As mentioned in earlier posting, this year I am building two lists - Top Tools for Learners and Top Tools for Learning Professionals based on contributions received. Although this year's activity has only been open for a few weeks we are seeing some clear leaders.
Top 10 Tools for Learners
The current Top 10 list of tools for learners, based on contribution of 47 Learners AS AT 4 APRIL is:
Complete list of tools in the list so far is available at Top Tools for Learning 2009 in the BLUE column.
As everyone is a Learner, this list is open to ANYONE contribute. Just add your selection using the
online form here.
Top 10 Tools for Learning Professionals
The current top 10 tools for learning professionals to use in their own professional practice for creating learning "solutions" for others and their own productivity is AS AT 4 APRIL as follows, based on the contributions of 21 learning professionals
- Delicious
- Skype
- Slideshare
- Google Reader
- Google Docs
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Audacity
Google Search
Moodle
Ning
PowerPoint
SnagIt
Complete list of tools in the list so far is available at Top Tools for Learning 2009 in the CREAM column.
You can see the individual contributions here: 2009 Contributions
If you are a learning professional and you'd like to contribute to this list, find out how on the on the
Share your Top 10 Tools for
Learning Professionals page.
Jane, thanks for sharing this. Good to see social media tools featuring here.
Wondering if Firefox itself should qualify as a tool for learning. Those who responded with Firefox as one of their top tools, do they intend to refer to 'Internet' or 'Google Search' actually? Any ideas...
If that's the case Google Search would be a winner by a even bigger margin. No prizes for that one :-)
Posted by: Amit | 04 April 2009 at 03:39 PM
Amit, none of these are learning tools - per se, but that is exactly what makes them powerful, cos they are tools we use for working, playing and learning. We now longer need to have separate learning tools; learning, working and playing are all merging, as they should. BTW In 2007 Firefox was the #1 tools, in 2008 it was #2 - as voted for by hundreds of learning professionals worldwide, here's the link to 2008 Top 100 Tools list - http://c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/top100.html
Posted by: Jane Hart | 04 April 2009 at 03:47 PM
Jane, I do understand your point that none of them are learning tools. I am actually not a Firefox person so my perspective was that Firefox is another 'dumb' browser and can do only so much. But then, I did some Google search (which is my favourite learning tool BTW) and found this interesting post by Michael Feldstein (2006) - http://mfeldstein.com/firefox_as_an_e_learning_tool/
Posted by: Amit | 04 April 2009 at 06:41 PM
Amit - yes exactly; it's the extensons that make it much more than a browser; see what those who selected it think of here - http://c4lpt.co.uk/Top100Tools/firefox.html
Posted by: Jane Hart | 04 April 2009 at 06:50 PM