My Votes for the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2011

Posted by Michael Rees on March 1, 2011

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These are my tool choices to contribute to the top 100 tools for learning list for 2011. All bona fide teachers can contribute by following the rules on the contributions page. This year I am using the blog post contribution option so that I keep a record of my votes.

Windows Live Writer for blog posts like this and web page publishing on WordPress sites
WordPress blogs for research, comment and as a teaching tool
Google Reader for ongoing discovery of new information and trends from a large collection of blogs, as well as reading and assessing student blogs
EverNote for information gathering of all kinds that can be searched and recovered later with ease
Google Sites for research, curriculum planning, work group collaboration, educational materials dissemination and a host of other uses
Dropbox for file syncing and backup, and sharing with others both staff and students
Camtasia for screencast capture and editing
Twitter for personal use, research and teaching
Google Chrome and its apps and extensions from the web store for a whole range additional information gathering, editing and dissemination for a wide range of media and structured data
Diigo for link repositories, group sharing and web slide shows

It was hard to eliminate this second list of tools that I use a lot but just failed to make it into my top 10:

Yammer for private discussions with colleagues in my institution
PowerPoint for slide presentations
Archive.org for free media storage particularly audio and video
Skype for research, research students, and online project meetings
Slideshare for presentations for teaching, research and administration
Mendeley for references and PDF files of papers
SnagIt for screen capture and image editing
Elluminate for webinars
Adobe Digital Editions for online reading of PDF and ebook files
Windows Live Photo Gallery for image and photo collections and simple editing

On the whole I am moving all my app use online where the bulk of my data is stored in any case.

Michael Rees

I am an IT academic interested in Web 2.0 application development and use, social media tools for organisations and individuals, virtualisation and cloud computing applications.

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