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TOP 10 TOOLS 2007
Jorge Gonçalves
Jorge is a chemistry Professor at the University of Porto,
Portugal, and started using e-learning with his students two
years ago. In April 2006 he decided to start
Learning Online Info to serve as a repository of
interesting links about e-learning and educational
technologies.
Jorge's Top 10 Tools as at 31 July 2007
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Moodle - Moodle and WebCT are
the two platforms
currently available
in my University.
I’ve tried both and
decided to use
Moodle for its
simplicity and
because it’s open
source software
-
Firefox and
ScribeFire
- Firefox
is my preferred browser. I use it with a lot of
add-ons. The one I use most is ScribeFire,
one of the best blog editors available
-
Bloglines - I open Bloglines every morning to
read my RSS feeds. I’ve tried Google Reader but I
returned to Bloglines. I love the “Keep New” and
“Clip This” features.
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Blogger
and
WordPress
- I started
blogging with Blogger
but now I am moving my
blogs to WordPress
- Google Tools - I use many tools from Google. I use
Google
for searching, Gmail for email
and chat and now I’m starting to explore
Google Docs & Spreadsheets
- MS Office - I can’t imagine my
work without
Word,
Excel and
PowerPoint
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Furl
- I use Furl to manage and share my bookmarks. Like with
Bloglines and Google Reader I’ve tried del.icio.us but returned to
Furl. No particular reason for that, but I prefer
Furl.
Twango - I use Twango
for media sharing. The service is great: fast and
very easy to use. They are now being acquired by
Nokia.
SnagIt - I
use SnagIt to
screen captures and basic pictures editing. Works
perfectly well and fills all my needs.
Copernic Desktop Search
- Nowadays I have so many files in my computers that I
need a tool like Copernic Desktop Search to find
them. It’s a light and very fast application. I
tried others but Copernic is my preferred.
What are your
Top 10 tools - for
your own personal working and learning
and/or
creating, delivering or supporting others' learning?
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