Kevin Blissett: Out of the Cave » tools http://www.kevinblissett.com/blog Curriculum, Classroom Technology, Social Media, Leadership, China Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:06:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Top eLearning Tools http://www.kevinblissett.com/blog/2009/04/21/top-elearning-tools/ http://www.kevinblissett.com/blog/2009/04/21/top-elearning-tools/#comments Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:12:33 +0000 Kevin Blissett http://kevinblissett.wordpress.com/?p=206 Jane Hart at Jane’s E-Learning Tip of the Day lists her compilation below of the top 10 e-tools for learners and top 10 e-tools for professionals (hat tip: David Hopkins at eLearning Blog//Don’t Waste Your Time).

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:

  1. Google Search
  2. YouTube
  3. Firefox
  4. Twitter
    Wikipedia
  5. Delicious
  6. Facebook
    Gmail
    Google Reader
    Skype

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

  1. Delicious
  2. Twitter
  3. Skype
  4. Slideshare
  5. Google Reader
  6. Google Docs
  7. Audacity
    Google Search
    Moodle
    Ning
    PowerPoint
    SnagIt

I’m currently using almost all of these tools, and I’m slowly introducing more of them to my students. Many of the tools have had a profound impact on the way I teach and keep up to date in education, and on the way my students learn and produce.

I might also add Digg to the list as I use it often to find top articles on topics of interest.

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  1. Take a look at your lengthy to-do list.
  2. Organize pc files and folders.
  3. Do some old-fashioned work.
  4. Use your mobile unit.
  5. Clean out your workspace.

As resourceful educators, it’s not hard to find things to do offline:

  • Talk with a colleague.
  • Work on lesson plans/units of inquiry.
  • Mark assignments/assessments.
  • Call some parents.
  • Read one of those things used at one time in the classroom–a book.
  • Teach!

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Charles Sipe of School Tools Blog introduces some absolutely incredible sites for making flashcards online. These can obviously be used for a myriad of educational purposes. One example:

Quizlet

Unlike Cramberry, Quizlet allows you to search and find flash card sets created by other users. A nice feature of this site is that it allows you to play games with the flash card sets. In

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