I heart Activity Streams. Over at Gartner , Craig Roth put together, just recently, a rather thought provoking blog post where he is questioning whether Activity Streams are heading in the very same direction as our Inboxes have been heading over the course of time; that one of Information Overload. mean, I * love* them to bits! MORE >>

The LCB question this month is, What Tools Should we Learn , or: The question is really about the specific tools that would make sense to learn today in order to be a valuable eLearning professional in 2015? As this image shows (click to expand), there are many web tools that can help develop critical thinking. Social Bookmarks. MORE >>

Jane mined the submissions of her delightful tools database and came up with 100+ ways to use social media for learning. Each entry is tied to a tool and a description of how it’s used. Tags: social tools We talked about building a repository of web 2.0 learning applications. Don’t go yet: there’s more. MORE >>

Interestingly enough, plenty of people have been questioning whether, now that we have got Google Plus as well, it makes sense to dump your own blog in favour of your social activities in the various social networking sites. Blogging , in short, is your own personal branding tool. Well, the answer, right now, as we stand, is No. Focus. MORE >>

This is the 5th year I have been building a Top 100 Tools for Learning list (based on the Top 10 Tools contributions of learning professionals worldwide), so I thought it would be interesting to compare my choices in the first year I ran the activity in 2007, with my choices today. So what are your Top 10 Tools for Learning? MORE >>