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No News is Good News for Microsoft PowerPoint in Office 14

mailroomuk@zdnet.com (W) — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 09:42:50 +0000

PowerPoint 2007 offers a lot of surprises to us when she made her debut with ribbon coat and SmartArt accessories years ago, however, those tremendous changes lead a lot of problems, such as incompatibility. Since Office 14 is going its way from alpha to ...

ELearning - Helping SMEs Through Economic Downturn

mailroomuk@zdnet.com (W) — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 07:32:05 +0000

The evidence that sales at many companies are struggling and that companies have to lay off employees to maintain companies' running. Dell Inc, the world's No. 2 PC maker, will cut about 1,900 of 3,000 jobs at its manufacturing plant in Limerick. DHL E...

How to Create a Quiz with Free Quiz Template in Adobe Flash

mailroomuk@zdnet.com (W) — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:13:23 +0100

This article will demonstrate how to create a simple online quiz, complete with options for feedback, scoring and tracking, using free Flash quiz template. Please ensure you can manage to use Adobe Flash MX, Flash 8, <...

More than Online Tests, Get Values from Your Assessment Results

mailroomuk@zdnet.com (W) — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 03:07:48 +0100

To measure learning performance in a flexible approach, many instructors have successfully implemented online tests and exams with e-learning authoring tools. Theoretically instructors would obtain all test items and responses in detail, and generate anal...

Build Web Presentations with Presenter's Video

mailroomuk@zdnet.com (W) — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:20:07 +0100

Are you suffering the high cost and continual repetition of live presentations? As a president, I always join many meetings and trade shows to present our products or corporation. There is no problem with the live presentation. But Im stuck w...

Technology in E-Assessment: Focused on the Performance of eLearning

mailroomuk@zdnet.com (W) — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:57:18 +0100
From the definition of E-assessment from Wikipedia, we can see the advantages of deploying an e-testing system are obvious: lower long-term cost, instant feedback, great flexibility, improved reliabi...

Technology in Classroom: Teaching with Web 2.0 in New School Year

mailroomuk@zdnet.com (W) — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:17:32 +0100
Found this while surfing my RSS feeds for all teachers to empower their classroom with emerging technologies .... Kicking off the school year: Web 2.0 Styl...

Online Training Needs Assessment: Measure Learning Performance Effortlessly

mailroomuk@zdnet.com (W) — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:43:57 +0100
For online training instructors, creating meaningful performance assessments for online training is a critical issue. Nowadays, most online training instructors like to evaluate what learners learnt during the learning process through tradition...

Quick Tips to Enhance Your Presentation in PowerPoint 2007

mailroomuk@zdnet.com (W) — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 06:50:19 +0100

After your meticulously constructed the contents of next-day presentation, enrichment is great for your confidence. Applying some quick enhancements to your presentation is really easy, because youll find PowerPoint 2007 has made them ready for you. <...

Building E-Assessment: The Practical Guide to Online Quizzes in Moodle

mailroomuk@zdnet.com (W) — Tue, 13 May 2008 03:43:03 +0100
Feedback on performance is a critical part of a learning environment and assessment is one of the most important activities in education. It seems like lately a lot of educators have been trying to make quizzes in Moodle, as a part of their online learnin...