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 >>

For people new to the concepts of social media and reviewing their tool set, is Twitter a good choice as a tool? Thus, my opinion is: Twitter is not a tool for people who are new to social media and the use of social media for personal learning and work. There is one exception to this. MORE >>

Among the many things my colleague Jane Hard does for our community is to compile the Top 100 Tools for learning each year. Here are my tools, in no particular order: WordPress  is how I host and write this Learnlets blog, thinking out loud. OmniGraffle is the tool I use to diagram, one of the ways I understand and communicate things. MORE >>

It will search hashtags or keywords and dump the data in a google spreadsheet. It is a Twitter analytics tool. Crowdbooster is another Twitter analytics tool that gives you a lot of interesting charts and graphs and data. I’ve been looking for a tool like this and grateful that Avi Kaplan told me about Snapbird. MORE >>

Among other things, the Center maintains a list of the Top 100 Tools for Learning. 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. Google Search. Tags: Tools MORE >>