Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009! Jane Hart is No. 1 :)

Via Jane Hart

Here is the final list of the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009, compiled (by Jane Hart!) from the contributions of 278 learning professionals – from education and workplace learning – worldwide.

Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009.

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More interesting, you might want to check out Jane Hart’s Top 100 Tools by category, and even more interesting would be the Winners & Losers in 2009.

No. 1 is Twitter! What about the rest? Explore it yourself!

Yes, Jane Hart is no doubt the Queen and King of learning tools (simply No. 1!). If you want to find the right learning tool(s) among literary thousands, the resources (links) above will do wonders.

Though, it would have been nice getting to the No. 1 learning tool climax last, rather than slide 3 (out of 102) in the presentation. But then again, not everyone has the patience to swoosh through 100 slides to get to the climax. Whatever it is, kudos to Jane Hart for her great work, and kudos again to making our learning tools selection a lot easier.

Oops, I forgot to submit my top 10 list this year (1. Notepad, 2. Paint, 3. PowerPoint…)! Next year, I will be back 🙂

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ShowDocument Strikes Google Wave Back!

ShowDocument

ShowDocument is a Net Meeting platform for instantaneous and spontaneous online meetings where people can work together on the same document at the same time. All the Net Meeting collaborative services can be used to work together at the same time.

Let’s see! It’s absolutely free of charge. It has tons of collaborative features in live mode (a dynamic web-conferencing software actually). Can it replace my urge for Google Wave? Here is a demo:

Alright, he mumbles with an accent from God knows where (he sounds drunk, too!), but until I get my Google Wave account, this tool is an interesting alternative solution 🙂

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Medpedia – A New Medical Knowledge Sharing Model

“The mission of Medpedia is to openly share and advance medical knowledge…“

Medpedia

The Medpedia Project is a long term, worldwide project to evolve a new model for sharing and advancing knowledge about health, medicine and the body among medical professionals and the general public. The Project provides a free online technology platform to any individual or organization that can benefit from its use.

Users of the platform include medical and scientific journals, medical schools, research institutes, medical associations, physicians, hospitals, for-profit and non-profit organizations, companies, expert patients, policy makers, students, non-professionals taking care of loved ones, individual medical professionals, scientists, etc …more

WOW! This is it 🙂

P.S. You might also want to check out this King Kong list for medical online resources

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What is Google Wave?

Google Wave

Here are five more interesting Google Wave resources (Via Jane Hart):

1. Google Wave’s Best Use Cases (Lifehacker)
2. Google Wave will revolutionise online classroom instruction (So You Want To Teach)
3. Google Wave: a complete guide (Mashable)
4. Learning Waves from Google (Donald Clark)
5. 6 ways that Wave is going to change your business, career and life (thinkVitamin)

Yes, Jane Hart even has her little Google Wave reading list, which I strongly recommend!

Hang on a minute! I still haven’t got my own Google Wave account (like so many others!). And when I do (one day!), I will probably have to look for a dude on Pluto to communicate with and explore its functionality and possibilities.

I love the way Google makes you feel that to you are totally irrelevant. Next, time I apply for a Google Wave (or whatever!) account, I will name myself Zucker-berg 🙂

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oneforty – A Better Way to Discover Twitter Apps

oneforty is your Twitter outfitter, with tons of resources for all things Twitter. Currently, it is tracking 1800+ apps that make Twitter even better.

oneforty

WOW! I have probably tried 5% percent of these 3rd party Twitter apps! When am I going to find the time to swoosh around for more juicy ones? At least the ‘Essentials‘ and ‘Most Popular’ sections on the site should be good indicators where to start. It is just amazing, how much Twitter has evolved the last couple of years. Oops, I mean Twitter 3rd party applications! When will Twitter itself decide to move forward a bit? 🙂

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Moodle 2.0 Tools or Web 2.0 Alternatives?

Mark Drechsler has swooshed a concise, relevant, useful and engaging presentation about Web 2.0 tools within and outside of Moodle, and how to decide which one is right for you.

Web 2.0 tools and techniques

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When considering whether to use Moodle’s inbuilt web 2.0 tools (blogs, wikis, etc), or purpose-built web 2.0 alternatives (which often can be integrated!), you need to consider (at least):

• Feature set
• Usability
• Risk

…Before making a decision. Please explore the excellent presentation above to find out more, and be swooshed with some juicy purpose-built web 2.0 alternatives worth considering. Please, don’t say you are still using Blackboard? Your choice 🙂

Click here for more Moodle presentations by Mark Drechsler. Thanks! Moodle here I come 🙂

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99 Awesome Firefox Add-ons for Educators

Via Jane Hart

“They say today’s educators are overworked and underpaid. Luckily, the web offers tools to make your professional life more manageable and less stressful. These add-ons might not change your salary, but we’re sure they’ll ease your workload.”

99 Awesome Firefox Add-ons for Educators

Here are a few juicy Firefox Add-ons from the list that sounds tasty:

• Morning Coffee
  This application facilitates your morning routine by displaying the Web sites you visit daily.
• Shooter
  This browser extension allows you to take a screenshot of a given browser page, or a specific region of it.
• Wikalong
  Embeds a wiki in the Sidebar of your browser, which corresponds to the current page you are viewing.
• Zotero
  This will help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources.
• Evernote
  This extension provides a toolbar button and context menus to easily add a selection or an entire page to Evernote.
• Zemanta
  Content recommendations while you write. Zemanta helps you enhance your emails and blogs with relevant images, videos, links or tags.
• Capture Fox
  You can capture your screen and record your voice to make screencasts (tutorials, e-lessons, etc.).
• YouTube Toolbar
  YouTube Toolbar lets you easily search, browse, share, and download your favorite videos from YouTube! Finally, its the toolbar you’ve been waiting for and it simply works.
• FoxLingo
  Translate web pages and text, learn languages, auto translate, and much more. Supports 53 languages and 36 free online translators.
• BEEweb
  Beeweb.org is portal to a series of multiplayer educational games. Spellbee.org is about literacy, Moneybee is financial literacy and algebra, Patternbee regards spatial reasoning, etc.
• CustomizeGoogle
  CustomizeGoogle is a Firefox extension that enhance Google search results by adding extra information (like links to Yahoo, Ask.com, MSN etc) and removing unwanted information (like ads and spam).
• Wolfram Alpha Google
  Display Wolfram Alpha results in Google searches. No need to switch search engines when you can use both at once.

WOW, those add-ons sounds juicy! Since I mostly use Firefox, exploring the full list too, makes whole lot of sense. Do you use Firefox? Please, don’t say you are using Internet Explorer! Good luck 🙂

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Domo Animate – Create Cartoons About Your Learning!

Via Kelly Tenkely

Domo Animate

Domo Animate enables you to create cartoons as easy as creating PowerPoint! It is very intuitive and user-friendly. Instead of asking your students to use Microsoft Word or PowerPoint to write about or present their projects, why not ask your students to create a cartoon that explores their project and what they have learned (Tell a story!).

Now, that might inspire and stimulate some creative cells in our students. What are you waiting for 🙂

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Web 2.0 – Cool Tools for Schools

Via Alexandra Francisco

Web 2.0: Cool Tools for Schools

A Wiki that helps you determine in a visual stimulating and friendly way, which tools or resources you can use for your courses, projects, lessons, etc. Cool 🙂

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Wiggio Just a Little Bit!

Wiggio is an online toolkit that makes it easy to work in groups. You can basically make a Wiggio group for any type of group you’re in (a team, study group, organization, business, project, social group, etc.) and Wiggio provides you with a cool set of tools to communicate and collaborate within the group.

Wiggio

Looks cool! But, I am not so sure that students would want their teachers sniffing around their so called study groups 🙂

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