Top Tools for Learning 2009

In 2007 and 2008, many learning professionals from around the world shared their Top 10 Tools for Learning which we used to create the Top 100 Tools for Learning.  This year I'd like your help to build two lists:

1. Top 100 Tools for Learners
2. Top 100 Tools for Learning Professionals
   

1 - THE TOP 100 TOOLS FOR LEARNERS 2009
These will be the top tools Learners use for their personal learning, be it formal or informal.  

I asked the group of learners on the MSc in E-Learning at Oxford University (where I am a Visting Lecturer) to kick-start the search for the Top Tools for Learners for me, by sharing their Top 10 Tools.  Their collective Top 10 was as follows.

1. YouTube
2. Facebook
   Google Search
   Wikipedia
5. Firefox (and extensions)
   Google Scholar
7. Google Mail
   Skype
9. PowerPoint
   Word

Contribute your own top 10 tools
This category is open to ANYONE to contribute - students in full or part-time education, workplace learners and/or lifelong learners.  Please use the online form to share your Top 10 Tools for Learners and/or encourage others to do so.

View the individual contributions - a total of 16 when I wrote this posting - in the spreadsheet.

Warch the Top 100 Tools for Learning list being built at Top 100 Tools for Learners

2 - TOP 100 TOOLS FOR LEARNING PROFESSIONALS 2009
This will be the top tools Learning Professionals use for their own productivity/learning as well as to create learning opportunities/events/experiences/solutions for others (students, employees, etc). 

A few learning professionals have already started to share their Top 10 Tools for Learning Professionals in 2009:

1. Me (Jane Hart)
2. Carol Skyring, Founder and CEO of LearnTel
3. Thomas Stone, Product Design Architect at Element K
4. Hugo Domingos, a multimédia producer and Elearning trainer for the New University of Lisboa, Portugal.

View the individual contributions so far at Top Tools for Professionals 2009 

Contribute your own Top 10 Tools for Learning Professionals
This category is open to any learning professional (from education, workplace learning or CPD). Just send me an email with the information shown on the Share your Top 10 Tools for Learning Professionals page, and I will set up a page with your list.

The Top 100 Tools for Learning Professionals list will be available shortly, once more contributions have been received.

Comments

[Maria H. Andersen]

I think it would be helpful to make some Top Ten Tools lists that are discipline-specific. For example, the eLearning tools that are most helpful for math may not be the least bit helpful for an English course, and vice versa.

Here's my 2008 Top Ten list for math: http://teachingcollegemath.com/?p=502

[Jane Hart]

Maria, I have started on some discipline-specific lists - see my 100+ Language Learning sites. Maybe Maths could be the next one!