High Quality Stock Photography

For those of you Photoshop junkies who are (like the Production Team at CTL) engaged in an endless search for high quality, royalty free, and fair-use friendly images, allow us to introduce stock.xchng and morgueFile.

These sites are jewels! They can be invaluable to educators looking to augment their online classes with visual elements. Also check out the Wikimedia Commons which, in its own words, is “A database of 3,973,575 freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute.”

Imagine the PowerPoint Possibilities!

Think PowerPoint consists of static slides? Think again! PowerPoint features multiple tools you can use to create exciting, interactive learning units. Tom Kuhlmann of The Rapid eLearning Blog demonstrates how you can transform a simple PowerPoint slide show into a dynamic learning experience. Click the image to view the presentation.

If you have an idea for a multimedia addition to your course, please contact our media production department. We would love to sit down and discuss how we can make your ideas into reality.

Create Lovely Charts

Charts are boring. Really boring. Lovelycharts.com is a new free online application that helps you create your own dynamic and visually appealing charts without the need for software like Microsoft PowerPoint or Visio. You can create people diagrams, flowcharts, and process diagrams which are in a word...lovely. It takes seconds to sign up and is easy to learn.