I came across this ineteresting classification of eLearning Tools the other day - many of which I had not heard of before: http://c4lpt.co.uk/top100tools/best-of-breed/. If you click on the links on the page, they just go to a short description on the same site - not very useful. You have to do a search to find the actual website hosting the tool mentioned.
Despite all the criticism often leveled at PowerPoint, it comes out as 4th most popular tool in their analysis: http://c4lpt.co.uk/top100tools/analysis-2014/. Used properly, PowerPoint is an extremely flexible and powerful tool providing visual input and animation. However, many use it as a memory jogger and just place multiple bullet points on their slides - so called "death by bullet points". I posted a short video on YouTube on how to rather use PowerPoint: http://youtu.be/sICh1PNjFM4.
All of this can be overwhelming but the conclusion is don't make it complicated for yourself or for your students!
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