Top 100 Tools for Learning 2008
The Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies have recently finished revising their list of Top 100 Tools for Learning 2008. Their list has been compiled from the contributions of over 160 learning professionals from both education and workspace learning. They each shared their Top 10 Tools for Learning for their own personal learning, productivity and creating learning.
Their Top 10 are:
- 1. del.icio.us
- 2. Firefox
- 3. Google Reader
- 4. Skype
- 5. Google Search
- 6. Wordpress
- 7. PowerPoint
- 8. Gmail
- 9. Moodle
- 10. Audacity
Their own list hosts some more details about each tool, whether it be downloaded, hosted, free, the description, and the previous statistics since 2007. The list as a whole is interesting as it gives an insight into what these professionals use on a daily basis.
Not only that, it has uncovered a number of interesting facts. For one, Firefox has come out way on top. The list includes Firefox at number 2 with Internet Explorer is at 61, Opera 74 Safari is about 88th. It would be interesting to find out why, or rather what particular Firefox features are being used by learning professionals. Plugins anyone?
Del.icio.us, top of the list is described as a social bookmarking tool. From both a researching and way of organising your learning perspective, I would have put del.icio.us out on top. The network ability also allows you to browse your contacts, which usually turns up something that’s not just interesting but useful and relevant because some of my contacts interests usually cross over with my own.
I did find it strange that Audacity has managed to squeeze into the top 10, ahead of other contenders like Wikipedia, Word, Google Scholar, and Blogs. The little sound editor/recorder must be more useful in ways that I had never thought about before. Perhaps for free and easy Podcasting?
Twitter is fast on the rise, moving up from 43 to number 19 over the last year. It seems it’s growth in popularity has given it a growth in usefulness.
The list is constantly being updated, and Jane, from E-learning Pick of the Day is asking What are your Top 10 favorites? She have also extracted the contributions from workplace learning professionals to create the Top 100 Tools for Workplace Learning.
So what are my Top 10 Tools for Learning? In no particular order:
- Firefox
- Google (Gmail, Search, Scholar, Reader, Calendar) I’ve thrown these four categories together.
- Science Direct
- del.icio.us
- Eclipse
- TextEdit/Notepad
- Word
- Keynote
- PhotoShop
- Moodle
A couple of honorable mentions go to some of the tools that I have left out, such as flickr, twitter, wordpress, and blogs. Although I do use thes on a regular basis and can see the potential usefulness from a learning perspecitve, they’ve so far been more useful to my learning outside of my academic/profesion. Hopefully with the start of this new blog, I will be able to utilise them in such a way :) So what are your Top 10 Tools for Learning?
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