Articulate

Energize your courses with Articulate Engage—a quick and easy tool that lets you create lean-forward experiences that learners love. The ability to produce dazzling interactions that turn passive viewers into active learners.

Easy-to-use templates let you create rich-media interactivity in minutes. Choose from a wide range of interaction types, including process, timeline, pyramid diagram, labeled graphic, interactive FAQ, and more. The familiar Flash format allows interactions to integrate seamlessly into virtually any e-learning course, or even stand alone on any Web site. Once you see how quickly and easily you can create great looking interactive content, you'll never want to produce passive e-learning again.

Here's a quick sample we made using videos shot with nursing faculty Nancy Hust and Amy Sands. You can upload images, or videos along with customized text to create a quick, professional engaging activity:

click here for sample

This software is available for staff use in GL132.

Quandary

Remember the old "choose your own adventure" books where you get to decide what the character does, but have to suffer the consequences if the choice was wrong? Now you can create your own adventure for your students with Quandary, from Half-Baked software. A quandary reads like a story, but contains a large number of Decision Points where the reader will have to make a choice between several courses of action. Clicking on the link carries the story further, but a different decision point will arise with an entirely new set of choices.

You can create your own scenario for ethics, law, sociology, etc. with this simple tool. All you need is a PC and a little imagination!

This shareware program only works on pc at the moment (sorry Mac users.) For more information,click here.

Want to try a couple of Quandary mazes out for fun? Click here.