The Future of Learning

Tidy Favorites

Tidy Favorites describes itself as "a next-generation program that makes working with bookmarks safer, faster and easier. Intuitively designed and fully customizable to suit your exact needs".

Its features include:

• Find websites instantly by viewing easy-to-recognize thumbnail images
• Open, copy, delete and update bookmarks in a single click
• Drag and drop to resize and rearrange bookmark thumbnails
• Add temporary links to a "stack" keeping your Tidy Favorites looking tidy
• Search through any website in seconds using a Command Line
• Use the same list of bookmarks in every browser - IE, Firefox, Opera, etc.

Tidy Favorites

Twitterlights

twitter + i-Lighter = twitterlights

If you find something you want to send to your Twitter followers send it through i-Lighter

On any web page you are reading, Right Click and click Twitter This!

Everything you i-Light is stored in your web-based i-Lighter account for easy retrieval!

Twitterlights

LearnTech News Update - 16 Nov

LearnTech News provides additional news aboutl learning tools, resources, etc.  Here are some recent postings:

• 7 things you should know about Ustream
  From Educause. Ustream is an interactive web streaming platform that lets users broadcast their own channels on the Ustream network or on a third-party website. Ustream is one of the 25 FREE Tools. More Ustream readings
• Taglocity is a non-disruptive email overload and information sharing solution for agile enterprises.  Taglocity for Outlook just released - free
• Popacular - a list of the most popular bookmarks from Delicious
• Twingr - you can create a microblogging community and communicate with friends and other people that share your same interests. More microblogging tools

View the other postings at LearnTech News page at the main C4LPT website.

Corporate Learning Trends & Innovations 2008

Don't forget the Corporate Learning Trends and Innovations online conference begins on Monday.  The conference is hosted by Tony Karrer, Jay Cross and George Siemens.

I'm on first (Monday at 4pm GMT - that's 8 am Pacific) with my presentation of the 25 FREE Tools every learning professional should have in their toolbox and then participating in a Tools discussion (on Tuesday at 4 pm GMT) with Tony and Robin Good. Join us!

Find out more at the website - and also join the community where you can have discussions with all the hosts and presenters.

Moneytopia

Learn more about managing your money while having fun — play Moneytopia!

FINRA created this  game with members of the US military and their spouses in mind - although suitable for all.

Moneytopia

Visual Bookmarks

Ever wanted to have all your favourite internet sites just one click away and displayed with cool images on your own personal webpage? Then check out MyClusta.

Visual Bookmarks

Live Blogging at DevLearn

I am at the E-Learning Guild's DevLearn conference in San Jose, and Mark Oehlert is currently live blogging Tim O'Reilly's keynote using CoverItLive.  You can access it here: blogoehlert.typepad.com/eclippings/2008/11/oreilly-keynote-from-devlearn-08.html

UPDATE

Here's Clark Quinn's Concept Map of Tim O'Reilly's keynote, which adds a further perspective on the content.

LinkedInABox

Do you have a LinkedIn account?  Then you might be interested in this widget that can be embedded on any web page and provides a summary of your personal profile, as presented in your LinkedIn account.  You can choose the atrributes to display

inkedInABox

RefSeek

RefSeek (rĕf-sēk) is a web search engine for students and researchers. RefSeek aims to make academic information easily accessible to everyone. RefSeek searches more than one billion documents, including web pages, books, encyclopedias, journals, and newspapers.

RefSeek

SimplyBox

Quickly and visually share with your students/colleagues a world of educational content the Web offers - engage them!

• Capture / share web videos, part of pages, pictures, photos - add your thoughts and get theirs!
• Complements other Digital Learning solutions.
• Since SimplyBox is web based, you and your students/colleagues can access the information from anywhere and from any computer.

SimplyBox