your business? Image used under Creative Commons by Flickr user RambergMediaImages.

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Learning Visions

MAY 21, 2007

Best to apply universally sound methods to enhance learning. Wendy Wickham This work by Cammy Bean is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Vary activities to maintain interest and attention. Provide support and control mechanisms to help learners "stick with it." Getting an Informal M.Ed

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Mindflash

DECEMBER 19, 2011

I know it sounds like a vacation postcard, but as I stood in the food line waiting my turn for some outstanding hors d’oeuvres, I noticed how much fun everyone was having. By defining (reasonable) expectations we are able to create a more sane, sound, and significant approach to the workday. We had our office Holiday party last night.

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Companies Creative Commons Sound Roles 92

Learning with e's

APRIL 5, 2014

This might sound like a paradox, but essentially, with all the digital tools we now have at our disposal, we can connect like never before, and create our own powerful social networks. This was a very impressive feat and they are all great reading. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s.

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Personal Personalization Social Social Networks 86

Obsidian Learning

JULY 16, 2018

In learning and development, and instructional and graphics design, it can be tempting to use such resources to demonstrate a procedure (YouTube video), illustrate a point (funny photo/meme), or simply improve the auditory and/or visual presentation of your content (sound effects/cool graphics).

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Instructional Design Instruction Instructional Creative Commons 84

Rapid eLearning

JUNE 1, 2010

Creative Commons Audio. The tools above are free and help you get better sounding audio. Sometimes we need background music or sound effects. If you have some money you can always buy background music and sound effects on CD. Here are a few sites that offer sound effects and free music. Levelator – before.

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Learning with e's

JULY 8, 2011

If this sounds familiar, it is exactly what happens informally day in, day out on Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites. Image source by Steve Paine Digital age learning by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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Digital Social Networks Pedagogy Social Media 103

Learning with e's

APRIL 17, 2011

The Sounds of the Bazaar Internet radio guys were also present and I managed to squeeze in a live interview on Day 1 with Klaus Rummler on the 'future of learning', as we stood outside in the spring sunshine. I met a lot of smart people, and engaged in some very valuable conversations about learning, technology, culture and life in general.

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eLearning Brothers

APRIL 16, 2015

Finding quality assets (images, sound effects, video, etc.) Creative Commons – These licenses allow creators to communicate which rights they reserve, and which rights they waive for the benefit of recipients or other creators. Creative Commons . Recap on Copyright Free and Royalty Free.

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Mindflash

JANUARY 17, 2012

Do our long updates help make our tasks sound more important and more involved than they really are? I know it sounds crazy, but it’s time to impose a little discipline here. Image used under Creative Commons by Flick user markhillary. Alas, we still used the entire hour. I fell back into the old routine. Just do it.

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TechSmith Camtasia

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

If the content you’re recording has its own audio—like the sound effects in a game—you will want to unmute your device so it is captured. If you’re recording a game or app that has both background music and sound effects you should turn off music within the game settings. Incompetech (Creative Commons – attribution).

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Communities of Practice are described as groups of people who share a common interest and can be instrumental as a network within which learning can take place because of the critical mass of contributions from the group''s members. PLNs and CoPs sound so similar, we could be forgiven for thinking that they are more or less synonymous.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 27, 2011

View more presentations from Steve Wheeler I started off with some horseplay on accents and language (I do an impressive Shetland accent, but my French accent sounds more like Inspector Clouseau gargling). by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 28, 2013

This is the concept behind vision immersion, where 360 degree projection and surround sound provide enhanced sensory experience. Audiences sit in cinema style seats, and their field of vision is saturated by the images, supplemented by surround sound. Sit there for long enough and you feel like the entire room is moving around you.

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gomo learning

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Continuing on the theme of saving eLearning designers time and money , the Gomo team has been sifting through the internet’s many libraries of free and open-source images, videos, sound files, fonts, templates, and software. Free Music and Sound Effects for eLearning Courses. Free image libraries perfect for use in eLearning courses.

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Free Authoring Tools Resources Audacity 111

Learning with e's

MAY 21, 2018

You can do this in various ways, by reinforcing your points with images, video, sound, or repeating important words or phrases. Share them under a Creative Commons license and you'll be surprised how far, and how quickly, your ideas will spread. 6) Repeat key points if you think you need to. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MAY 24, 2014

Phonetic level: This is a deeper level of processing where we listen to the sound of the word. Structural level: This is a shallow layer of processing where we only pay attention to the outward appearance of a word (e.g. its morphology). Semantic level: This is the deepest level of processing where we consider the meaning of the word.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Hacking Digital Learning Strategies sounds quite a daunting title for a book of practical ideas, but with the cartoon spaceman on the cover, readers will know they are in for a fun ride with plenty of happiness along the way. It is a delight to see her new book has been published, and it was a joy to receive a copy for review recently.

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Learning Strategy Digital Strategy License 85

Learning with e's

MAY 10, 2011

The connotation of closed door classrooms is that no-one sees or hears what goes on except the teachers and the students, who are all locked in, until the bell sounds. Image source by Jack Hill Open door classrooms by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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learnWorlds

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Imagine an online music library where you can find everything from cinematic sound effects to indie and spiritual music and from jingles to entire playlists. The site currently hosts more than 600,000 tracks and sounds, all of which you can find by browsing through more than 40 categories of music and sounds.

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Music Site Free Video 98

Learning with e's

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Some even talk about the 'digital dividend', which to me sounds very much like a neat side step around the main issue. Image by Tom Clearwood The elephant in the room by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 The digital divide will not go away, but it cannot be ignored.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

This is the essence of all multi-media, where text, images, video and sound are combined to provide the user with a rich experience of knowledge and information access. Imagined futures 6: Home entertainment by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 8, 2013

It takes live views of the real world around you and augments them with computer generated sensory information such as graphics, data, video or sound. What educators do with them next, is really down to each individual's creativity and imagination. Photo by Steve Wheeler Where AR we now? Unported License.

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Mindflash

MAY 7, 2012

Oh, this makes me sound like the big, bad, evil teacher, but it makes me nervous when I start getting too many under-performers requesting help. Image used under Creative Commons by Flickr user ms.akr. Word of mouth is powerful. 3) Undertrained vs. under-performing. Article republished with permission. .

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Classroom Yammer Classes Effectiveness 92

Learning with e's

JANUARY 7, 2014

They were very proud of the work they had done around the analysis of audio waveforms, frequencies and sound synthesis to create their own songs. Image by Mike Licht Breaking down the silos by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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Blended Learning Photography Music License 92

Learning with e's

DECEMBER 3, 2014

On the second day of the project they assembled their images and videos together, added sound effects and music, and then presented their videos to their peers and the module tutors for feedback. Plymouth has a rich heritage and is steeped in history. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 2, 2011

Yes, I know it sounds absurd, but I think it will work. by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Wait for it - I am advocating one pencil for every child in the school! Needless to say, I have had many objections and lots of opposition from all quarters. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MAY 24, 2020

I often write about blended in all its many guises (I don't get out much these days), and several posts that haven't yet been taken down are still available including this one about boundaries and how to transgress them (yes, sounds like a disaster waiting to happen, and it probably is). Unported License , or so we are told.

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