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
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.
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
- 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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