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Teachers’ Aids on Creating Content for Learning Environments (TACCLE)

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TACCLE, not the snappiest of acronyms but a site worth looking at for information and guides relating to the use, source and creation of learning materials. The TACCLE handbook can be accessed by registering on this site . To give you an idea of the content, here is a list of all of the sections:

Section 1: Getting started
Chapter 1: What is e-learning?
Chapter 2: Tools that are useful for communicating and creating e-learning
content
Chapter 3: Weblogs
Chapter 4: Wikis
Chapter 5: Podcasting
Chapter 6: Video sharing
Chapter 7: Presentation sharing
Chapter 8: Social bookmarking
Chapter 9: Voice threads
Chapter 10: RSS feed readers
Chapter 11: Image sharing
Chapter 12: Taxonomies, folksonomies and metadata
Section 2: The pedagogy of e-learning
Chapter 13: Different sorts of e-learning
Chapter 14: The role of the teacher in e-learning
Chapter 15: The target group
Chapter 16: Assessment
Chapter 17: Trends & directions in e-learning pedagogy: social software and
web 2.0
Section 3: Learning environments
Chapter 18: Learning Management Systems
Chapter 19: Personal Learning Environments
Section 4: Creating Digital Learning Objects
Chapter 20: Learning objects
Chapter 21: Designing Learning Objects
Chapter 22: Creating text-based content
Chapter 23: Creating cartoons and comics
Chapter 24: Publishing digital learning objects
Chapter 25: Authoring software
Chapter 26: Copyright and Open Educational Resources
Section 5: Networks and communities
Chapter 27: Networked Space
Chapter 28: Communities of sharing

Although the content is aimed at classroom teachers the information is useful for anyone working in the education sector and using a VLE in some form or another.