Thank you to Jane Hart for her Top 100 Tools for Learning 2010 list. The list is the result of input from 545 people worldwide who shared their top tools. Top100 Tools for Learning 2010 View more presentations from Jane Hart.
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Top 100 tools for learning in 2010
October 19th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Resources, Tools & applications, Trends
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What’s in a book?
October 5th, 2010 · No Comments · Learning & teaching, Networked learning, Opinion, Resources, Tools & applications, Trends
A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together. Norman Cousins There was some interesting discussion last week at the Strategic Technology Summit in Brisbane around e-books. Their position in the realm of emerging technologies, we decided, was very much reliant on our [...]
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Moodle tool guide for teachers
May 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Learning & teaching, Resources, Tools & applications
Thanks to colleague Mark Smithers at RMIT for pointing out Joyce Seitzinger’s Moodle tool guide for teachers : useful for identifying the ‘best tool for the job’ if Moodle is the online space of choosing.
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Get started with Diigo
April 28th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Resources, Tools & applications, UNFED
As promised in my UNFED session today here’s a summary of sites and links to get you started with the social bookmarking tool Diigo. Diigo (pronounced as Dee’go) is a social bookmarking tool, collaborative research tool, and knowledge-sharing community rolled into one. Favourite sites can be saved online for access from any computer, and persistent [...]
Social bookmarking
April 12th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Bb staff announcements, bbstaff, Research, Resources, Tools & applications, UNFED
One of the most useful technologies for academics is social bookmarking. Regardless of what tool you choose to use (determined largely by your community of practice) the service allows you to save favourite sites online (as opposed to your personal browser), and to share these with a team or network. At UNSW we’ve been trialling [...]
Getting the good DiRT
January 20th, 2010 · No Comments · Connections & collaboration, Resources, Tools & applications
I’ve joined the Digital Research Tools (DiRT) wiki in order to contribute to a wonderful collaborative resource that is managed by Lisa Spiro from RICE University. The wiki “collects information about tools and resources that can help scholars (particularly in the humanities and social sciences) conduct research more efficiently or creatively.” Pages of resources include: [...]
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Recording with your iPod
January 6th, 2010 · No Comments · Resources, Tools & applications
I’ve had a few people ask me for details of the voice recorder I use to do podcasts, and today have been shown another option so shall document both here. To date I have used the TuneTalk Stereo from Belkin. It’s usable with a Nano or standard iPod but not the Touch or iPhone. The [...]
Cacoo: collaborative drawing tool
January 4th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Resources, Tools & applications
Cacoo is still a bit buggy but has potential for those wanting to construct diagrams with others online and in real time. The editing tool comes with a set of very easy to use drag/drop stencils to construct flowcarts, network charts, UML, mindmaps etc. It’s also possible to upload any image onto the page. Diagrams [...]
RefSeek: search engine for students and researchers
January 4th, 2010 · No Comments · Research, Resources, Tools & applications
I’ve just come across an alternative search engine tool – RefSeek which may be of interest. Currently in public beta, RefSeek aims to ‘make academic information easily accessible to everyone’ and ‘searches more than one billion documents, including web pages, books,encyclopedias, journals, and newspapers’. RefSeek’s greatest appeal I think is it’s clarity of relevant information [...]
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