Tools & Resources 

Tools & Resources

Instructional Development Tools   

• LMS
  • E-Learning Guild: Learning Management Systems Report
• LCMS
  • Brandon Hall Research (LCMS)
• Authoring
  • Dreamweaver
• Synchronous Learning
  • Instructors Guide to Live E-Learning
• PowerPoint Conversion
  • Camtasia
• Rich Media
  • Flash
• Assessment
  • Assessment for Learning
• Instructional Games
  • Thiagi.com
• Software Simulation
  • Captivate
• Soft-skill/Task Simulation
  • Second Life

Web Design Issues  

• Web Page Design
  • Web Design Directory
  • Web Design Practices
  • http://www.webstyleguide.com/page/index.html
• Web Site Design
  • SiteExperts.com
  • WebDesignPractices.com
  • SitePoint.com
  • http://www.webstyleguide.com/site/index.html
• Web Application Design
  • User Interface Engineering
  • DevX.com -- application development
  • PHPBuilder: Web App Development
  • Boxes And Arrows: What is A Web Application?
• Frames & Links
  • Netscape: Frames - An Introduction
  • W3C: Frames
• Collaboration Technology
  •  W3C: Collaboration
  • TWiki Enterprise Collaboration Platform
• Search Engines
  • Google
  • Yahoo
  • Lycos
  • Dictionary & Thesaurus
• Web Style Guide
  • Web Style Guide (Yale University Press)
  • Guide to Web Style (Sun Microsystems)
  • MSDN Web Workshop (Microsoft)
• Web Master Roles & Skills
  • Web Master's Den: Resource Directory

Web Development Tools

• Web Developer Portals
  • IntelligentEnterprise
  • Webmonkey.com
  • WDVL: Web Developer's Virtual Library
  • Internet.com
  • WebDeveloper.com
  • Tech Web: Business Technology Network
  • W3Schools.com
  • Webreference.com
• HTML / XHTML
  • W3Schools.com: HTML Tutorial
  • Web Design Group: HTML 4.0 Reference
• CSS
  • W3C: CSS
  • W3C: CSS Learning
  • W3C: CSS Validator
  • Web Design Group: CSS
  • CSS-Positioning
• DOM
  • W3C: DOM
  • Mozilla: Gecko DOM Reference
  • W3Schools: DOM Tutorial
• JavaScript
  • Netscape JavaScript Guide
  • W3Schools: JavaScript Tutorial
  • The JavaScript Source (example scripts)
  • JavaScript Kit (tutorials & example scripts)
• DHTML
  • MSDN: Introduction to DHTML
  • DHTML Behaviors
  • HTML + Time
• ActionScript
  • ActionScript.org
  • ActionScript.com
  • ActionScript-Toolbox.com
  • ActionScript Viewer 4.0
  • ActionScriptHero.com -- Blog
  • http://www.moock.org/
• XML / XSL
  • MSDN XML Developer Center
  • W3C: XML
• PHP / MySQL
  • PHPbuilder
  • PHPbuilder: Create a CMS
  • MySQL.com/
  • Developer Shed : MySQL Tutorial
  • MySQL Admistrator Download
• Active Server Pages
  • ASP Free
  • HotScripts.com (free script examples)
  • ASP Tutorials
  • FreeScripts.com (free script examples)

Software Tools

• Sofware Sources
  • Adobe
  • Apple
  • Macromedia
  • Microsoft
    
• Raster Graphics:
  • Adobe Photoshop CS
  • Macromedia Fireworks MX
    
• Vector Graphics
  • Adobe Illustrator CS
  • Macromedia Freehand MX
    
• Screengrab
  • Inbit FullShot
    
• Audio Editing
  • Adobe Audition
    
• Video Editing:
  • Adobe Premiere
    
• Word processing
  • Microsoft Word
    
• Print Publishing & Layout
  • Quark Xpress
    
• PDF
  • Adobe Acrobat
    
• Spreadsheet
  • Microsoft Excel
    
• Presentation
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
    
• Project Management
  • Microsoft Project
    
• Animation
  • Macromedia Flash MX
    
• Simulation
  • Macromedia Captivate (RoboDemo)
    
• HTML Editing
  • Macromedia Dreamweaver MX
    
• Flow Chart & Process Diagrams
  • SmartDraw
  • Inspiration
  • Microsoft Visio
    
• Browsers
  • Mozilla Firefox
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer
    
• FTP
  • GlobalScape CuteFTP
    
• CBT
  • SumTotal ToolBook Instructor 2004
    
• Flash Communications Server
  • Macromedia Flash Communications Server

Information Objects / Learning Objects

Team Resources In Development

• Management & Leadership
• Power of Alignment
• Crossing the Chasm
• Learning Organization
• Intrinsic Motivation
• Teaching Self-Esteem
• Social Accountability

Glossaries

• Internet Terms
• Matisse.net: Glossary of Intenet Terms
• Berkeley: Glossary of Internet & Web Jargon
• UsabilityFirst.com -- Website Design Glossary
  
• Instructional Design & Education Terms
  • SDSU.edu: Instructional Design Glossary:
  • Glossary of Instructional Strategies (tactics & methods)
  • Don Clark's Overview of Terms: Index
  • International Board of Standards for Training, Performance & Instruction (ibstpi.org) -- Glossary of Terms
  • TrainingDictionary.com

Learning & Training Communities

• LearningTimes.net
• The Learning Web (Gordon Dryden, author, The Learning Revolution)
• E-Learning Developer's Journal (The E-Learning Guild)
• Trainers Network -- Instructional Design
• vnulearning.com (Conference Event Schedule)
• Greater Arizona eLearning Association (GAZEL)
• eSATS — eLearning System for Arizona Teachers & Students
• LAMS Foundation — Learning Activity Management System (Australia)

Instructional Design Resources

• Design Tools & Strategies
• Don Clark's Training Resource
• Don Clark's Performance Management Resource
• University of Colorado: Instructional Design Models
• UsabilityFirst.com -- Usability Glossary: Interaction Design
• TIP: Theory Into Practice Database -- Explorations in Learning & Instruction
• San Jose State University — Instructional Technology Resources
• Learning Theories & Pedagogical Strategies
• elearnspace.org ( George Siemens Blog: everything elearning)
• Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age (Blog & Wiki)
• Stephen's Web (Stephen Downes: Research, Knowledgebase, Blog)
• IDI — Instructional Design Institute (Certification Programs)
• HPC Spider: Human Performance Center (U.S. Navy)

• Design History
• History of Instructional Design (in Hypertext)
• The Cognitive Revolution: A Historical Perspective   (George A. Miller, Princeton, "TRENDS in Cognitive Science" Vol 7, No 3, March 2003)