PCWorld.com - Reviews

Tech reviews.

LibriVox

Free audiobooks.

ThinkGeek :: Stuff for Smart Masses

Fun geek toys and t-shirts.

Cepstral - We Build Voices / Text to Speech Synthesis

High quality synthesized voices in multiple languages. Support for Mac, WIN, and UNIX for development.

Instant Activities

Easily modified Flash learning activities: categorize, image labeller, and matching pairs.

Dismuke's Virtual Talking Machine

Vintage 78 records in Real Audio.

PDA Participatory Simulations @ MIT

Creative use of PDAs in simulations.

Kevin Kelly -- Cool Tools

Very interesting - cool tools in many categories.

e-Learning Centre Library Index

Useful articles and resources related on developing online courses.

Ricci Adams' Musictheory.net

Flash music theory tutorial.

The SimCam: Film and Digital Camera Simulator - Photonhead.com

Nicely done interactive simulation of adjusting shutter, aperture, and film speed. Great way to learn about effects of adjustments on a manual camera.

Audio, MIDI & music on mac - Mac Music

Macintosh music resources.

QT bridge : tools

Collection of links to Quicktime resources. Lots of freeware/shareware that i was not aware of. Digi-cut looks like it is perfect for A-B cuts in QT movies for mini-lectures in current project for Diversity Team.

Pleinpot: "fullscreen panorama on a web page:"

Interesting shareware to add audio to QTVR movies. Might be handy for QTVR tours of a teacher's classroom.

Poetry and Literature - Digital Audio

Hear Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, W.H. Auden and many others read their poems. It takes about 45 seconds for each file to start playing. Files are in Real Audio format.

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Additional poetry sites with poems read by authors:

BBC Poetry Audio Archive
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/poetry/outloud/

Poets.org Audio Archive
http://www.poets.org/booth/booth.cfm

Readings in Contemporary Poetry
http://www.diacenter.org/prg/poetry/

Harper Audio
http://town.hall.org/radio/HarperAudio/

UBUWEB Sound Archive
http://www.ubu.com/mp3/

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wamu.org : The Kojo Nnamdi Show : This Week

Favorite talk radio show - especially "Tech Tuesdays" and the "D.C. Politics Hour" on Fridays. All shows are archived (back to 2003) - listen at your convenience in Real Media, Windows Media, or MP3 Stream (itunes). Too bad all NPR radio is not as easily accessible online.

Macromedia - eLearning : CourseBuilder for Dreamweaver Extension

Free DreamWeaver tools -
"The CourseBuilder for Dreamweaver Extension is the most popular Macromedia learning extension. It accelerates the instructional development process with more than 40 pre-scripted learning interactions, quiz and assessment templates, and the ability to track results to a learning management system or database such as Lotus LearningSpace, using an AICC communication"


Documentation:
http://www.macromedia.com/support/coursebuilder/documentation.html

Media Creation > Real Export Plug-in

Export movie files in Real Player format. Works w/ lots of apps including Quicktime Pro, iMovie, and Final Cut Express