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TOP 10 TOOLS 2008
Judy O'Connell
In
2008 I took up the post
of Head of Library &
Information Services at
St Joseph's College,
Hunters Hill in Sydney
Australia. I'm a keen
user of Web 2.0 tools,
which supplement my
daily use of ICT to
work, laugh and play
online. I am passionate
in my search to discover
how best to work in a
multimodal environment
with my students, so
that they can experience
a creative and
productive edge to their
learning in an online
world - their world and
their future. I have
been blogging at
Heyjude since
2006, and continue to be
excited by emerging
technologies, innovation
with Web 2.0, and what
this all means for
schools and school
libraries. I also have
the pleasure of
regularly being able to
work as a learning
technology consultant on
diverse projects.
Judy's Top 10 Tools as at
30 March 2008
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Firefox - my
favourite browser for a long time now, and so trustworthy
across platforms.
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Wordpress -
though I have used many others, this remains my favourite
blogging platform.
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Del.ici.ous -
how did we survive without social bookmarking? I use this
every day, and love the ease with which I can share
information with people in my network.
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Flickr - another
tool I can't live without. The ability to store, share and
edit my images on Flickr makes it a core tool and essential
for all my work.
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Wikispaces -
The collaborative function of wikispaces remains vital.
Though it is not the 'prettiest' wiki tool, it's so enmeshed
in K-12 education that I can't function without it, whether
for the Horizon Project, or for small class projects -
wikispaces is there in so many places.
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Twitter - has
become my fastest and most essential micro-blogging
communication tool.
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Second Life -
networking in the metaverse has never been so good. This is
an essential tool for learning for me and is becoming an
important tool for learning for my students too.
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Bloglines - my
trusty Feed Reader - where would I be without it? The
original and still with me after all this time, making it a
favourite still.
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SnagIt - with all
the Web 2.0 tools around, I still enjoy using SnagIT to do a
whole host of jobs for me. I load Snagit onto every single
machine I own.
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MS Word - Under
everything I do are the many word documents that I write.
Never think of using anything else - so it makes it a
favourite, even if by default.What are your
Top 10 Tools for learning?
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