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As part of a push for Learning Engineering , Carnegie Mellon University recently released their learning design tools. I’ve been aware of CMU’s Open Learning Initiative for a suite of reasons, and their tools for separate reasons. CMU’s tools align, largely with doing the right thing, and this is important. The more tools that make it easy to do the right thing, rich pedagogies, the better. MORE
I’ve just spent the last few days overhauling the Learning Tools Directory. Over the last year there has been quite a lot of change one way or another in terms of tools. Some tools have disappeared or died (eg gnolia), others have been acquired (eg Dimdim), some have changed their name (eg twine to evri), and some have changed focus and no longer offer what they once did. Tools MORE
As you will know I finalised the 5th Annual survey of Top 100 Tools for Learning in the middle of November 2011, and at that time placed the presentation on Slideshare. I’ve just noticed that in the subsequent two months it has been viewed over 200,000 times! You will also know, Twitter topped the list again for the 3rd year running, although in 2008 it was only ranked 11th and in … Read the rest. Social learning MORE
It’s time again for Jane Hart’s Top Learning Tools Survey , so it’s time for my personal list (and for you to submit yours). WordPress: my first learning tool is this blog. Pagico: This is a project management tool, and I have entries for all the projects and groups I work with. Those are a partial list of my learning tools. The post Top 10 Learning Tools for 2019 appeared first on Learnlets MORE
I wrote an article for Jane Hart’s Modern Workplace Learning magazine, triggered by my thought that in her tools survey, I didn’t see a lot about a certain set of reflection (c.f. last weeks posts on diagramming) and experimentation tools: meta-learning tools. Now, I don’t know much about any of these, but she mentioned PebblePad, and I noted that I’ve talked with Degreed before, and saw that HT2 has a tool called Red Panda. MORE
The Top Tools for Learning lists have now been published. There were a substantial number of new tools nominated this year so the main list has now been extended to 300 tools to accommodate them, and each of the 3 sub-lists has been increased to 150 tools. MORE
Since 2007 Jane Hart has asked working professionals for their top tools for learning — TopTools4Learning — and creates three lists from thousands of responses. Top 100 Tools for Personal & Professional Learning. Top 100 Tools for Workplace Learning. Top 100 Tools for Education. Work is learning, and learning is the work, so here are my top 10 tools for work & learning. 1Password : I call this a tool for unlearning. MORE
My excitement about technology is as a tool to help me do more and better, along the lines of Steve Jobs' "bicycles for the mind". In pretty much any job a computer, or smart phone, is the tool of your trade. Sadly I still encounter too many people who still feel that technology is being done to them. MORE
Owing to sins in my past, I not only am speaking on mobile learning at the eLearning Guild’s Learning Solutions conference e-Learning Foundations Intensive session, but also introduced the tools section. The tools will be covered by smart folks like Patti Shank, Harry Mellon, Steve Foreman, and Karen Hyder, but I was supposed to set the context. MORE
Every year of late, Jane Hart has polled about people’s top 10 learning tools. From this, she creates a list of the top 100 learning tools. Keynote is the presentation tool I use, and I create the stories I present at conferences in Keynote. OmniOutliner: another tool I use to be organized is OmniOutliner. And…while I’m a bit grumbly at their support right now, OmniGraffle is still my ‘go to’ tool for this. MORE
Like the elusive Yeti or the Loch Ness Monster, free sales tools might seem like the stuff of folklore. Free sales enablement tools do exist—and they’re actually pretty good. Whether you’re looking for free sales tools for startups, SMBs, or enterprise—we’ve got you covered. MORE
As always, I like to participate in my Internet Time Alliance colleague Jane Hart’s Top 10 Tools for Learning survey. So there’re my selections for 2021 top 10 tools for learning. So the first two tools I use are for writing: 1. My native presentation tool. MORE
Now published together with Top 100 Tools for Personal&Professional Learning 2019 Top 200 Tools for Workplace Learning 2019 Top 200 Tools for Higher Education 2019 PLUS analysis of how these tools are being used in different context, new graphics, and updated comments on the tools’ pages that show how people are using the tools. MORE
and while I will be answering the first part over the course of time with the various blog entries I’m currently drafting along, I thought for today I’d focus on trying to answer the second part: how do I make sense of social networking tools today? So it’s probably a good time now to revisit where do I get most of my learning nowadays and what digital tools do I rely on, or not, to get my daily work done. . MORE
Jane Hart compiles a list every year of the Top 10 Tools for learning. Here are my top tools this year, with last year’s position shown in brackets. I have also annotated these tools as to what part of my PKM practice they connect with: SEEK > SENSE > SHARE. 7 (new): Apple Preview: is the productivity tool I use the most, so I can focus on learning, not fighting with applications. Voting closes on 21 September. MORE
This is how it works: Make a resolution to find out how to use 10 new tools this year (say one a month) and how they might help with your personal productivity, professional learning or development, or for use in education or training, or in the enterprise for performance support or workforce collaboration. Write an initial blog post that identifies your interest in being part of the 10 Tools Challenge 2013 (or record your interest in a Comment below). MORE
The Top Tools for Learning 2019 survey will close on Friday 13 September. You will need to list your top 10 tools and say how you use them – (a) for personal or professional learning, (b) at work or (c) in […]. Have you voted for your favourites yet? If not, you can do so here. Modern Workplace Learning MORE
Following the release of the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2015 (compiled from the votes of over 2,000 learning professionals worldwide), I have been working on this year’s Guidebook, and have now created a Best of Breed Tools for Learning 2015 list, where I classify the Top 1000 tools in 30 different categories. # MORE
It’s time, once again, for Jane Hart’s excellent Top 10 Tools for Learning survey. Here are my take on the top 10 tools that support my learning. Processing Tools. I’d use a less costly tool, but…the columns feature is really helpful for annotation. MORE
Every year, and for the last 10 years, which is a huge achievement in this day and age, if you ask me, Jane Hart puts together this wonderful list of Top 100 Tools for Learning , where she encourages everyone to fill in a form , or tweet further along, or even create your own blog post, where you’d be listing your Top 10 Tools for Learning, indicating whether each of those tools would be fitting in under the following categories: . Top 10 Tools for Learning 2016. MORE
Michelle Ockers added the following 3 tools to her own toolkit in 2019. Modern Workplace Learning MORE
Jane Hart compiles a list every year of the Top 10 Tools for learning. Here are my top tools this year, with last year’s position shown in brackets. 7 (7): Apple Preview: is the productivity tool I use the most, so I can focus on learning, not fighting with applications. 2 (2): Twitter: Next to my blog, Twitter is my best learning tool and allows me to stay connected to a diverse network. Voting closes on 18 September. MORE
Is there a need for a wide variety of enterprise social tools? Adding social (collaboration & cooperation) capabilities to existing productivity tools is a better approach than using a dedicated social platform, Valyanov suggests. If so, then Microsoft’s strategy with Office365, focused on tools first and collaboration second, may be on the right track. Microsoft is also using these tools internally, as described by a senior IT staff member. MORE
Following the release of the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2015, I have been working on this year’s Guidebook, and have now created a Best of Breed Tools for Learning 2015 list, where I classify the tools in 30 categories. So here it is … 1 – MOOC platforms Khan Academy (33) | Coursera (44) | iTunesU (75) […]. Social learning MORE
Once again, Jane Hart is asking what are your top tools for learning ? All of my tools are used for personal/professional development as well as workplace learning. Some of these are not exactly what many people would consider ‘learning tools’ but any tool that gives me more time to learn, or enables learning with others, is in my opinion a learning tool. 1Password : You could call this a tool for unlearning. MORE
The Top Tools for Learning 2020 (14th Annual) survey will close on Friday 21 August. If not, you can do so by completing an online form here or else send a tweet to me, @C4LPT with your top 10 tools. I will reveal the Top 200 Tools for Learning […]. MORE
You probably don’t realize just how many ‘virtual office’ tools you use. They communicate and work together with others from a distance using online tools and software that just keeps getting better, with more of them. You can think of GotoMeeting as one popular tool. Just in our LERN organization, we use over 10 virtual office tools. Dispersed workers are just about in every large organization these days. MORE
I’ve often complained about how the tools we have make it easy to do bad design. So here’re some thoughts on tools. Authoring tools, in general, are oriented on a ‘page’ metaphor; they’re designed to provide a sequence of pages. Now, if I’m complaining about the tools making it easy to do bad things, what would be good things? That was my thinking: what would be ideal for tools to support? MORE
And one of the things I’ve been thinking about are the tools we use for LXD. But here I want to know what you are using as tools for LXD? This makes the case for tools that help scaffold these gaps in our cognition. That maps out over content, time, and tools. Therefore, tools are a plausible adjunct. My question, to you, is what tools are you using to increase the likelihood of a quality design, and how are they working for you? MORE
Jane Hart compiles a list every year of the Top 100 Tools for learning. Here are my top tools this year, with the past five years shown below. It’s interesting to note that my preferred tools have not changed that much over the years. 7: Apple Preview: is the productivity tool I use the most, so I can focus on learning, not fighting with applications. 1Password : You could call this a tool for unlearning. MORE
Florence shared that synchronous tools shouldn’t be required in asynchronous learning environments, and only to use for optional activities. The post Emerging Online Learning Tools Research Session Mindmap appeared first on Learnlets At AECT18, I dropped in on a session summarizing research on emerging technologies for online learning. MORE
The Top 100 Tools for Learning 2013 list (released today, 30 September 2013) was compiled from the votes of over 500 learning professionals (from education and workplace learning) from 48 countries. Top Tools 2013 Here are some of the highlights from this year’s list. For a fuller analyis, visit Analysis 2013 Twitter retains its no 1 position for [.]. MORE
As readers of this blog will know, I released the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2014 list on Monday 22 September – a list that I compiled from the votes of over 1,000 learning professionals worldwide. But I am constantly being asked questions like “What is the best blogging tool?” MORE
Every year, Jane Hart asks, “What are the most popular, useful, valuable, digital tools for learning?” ” and this year has added, “How has lockdown affected the tools used for learning and development in 2020?” Top Tools for Learning 2020. MORE
Jane Hart has issued her annual call for our top ten e-learning tools, and here's mine. I've named my list 'personal learning tools' because I think of learning as an activity that blends my own activities as a 'student' with those as a 'teacher'. MORE
Daniel Dennett’s Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking begins by presenting a number of tested approaches to sense-making. Here are a few that I would consider practical tools for personal knowledge mastery. He discusses Occam’s Razor , as well as ‘Occam’s Broom’, an ‘anti-thinking tool’ which is the tendency to sweep away facts that do not align with our theories. MORE
In my Pick of the Month for March, I am focusing on news about some FREE tools that I came across last month. But, if you’d like to see all the 45 links to articles and posts I shared on Twitter last month, you can find them here. If you are not on Twitter you can subscribe here to […]. Social learning MORE
Every year, Jane Hart asks, “What are the most popular digital tools for learning and why?”. Once again my responses have not changed much from my 2020 tools list. I explained last year why I used these tools. MORE
This could actually be any of three word processing tools - I use NoteTab for quick notes, and Padre for programming. This is my main audio tool. Audaciity (with LAME) is the tool I use to do this. Nothing really does the same work for me as a multimedia presentation tool. I haven''t updated my list for Jane Hart''s overall review for some time now, but it''s worth a revisit. This post is prompted by Harold Jarche''s. MORE
We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.” — Father John Culkin (1967) in ‘ A Schoolman’s Guide to Marshall McLuhan’ If every medium influences communication, then what effect does that have on our own learning as well as how we help others to learn? We choose our tools, and then they take is in a certain direction, of which we may not be conscious. Knowing which tool to select becomes critical, especially in communications. MORE
It was in 2007 that I compiled the first Top 100 Tools for Learning from the votes of learning professionals worldwide and have done so every year since then. This year to mark the 10th anniversary I have compiled the TOP 200 TOOLS FOR LEARNING 2016. The full list appears in the left-hand sidebar; follow the links to find out more about each of the tools. The slideset of the Top 200 Tools is embedded at the bottom of this page. MORE
Microlearning is crucial for ongoing, instant access training and can positively impact safety and health regulation adherence, keeping your front lines on brand, and ensuring your team has easy to access training, instruction, and tools for processes. List of Microlearning Tools. Below is a full list of tools that can be used to create microlearning elements, focusing on the three most popular types—video, images, and slideshows. Video Tools. Image Tools. MORE
This year’s Top 100 Tools for Learning list (the 6th Annual Survey) has been compiled from the votes of 582 learning professionals worldwide – 55% working in education, 45% working in non-educational organizations. The top tool for the 4 th year running is Twitter, with both YouTube (2 nd ) and Google Docs (aka Google Drive) (3 rd ) retaining their places for the 3 rd year in succession. Once again the list is dominated by free online social tools. Top Tools 2012 MORE
Tools Related Topics Harold Jarche
AUGUST 10, 2021
Every year, Jane Hart asks, “What are the most popular digital tools for learning and why?”. Once again my responses have not changed much from my 2020 tools list. I explained last year why I used these tools.
Jane Hart
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
The Top Tools for Learning lists have now been published. There were a substantial number of new tools nominated this year so the main list has now been extended to 300 tools to accommodate them, and each of the 3 sub-lists has been increased to 150 tools.
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Clark Quinn
JULY 7, 2021
As always, I like to participate in my Internet Time Alliance colleague Jane Hart’s Top 10 Tools for Learning survey. So there’re my selections for 2021 top 10 tools for learning. So the first two tools I use are for writing: 1. My native presentation tool.
Harold Jarche
AUGUST 13, 2020
Every year, Jane Hart asks, “What are the most popular, useful, valuable, digital tools for learning?” ” and this year has added, “How has lockdown affected the tools used for learning and development in 2020?” Top Tools for Learning 2020.
Xyleme
DECEMBER 2, 2020
Like the elusive Yeti or the Loch Ness Monster, free sales tools might seem like the stuff of folklore. Free sales enablement tools do exist—and they’re actually pretty good. Whether you’re looking for free sales tools for startups, SMBs, or enterprise—we’ve got you covered.
Jane Hart
SEPTEMBER 18, 2019
Now published together with Top 100 Tools for Personal&Professional Learning 2019 Top 200 Tools for Workplace Learning 2019 Top 200 Tools for Higher Education 2019 PLUS analysis of how these tools are being used in different context, new graphics, and updated comments on the tools’ pages that show how people are using the tools.
Clark Quinn
AUGUST 18, 2020
It’s time, once again, for Jane Hart’s excellent Top 10 Tools for Learning survey. Here are my take on the top 10 tools that support my learning. Processing Tools. I’d use a less costly tool, but…the columns feature is really helpful for annotation.
Harold Jarche
SEPTEMBER 2, 2019
Since 2007 Jane Hart has asked working professionals for their top tools for learning — TopTools4Learning — and creates three lists from thousands of responses. Top 100 Tools for Personal & Professional Learning. Top 100 Tools for Workplace Learning. Top 100 Tools for Education. Work is learning, and learning is the work, so here are my top 10 tools for work & learning. 1Password : I call this a tool for unlearning.
Jane Hart
AUGUST 11, 2020
The Top Tools for Learning 2020 (14th Annual) survey will close on Friday 21 August. If not, you can do so by completing an online form here or else send a tweet to me, @C4LPT with your top 10 tools. I will reveal the Top 200 Tools for Learning […].
Jane Hart
JANUARY 2, 2020
In 2020 we’ll be highlighting some tools for learning in a series of blog posts. Some tools may already appear on the Top Tools for Learning 2019 list, others may be new to the list.
Clark Quinn
SEPTEMBER 24, 2019
And one of the things I’ve been thinking about are the tools we use for LXD. But here I want to know what you are using as tools for LXD? This makes the case for tools that help scaffold these gaps in our cognition. That maps out over content, time, and tools. Therefore, tools are a plausible adjunct. My question, to you, is what tools are you using to increase the likelihood of a quality design, and how are they working for you?
Luis Suarez
SEPTEMBER 13, 2016
Every year, and for the last 10 years, which is a huge achievement in this day and age, if you ask me, Jane Hart puts together this wonderful list of Top 100 Tools for Learning , where she encourages everyone to fill in a form , or tweet further along, or even create your own blog post, where you’d be listing your Top 10 Tools for Learning, indicating whether each of those tools would be fitting in under the following categories: . Top 10 Tools for Learning 2016.
Clark Quinn
OCTOBER 24, 2018
Florence shared that synchronous tools shouldn’t be required in asynchronous learning environments, and only to use for optional activities. The post Emerging Online Learning Tools Research Session Mindmap appeared first on Learnlets At AECT18, I dropped in on a session summarizing research on emerging technologies for online learning.
Xyleme
MARCH 23, 2018
Microlearning is crucial for ongoing, instant access training and can positively impact safety and health regulation adherence, keeping your front lines on brand, and ensuring your team has easy to access training, instruction, and tools for processes. List of Microlearning Tools. Below is a full list of tools that can be used to create microlearning elements, focusing on the three most popular types—video, images, and slideshows. Video Tools. Image Tools.
Clark Quinn
AUGUST 28, 2019
It’s time again for Jane Hart’s Top Learning Tools Survey , so it’s time for my personal list (and for you to submit yours). WordPress: my first learning tool is this blog. Pagico: This is a project management tool, and I have entries for all the projects and groups I work with. Those are a partial list of my learning tools. The post Top 10 Learning Tools for 2019 appeared first on Learnlets
Clark Quinn
APRIL 11, 2019
As part of a push for Learning Engineering , Carnegie Mellon University recently released their learning design tools. I’ve been aware of CMU’s Open Learning Initiative for a suite of reasons, and their tools for separate reasons. CMU’s tools align, largely with doing the right thing, and this is important. The more tools that make it easy to do the right thing, rich pedagogies, the better.
Nine Shift
OCTOBER 31, 2019
You probably don’t realize just how many ‘virtual office’ tools you use. They communicate and work together with others from a distance using online tools and software that just keeps getting better, with more of them. You can think of GotoMeeting as one popular tool. Just in our LERN organization, we use over 10 virtual office tools. Dispersed workers are just about in every large organization these days.
Jane Hart
FEBRUARY 7, 2011
I’ve just spent the last few days overhauling the Learning Tools Directory. Over the last year there has been quite a lot of change one way or another in terms of tools. Some tools have disappeared or died (eg gnolia), others have been acquired (eg Dimdim), some have changed their name (eg twine to evri), and some have changed focus and no longer offer what they once did. Tools
Jane Hart
OCTOBER 17, 2015
Following the release of the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2015 (compiled from the votes of over 2,000 learning professionals worldwide), I have been working on this year’s Guidebook, and have now created a Best of Breed Tools for Learning 2015 list, where I classify the Top 1000 tools in 30 different categories. #
Jane Hart
OCTOBER 17, 2015
Following the release of the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2015, I have been working on this year’s Guidebook, and have now created a Best of Breed Tools for Learning 2015 list, where I classify the tools in 30 categories. So here it is … 1 – MOOC platforms Khan Academy (33) | Coursera (44) | iTunesU (75) […]. Social learning
Clark Quinn
APRIL 11, 2018
I’ve often complained about how the tools we have make it easy to do bad design. So here’re some thoughts on tools. Authoring tools, in general, are oriented on a ‘page’ metaphor; they’re designed to provide a sequence of pages. Now, if I’m complaining about the tools making it easy to do bad things, what would be good things? That was my thinking: what would be ideal for tools to support?
Harold Jarche
SEPTEMBER 14, 2017
Jane Hart compiles a list every year of the Top 100 Tools for learning. Here are my top tools this year, with the past five years shown below. It’s interesting to note that my preferred tools have not changed that much over the years. 7: Apple Preview: is the productivity tool I use the most, so I can focus on learning, not fighting with applications. 1Password : You could call this a tool for unlearning.
Jane Hart
SEPTEMBER 30, 2013
The Top 100 Tools for Learning 2013 list (released today, 30 September 2013) was compiled from the votes of over 500 learning professionals (from education and workplace learning) from 48 countries. Top Tools 2013 Here are some of the highlights from this year’s list. For a fuller analyis, visit Analysis 2013 Twitter retains its no 1 position for [.].
Jane Hart
JANUARY 2, 2020
Michelle Ockers added the following 3 tools to her own toolkit in 2019. Modern Workplace Learning
Luis Suarez
SEPTEMBER 22, 2015
and while I will be answering the first part over the course of time with the various blog entries I’m currently drafting along, I thought for today I’d focus on trying to answer the second part: how do I make sense of social networking tools today? So it’s probably a good time now to revisit where do I get most of my learning nowadays and what digital tools do I rely on, or not, to get my daily work done. .
Jane Hart
APRIL 1, 2015
In my Pick of the Month for March, I am focusing on news about some FREE tools that I came across last month. But, if you’d like to see all the 45 links to articles and posts I shared on Twitter last month, you can find them here. If you are not on Twitter you can subscribe here to […]. Social learning
Harold Jarche
AUGUST 27, 2015
Jane Hart compiles a list every year of the Top 10 Tools for learning. Here are my top tools this year, with last year’s position shown in brackets. 7 (7): Apple Preview: is the productivity tool I use the most, so I can focus on learning, not fighting with applications. 2 (2): Twitter: Next to my blog, Twitter is my best learning tool and allows me to stay connected to a diverse network. Voting closes on 18 September.
Clark Quinn
FEBRUARY 14, 2017
I wrote an article for Jane Hart’s Modern Workplace Learning magazine, triggered by my thought that in her tools survey, I didn’t see a lot about a certain set of reflection (c.f. last weeks posts on diagramming) and experimentation tools: meta-learning tools. Now, I don’t know much about any of these, but she mentioned PebblePad, and I noted that I’ve talked with Degreed before, and saw that HT2 has a tool called Red Panda.
Harold Jarche
AUGUST 3, 2016
Daniel Dennett’s Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking begins by presenting a number of tested approaches to sense-making. Here are a few that I would consider practical tools for personal knowledge mastery. He discusses Occam’s Razor , as well as ‘Occam’s Broom’, an ‘anti-thinking tool’ which is the tendency to sweep away facts that do not align with our theories.
Jane Hart
AUGUST 22, 2019
The Top Tools for Learning 2019 survey will close on Friday 13 September. You will need to list your top 10 tools and say how you use them – (a) for personal or professional learning, (b) at work or (c) in […]. Have you voted for your favourites yet? If not, you can do so here. Modern Workplace Learning
Jane Hart
OCTOBER 3, 2016
It was in 2007 that I compiled the first Top 100 Tools for Learning from the votes of learning professionals worldwide and have done so every year since then. This year to mark the 10th anniversary I have compiled the TOP 200 TOOLS FOR LEARNING 2016. The full list appears in the left-hand sidebar; follow the links to find out more about each of the tools. The slideset of the Top 200 Tools is embedded at the bottom of this page.
Jane Hart
JANUARY 17, 2012
As you will know I finalised the 5th Annual survey of Top 100 Tools for Learning in the middle of November 2011, and at that time placed the presentation on Slideshare. I’ve just noticed that in the subsequent two months it has been viewed over 200,000 times! You will also know, Twitter topped the list again for the 3rd year running, although in 2008 it was only ranked 11th and in … Read the rest. Social learning
Clark Quinn
JUNE 26, 2018
Every year of late, Jane Hart has polled about people’s top 10 learning tools. From this, she creates a list of the top 100 learning tools. Keynote is the presentation tool I use, and I create the stories I present at conferences in Keynote. OmniOutliner: another tool I use to be organized is OmniOutliner. And…while I’m a bit grumbly at their support right now, OmniGraffle is still my ‘go to’ tool for this.
Harold Jarche
MAY 20, 2013
Is there a need for a wide variety of enterprise social tools? Adding social (collaboration & cooperation) capabilities to existing productivity tools is a better approach than using a dedicated social platform, Valyanov suggests. If so, then Microsoft’s strategy with Office365, focused on tools first and collaboration second, may be on the right track. Microsoft is also using these tools internally, as described by a senior IT staff member.
Jane Hart
JANUARY 8, 2013
This is how it works: Make a resolution to find out how to use 10 new tools this year (say one a month) and how they might help with your personal productivity, professional learning or development, or for use in education or training, or in the enterprise for performance support or workforce collaboration. Write an initial blog post that identifies your interest in being part of the 10 Tools Challenge 2013 (or record your interest in a Comment below).
Jane Hart
OCTOBER 1, 2012
This year’s Top 100 Tools for Learning list (the 6th Annual Survey) has been compiled from the votes of 582 learning professionals worldwide – 55% working in education, 45% working in non-educational organizations. The top tool for the 4 th year running is Twitter, with both YouTube (2 nd ) and Google Docs (aka Google Drive) (3 rd ) retaining their places for the 3 rd year in succession. Once again the list is dominated by free online social tools. Top Tools 2012
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
JULY 17, 2014
This could actually be any of three word processing tools - I use NoteTab for quick notes, and Padre for programming. This is my main audio tool. Audaciity (with LAME) is the tool I use to do this. Nothing really does the same work for me as a multimedia presentation tool. I haven''t updated my list for Jane Hart''s overall review for some time now, but it''s worth a revisit. This post is prompted by Harold Jarche''s.
Harold Jarche
JUNE 19, 2018
Once again, Jane Hart is asking what are your top tools for learning ? All of my tools are used for personal/professional development as well as workplace learning. Some of these are not exactly what many people would consider ‘learning tools’ but any tool that gives me more time to learn, or enables learning with others, is in my opinion a learning tool. 1Password : You could call this a tool for unlearning.
Clark Quinn
MARCH 22, 2010
Owing to sins in my past, I not only am speaking on mobile learning at the eLearning Guild’s Learning Solutions conference e-Learning Foundations Intensive session, but also introduced the tools section. The tools will be covered by smart folks like Patti Shank, Harry Mellon, Steve Foreman, and Karen Hyder, but I was supposed to set the context.
Jane Hart
SEPTEMBER 29, 2014
As readers of this blog will know, I released the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2014 list on Monday 22 September – a list that I compiled from the votes of over 1,000 learning professionals worldwide. But I am constantly being asked questions like “What is the best blogging tool?”
Harold Jarche
DECEMBER 17, 2016
We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.” — Father John Culkin (1967) in ‘ A Schoolman’s Guide to Marshall McLuhan’ If every medium influences communication, then what effect does that have on our own learning as well as how we help others to learn? We choose our tools, and then they take is in a certain direction, of which we may not be conscious. Knowing which tool to select becomes critical, especially in communications.
Harold Jarche
JULY 17, 2014
Jane Hart compiles a list every year of the Top 10 Tools for learning. Here are my top tools this year, with last year’s position shown in brackets. I have also annotated these tools as to what part of my PKM practice they connect with: SEEK > SENSE > SHARE. 7 (new): Apple Preview: is the productivity tool I use the most, so I can focus on learning, not fighting with applications. Voting closes on 21 September.
Euen Semple
SEPTEMBER 17, 2015
My excitement about technology is as a tool to help me do more and better, along the lines of Steve Jobs' "bicycles for the mind". In pretty much any job a computer, or smart phone, is the tool of your trade. Sadly I still encounter too many people who still feel that technology is being done to them.
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