I don’t know how my friend and colleague Jane Hart does it. In addition to implementing social learning systems for universities and corporations, she leads workshops on social learning and somehow finds time to maintain the most useful learning site on the net, the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies.
Among other things, the Center maintains a list of the Top 100 Tools for Learning. The list compiles the Top 10 lists of 195 learning professionals. It’s a fantastic resource.
Two years back, the most popular tools were Firefox, Delicious, Google Search, Skype, and PowerPoint. Currently, the top tools are Twitter, Delicious, Google Reader, Google Docs, and SlideShare. Collaboration and sharing are edging out searching and authoring.
Jane’s instructions for compiling your Top 10 list:
Please provide the names of your 10 favourite tools for creating learning for others, for your own professional practice or personal productivity PLUS a sentence or two why you like each one.
Here are some definitions as well as guidelines on choosing your tools:
Definitions
- By “learning” we mean both formal and informal learning – as well as performance support
- By “tools” we mean software, online tools and services
Jay’s Top Ten
- Aggregator – Informal Learning Flow http://flow.informl.com/
- Delicious
- Google Reader
- Posterous
- Gmail
- WordPress
- Wikipedia
- Google Search
- YouTube
Other must-see aspects of the Centre:
Connexions, a Who’s Who in the world of learning
Showcase of formal and informal learning solutions
Social Learning, including how to build a social learning strategy
Library, with thousands of links to articles, videos and presentations on learning technology
Disclaimer: Jane is a member of togetherLearn.
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Interesting to note that Twitter’s rise to fame really is the #1 author of new content on the web. I real link here must be the use of the mobile devices. I helps to highlight for me, a Project Manger for Content Authoring in the eLearning industry, the tidle way of possibilities for content for mobile devices.
Thanks for noting the trend change.
Doug Hanson
Good list Jay. I’m new to Posterous but I think it has great potential. Twitter? Although it still has many doubters, I have formed great relationships and found it to be a great source of information.