TOP 10 TOOLS 2007 & 2009
Carmen Holotescu

Carmen teaches in the Automation and Computer Science Faculty of the Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania, and runs the eLearning firm Timsoft. Her blog is the eLearningBlog.  She tweets at @cam13

Carmen's Top 10 Tools as at 20 May 2009

1. cirip.eu

2. twitter

3. delicious

4. screencastle

5. slideshare

6. prezi

7. spezify

8. photopeach

9. vocaroo

10. seesmic

Carmen's Top 10 Tools as at 8 August 2007

1. Firefox - the safe window to explore and to communicate with the world

2. Bloglines - keeps my RSS feeds collection (over 1200 feeds) containing blogs, useful sites, online courses I run, a lot of search feeds, and tracks all the work with the following tools, because all provide RSS feeds; can be seen as a social network for loosely coupled communities of interest, you can discover new feeds, check feeds notoriety

3. b2evolution - the OS platform that hosts my blog - an important part of my virtual profile, keeping my projects, reflections, studies, conversations with my community in blogosphere, with partners in

4. Technorati -  the place where you can listen and find new information, voices, conversations in World Live Web (RSS feeds + blogs)

5. del.icio.us -  the wonderful tool which keeps my resources collections, also those built together with different learning / practice communities in which I am part, and together with millions of users

6. Moodle the OS LMS; wonderful together with Sloodle and LAMS

7. flickr -  storing my pictures, the learning resources consisting from a picture, a description, conversation; a huge puzzle of people sensivity, so many facets of the world

8. Slideshare - repository for presentations - now also with audio support

9. dotSub - video clips which can be collaborativelly translated

10. Last but not least Open Educational Practices and Resources as an important concept incorporating CC, OS, Web2.0, so everything above