The Learning 3.0 Conference

Attend and learn to:

• Leverage the explosion of mobile devices and make mobile learning “The Enabler”
  for performance improvement in your organization.
• Apply gamification to learning with game-based tools like experience points,
  badges and more for lasting engagement.
• Use social media to centralize knowledge across the enterprise and create
  valuable communities of practice.
• Reach game-savvy, socially-networked workers and create a learning model
  that truly delivers just-in-time learning and performance support.

http://www.learning3point0.com/

Brochure
http://www.learning3point0.com/pdf/learning3brochure.pdf

Learning Games For Kids

Educational games are a great tool for building foundation math and language skills that today's elementary school curriculum requires. These online learning games and songs for kids are fun, teach important skills for preschool and elementary school kids and they're free. Want educational games that help build skills in math, language, science, social studies, and more? You've come to the right place.

http://www.learninggamesforkids.com/

Games-Based Learning Experiences report

Games-Based Learning Experiences: Testing the principles with teachers and students

This paper outlines the findings from three workshops with teachers and students in which they:

• give feedback on the relative importance of key learning elements identified in digital games
• explore how these elements could be used to support the creation of games-based learning experiences in formal education settings.

 The workshops were designed to explore how the previous research within this project which identified learning elements from digital games (Bober 2010) could be applied in formal education settings and used as the basis for games-based learning experiences that did not have to include digital games. The teacher workshops identified tools through which these principles could be applied. However, teacher availability meant they did not use these tools to create a games-based experience.

 

The paper describes: the participants, the workshop activities, the findings of the workshops, and in particular teacher and student attitudes towards each of the key learning elements and which they felt were most important to include if creating games-based learning experiences for the classroom.

More Info and download link :

http://www.futurelab.org.uk/resources/games-based-learning-experiences-testing-principles-teachers-and-students

Free and Open Source Text to Speech Tools for e-Learning

Open source software can be used as we wish, without long-term commitments and with a community of professionals that extend and support them .

http://blog.efrontlearning.net/2011/01/free-and-open-source-text-to-speech.html

Mobile Technologies and Learning literature review

There is considerable interest from educators and technical developers in exploiting mobile technologies to enable new and engaging forms of learning. This review provides a rich vision of the current and potential future developments in this area.

http://www.futurelab.org.uk/resources/mobile-technologies-and-learning-literature-review

TEXT2SPEECH: A Free, Online, Text To Speech Converter

TEXT2SPEECH is an easy to use, text to speech converter.

There was a time when text-to-speech con­ver­sion tools were looked upon with the same awe as 3D video and, were about as rare. No longer. Sev­eral free tools have emerged recently which do a decent con­ver­sion job. One of them (sort of) is TEXT2SPEECH. Like most online tools, this one has good and not so good features.

http://www.detools.ca/?p=6433

http://www.text2speech.org/

Swiffy From Google : convert SWF files to HTML5

Swiffy converts Flash SWF files to HTML5, allowing you to reuse Flash content on devices without a Flash player (such as iPhones and iPads).

Swiffy currently supports a subset of SWF 8 and ActionScript 2.0, and the output works in all Webkit browsers such as Chrome and Mobile Safari. If possible, exporting your Flash animation as a SWF 5 file might give better results.
http://swiffy.googlelabs.com/