Flipbooks are a current novelty and a fun interaction appropriate in some e-learning courses. The Articulate ’09 suite of rapid e-learning development tools has an Engage Flipbook interaction. However, I often find that the pages in the published interaction look too narrow to me.

Through my online, personal learning network I discovered Youblisher.com from Brian Batt of Articulate. I viewed his screencast tutorial, went to Youblisher.com to upload an old user guide I created some time ago, and created my first Youblisher.com Web-based (Flash) flipbook from a PDF file.

Take a look by clicking the image below. (Note: The PDF file I used was a low resolution file.)

Click image to view flipbook in a new Youblisher.com browser window.

Brian Batt of Articulate created a screencast of Youblisher.com and added it to his post on the Word of Mouth Blog. You can insert the Youblisher.com output as a Web Object in an Articulate online course to use it instead of the Engage flipbook interaction if you need wider pages for your content.

You can view Brian’s screen cast here:

Or, click the link below to view it directly on Screenr:

http://screenr.com/RRh

I’m already thinking of some ideas on how to use Youblisher.com in future e-learning courses!

Blogs are amazing. From Dr. Tony Karrer’s blog, I find a post to another blog, where I click a link to Dr. Jane Knight’s blog, where I discover a wonderful colleague in Australia, Debora Gallo. She works for ING. My family and I are ING customers, and I “love” the writing style used in their customer communications.

So, I surfed her blog with interest. She and I share similar experiences and goals both personally and professionally. Now, I know this is not a true video but a presentation. However, I liked it so much that Deb’s presentation on Slideshare.net is July’s “Video of the Month”.

Bravo, Debora! Otra! Otra! Otra!

Informal Learning @ ING

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And, it’s fun to see the face and experience of someone who works for my bank!

Ah, the ‘Net and the blogosphere. They both keep me “Always Learning”!

http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2008/04/free-learning-tool-for-every-learning.html

Zaid Ali Algasoff put together a long and very helpful list for budget-conscious public-school instructors. Um, that includes 99.9% of them! (I taught in a Community College district for three years, and know that funds come out of a public instructor’s pocket if they really want to engage their students).

Zaid compiled a list of 137 free resources, the Web 2.0 variety, that teachers can use.

Go for it, nephew! That free Web site you asked me to review is fine (the SnapFish photo galleries are awesome!), but check out:

Edublogs at http://edublogs.org/

More and more, I’m seeing people use blogs to blog and to be their Web site/CMS (content management system, including photos, homework assignments, items for parents, etc.). A blog isn’t just a blog anymore.

It doesn’t matter what grade level you’re currently teaching. You can set up your blog to “go with you” as you advance in the career that you love!

Let me know what you think by leaving a comment.

I’m so proud of you!

~Aunt Jenise.