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Top 100 SN Learning Tools

8 September 2008 No Comment

The list is compiled from the contributions of 200 learning professionals (from both education and workplace learning) who shared their Top 10 Tools for Learning both for their own personal learning/ productivity and for creating learning solutions for others. [See the individual contributions here]

THIS LIST IS CONSTANTLY BEING REVISED AS WE RECEIVE NEW OR UPDATED CONTRIBUTIONS
You are invited to share your personal Top 10 favourites

TOP 20
Key to availability: D=download; H=hosted; C=insert code onto page

Ranking

Tool

Votes

Description

Cost

Avail

2008

Spring
2008

2007

1

1

2

del.icio.us

81

del.icio.us
Social bookmarking tool

Free

H

2

2

1

Firefox

69.5

Firefox
Web browser

Free

D

3=

4

3=

Skype

56

Skype
Instant messaging,
VoIP tool

Free

D

 

3

7=

Google Reader

56

Google Reader
RSS / Feed reader

Free

H

5

5

3=

Google Search

53

Google Search
Web search tool

Free

H

6

6

6

Wordpress

48.5

Wordpress
Blogging tool

Free

H/D

7

7

5

PowerPoint

45.5

PowerPoint
Presentation software

£

D

8

11

14

Google Docs

40

Google Docs
Web-based documents

Free

H

9=

9=

9

Blogger

39

Blogger
Blogging tool

Free

H

 

9=

11

Audacity

39

Audacity
Sound editor and recorder

Free

D

11

13

12=

Moodle

37.5

Moodle
Course management system

Free

D/H

12

12

26=

Wikipedia

35.5

Wikipedia
Collaborative encyclopedia

Free

H

13

8

7=

Gmail

33.5

GMail
Web-based email

Free

H

14

15=

16

flickr

31.5

flickr
Photo storage/ sharing site (and mobile version)

Free

H

15

17=

43=

twitter

31

twitter
Microblogging tool

Free

H

16=

15=

17=

iGoogle

27

iGoogle
Personalised start page

Free

H

 

17=

22=

YouTube

27

YouTube
Video hosting/ sharing site
(and mobile version)

Free

H

18=

17=

31=

Ning

24

Ning
Social networking tool

Free

H

 

14

31=

Slideshare

24

Slideshare
Hosting
/ sharing presentations

Free

H

20

20

15

Wikispaces

23

Wikispaces
Wiki tool

Free/£

H

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