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Supercharge Your L&D Toolkit

cool toys to play with when building learning content

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Supercharge

Your L&D Toolkit

Cool toys to play with when building learning content!

Garima Gupta

ARTHA LEARNING INC

AUGUST 2023

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Focus on Tools

A good tool set enables learning designers to supercharge their learning solutions with minimal effort.

Free, low-cost or freemium models

Resources:

Downloadables – https://bit.ly/ToolswithGG

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Tools Change!

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Agenda & Objectives

Finding and Editing Media

Bonus: Lesser-known tools

AI tool landscape

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Finding and Editing Media

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Royalty-Free

Images

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unsplash.com

No download limits. Use as many images as many times as you want. Inexpensive paid option available.

pexels.com

pixabay.com

freeimages.com

Rodman.ai

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Royalty-Free

Images

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unsplash.com

undraw.co

A constantly updated design project with beautiful SVG images that you can use completely free and without attribution.

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Royalty-Free

Images

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unsplash.com

undraw.co

humaaans.com

Create your own characters easily. Feels like directing your own story. You set your own price!

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Time for a Mockup

placeit.net

The easiest way to create professional designs for free! Drag and drop your designs to our mockups to create beautiful product shots!

mockuuups.studio

The fastest way for designers and marketers to drag & drop visuals into device mockups. Allows for customizing the elements in a mockup.

“Build it, and they will come” only works in the movies. Social Media is a “build it, nurture it, engage them, and they may come and stay.”

― Seth Godin

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So it’s time for a Mockup!

When creating learning content, sometimes there’s a need to create mockups of computer or mobile screens or other items. Here we have 2 interesting platforms that can do that for you very quickly and easily.

PlaceIt can put any image that you provide in a variety of sets. For example, you can put your company logo on a mug or a T-Shirt or place a screenshot of your company’s website on the screen of a mobile device or a laptop computer. This is especially useful when creating guides, for instance, on how to use a mobile app or a particular section of a website. PlaceIt supports placing images inside video templates as well.

Mockuuups Studio does a similar job but only provides templates for placing content on the screen of devices. They support image templates, not videos, though.

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Editing

Images

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photopea.com

Completely free online photoshop alternative with hundreds of templates. Looks and works like photoshop!

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Editing

Images

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photopea.com

PowerPoint

remove.bg

Remove backgrounds and add new ones. Online and free (for lower-res downloads)

Cleanup.pictures

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Editing

Images

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photopea.com

PowerPoint

remove.bg

canva.com

Free and Paid tiers. Easily create professional-looking designs from pre-built templates.

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Royalty-Free

Videos

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storyblocks.com

Unlimited downloads with affordable subscription tiers. Very popular among YouTubers. Regular updates.

Envato Elements https://elements.envato.com/

Demo

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Royalty-Free

Videos

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storyblocks.com

pexels.com

Largest free collection of videos. Offers 4k resolution. Has an interesting collection of vertical videos.

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Create and Edit

Videos

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vyond.com

User-friendly platform to create animated training videos. Suitable for both beginner and advanced users.

Like Powtoon

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Create and Edit

Videos

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vyond.com

biteable.com

Template-based video creation platform used for creating short videos. Small micro-learning lessons.

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Edit Videos

TechSmith Camtasia

User-friendly tool for screen recording and editing videos. Has premade templates, dozens of effects and transitions. Can include interactive quizzes. Can export video content to SCORM.

123apps.com

Online media editing tool. Completely free. Performs various tasks. Doesn’t rely on your machine’s processing power so you can use it on not so powerful machines, too.

Forrester Research analyst James McQuivey claims one minute of video equals approximately 1.8 million written words.

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Royalty-Free

Music

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storyblocks.com

pixabay.com

free-stock-music.com

Lots of high-quality stock music for projects. Music organized into categories. Simplified search engine.

Like Bensound.com

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Royalty-Free

Music

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storyblocks.com

pixabay.com

free-stock-music.com

YouTube Audio Library

Music tracks and sound effects can be searchable and filtered based on genre, instrument, mood, duration, and attribution. May require attribution.

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Royalty-Free

Music

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storyblocks.com

pixabay.com

free-stock-music.com

Soundraw.io

Make your own AI-powered music

Demo

YouTube Music Library

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Create and Transcribe Voiceover

wellsaidlabs.com

Create a realistic AI voice over for all your digital content. Very high quality. Fast. Great for narration.

(like Speechify.com or readloud.net)

sonix.ai

Automated transcription, translation and subtitle creation in 35+ languages. Accurate. Speaker labeling. Reasonable pricing. Huge time saver.

Did you know? People prefer to listen at 200 words per minute but read at a faster rate of approximately 300 words.

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Sample 1

Otter.ai

Rev.com

Murf.ai

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Sample 2

Now let’s talk about voice over for a bit.

To create realistic voice over generated by AI, WellSaid is your go to. In most cases for narrations, not for content that actually require voice acting, the voice over produced by WellSaid AI is virtually indistinguishable from human voice over. Let’s listen to a short sample!

An alternative to WellSaid is Speechify. But this one doesn’t appear to be Powered by an AI. It’s higher quality text-to-speech engine.

Then there’s another AI powered platform called Sonix.ai. It takes your training videos and generates transcripts for them which you can download as a document or common closed captions file formats. This makes our lives infinitely easier when optimizing content for accessibility. You create subtitles for hours of instructional videos in a matter of minutes.

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Record and Edit Voiceover

Audacity

Audacity is an easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, macOS and Linux. Free, open source software. Most popular.

audiomass.co

Free, online, powerful audio editing tool. Can be used on any device. Intuitive interface. Great filters to remove background noise.

Did you know? People prefer to listen at 200 words per minute but read at a faster rate of approximately 300 words.

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AI tools

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�Image

MidJourney
RunwayML
Canva
Skybox
Firefly
Craiyon
Hotpot

Audio

Wellsaidlabs
11labs
Play.ht
Soundraw

Presentation

Tome
ChatGPT

Chatbot

ChatGPT
Bing
Google Bard
Claude

More

AIReady for eLearning
Writer.ai for Writing
Your current tools

Video

Synthesia
Vyond
Runwayml

Artificial Intelligence

Tool Landscape

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Artificial Intelligence

Conversational Chatbot

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ChatGPT

Get your questions answered� GPT 3.5 v/s GPT 4

Google Bard

Claude.ai

Bing

ChatGPT, Google Bard, Claude.ai and Bing are all AI-powered chatbots that can understand natural language questions and provide responses. While they have similarities, there are some key differences to understand as a novice user.

Let's start with ChatGPT, developed by OpenAI. It's been around the longest and is very conversational. You can ask it complex questions and it will try to provide detailed answers. It's not connected to the internet, so the information it provides is only based on what it was trained on up to 2021.

ChatGPT is efficient at generating and summarizing text requests. Bard continually draws information from the internet, so it has the latest information. Bard does a better job of answering questions with more relevant information. These chatbots are still being trained as users submit feedback, so there may be changes.

Claude.ai is developed by Anthropic to be helpful, harmless, and honest. It aims to give responses that are true and safe. You can ask Claude for summaries, simple explanations, and to generate content. It tends to be more careful than ChatGPT.

Lastly, Bing search engine has integrated some AI chatbot functions, but is more focused on providing links and summaries to answer questions, rather than long detailed responses. The AI features are still in early stages.

In summary - ChatGPT is most conversational, Claude focuses on truthful simple answers, Google Bard aims to add creativity and up-to-date info, and Bing provides shorter answers focused on web search results. I hope this high-level comparison helps provide a sense of their unique approaches as you get started! Let me know if you have any other questions.

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AI Generated Images

hotpot.ai

Ai tool with easy-to-edit templates. Well-trained AI. Paid Options.

craiyon.com

Formerly DALL·E mini, an AI model that can draw images from any text prompt!

Text Prompt: A blue frog with a red hat sitting on a mushroom in the middle of a beautiful forest!

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Ok now on to some interesting new stuff. Recently, you might have heard about AI that can generate images based on text prompts you feed them. This is potentially useful for different learning projects when you can’t find the photo you need. For example, let’s say you need a picture of a construction worker running away from a tower crane that is about to fall. You may be able to use these services to generate that image.

Here, I tested the AI for 2 of these new but popular platforms. I asked the AI to make me an image of a blue frog with a red hat sitting on a mushroom in the middle of a beautiful forest!

Hotpot’s AI is a bit better trained in creating a more realistic image. Craiyon’s AI is still very young and not that accurate, but we have a very cute frog with those eyes.

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AI Generated Images

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Firefly

only trained on content that’s licensed or out of copyright — not work from artists across the internet

Hotpot.ai

Canva

Craiyon.com

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AI Generated Images

Midjourney

Discord based platform with amazing image generation

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AI Generated 3D Images

Skybox

FREE!

Generate 360° images on the fly.

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Demo

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AI Generated Images & Videos

RunwayML

All in one Media Generator

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Artificial Intelligence

Create Videos

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Synthesia.io

Create videos from text

ChatGPT

Tome

QuillBot

Demo

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Create and Transcribe Voiceover

wellsaidlabs.com

Create a realistic AI voice over for all your digital content. Very high quality. Fast. Great for narration.

(like Speechify.com or readloud.net)

sonix.ai

Automated transcription, translation and subtitle creation in 35+ languages. Accurate. Speaker labeling. Reasonable pricing. Huge time saver.

Did you know? People prefer to listen at 200 words per minute but read at a faster rate of approximately 300 words.

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Sample 1

Otter.ai

Rev.com

Murf.ai

Play.ht

Sample 2

Now let’s talk about voice over for a bit.

To create realistic voice over generated by AI, WellSaid is your go to. In most cases for narrations, not for content that actually require voice acting, the voice over produced by WellSaid AI is virtually indistinguishable from human voice over. Let’s listen to a short sample!

An alternative to WellSaid is Speechify. But this one doesn’t appear to be Powered by an AI. It’s higher quality text-to-speech engine.

Then there’s another AI powered platform called Sonix.ai. It takes your training videos and generates transcripts for them which you can download as a document or common closed captions file formats. This makes our lives infinitely easier when optimizing content for accessibility. You create subtitles for hours of instructional videos in a matter of minutes.

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Royalty-Free

Music

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storyblocks.com

pixabay.com

free-stock-music.com

Soundraw.io

Make your own AI-powered music

Demo

YouTube Music Library

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Artificial Intelligence

Generative presentations

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Tome

AI Presentation Builder

Demo based on just this phrase ->

ChatGPT

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Architecture

Write a poem about pizza…

Again??

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AI integrated eLearning

AIReady

Arthalearning.com/aiready

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Interact & Engage

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Present Powerfully

Audio Support

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Yoodli

https://app.yoodli.ai/ Free AI-based Communication Coach. , Public Speaking App

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Present Powerfully

Audio Support

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Auphonic

https://auphonic.com/ Free AI-based sound engineer – Use for 2 hours per month for free!

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Polls, Quizzes

Interactive content

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Mentimeter

Real-time polls, wordclouds, presentations

Like Polleverywhere

GO TO Menti.com and enter code:

6612 6183

results

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Polls, Quizzes

Interactive content

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Mentimeter

Kahoot

Genially

Build Presentations, Infographics, Gamification, Interactive image, Video presentation, Guide, Training materials

bit.ly/GeniallywithGG

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Polls, Quizzes

Interactive content

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Mentimeter

Kahoot

Genially

Flourish

Data visualization and storytelling – bought by Canva

bit.ly/FlourishwithGG

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Engage and Collaborate

In Virtual Spaces

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Kumospace

Zoom alternate, a 2D Metaverse

Like gather.town

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Thank You

https://bit.ly/ToolswithGG

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Garima Gupta

linkedin.com/in/garimako�garima@arthalearning.com