I work in a secondary school in Melbourne,
Australia, as an e-Learning Developer. I manage our
e-Learning systems (Moodle, etc), and support and
train staff in their use. I’m always looking to
share resources with staff, and am constantly
pushing new ideas and web 2.0 technologies with
them. I developed
www.edutagger.com (K-12 social bookmarking) to
help in this regard.
Mark's Top 10 Tools as at
21 February 2008
Edutagger (K-12 Social Bookmarking)
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Edutagger follows the Digg concept of social bookmarking,
allowing you to share your web links online, all within
an educational context. Given its educational focus,
you are likely to find resources very specific to
education, as opposed to Digg or del.icio.us.
Voicethread -
Voicethread brings discussions on such media as video to
an entirely new level. It allows you and your students
to collaboratively share your thoughts on video whilst
watching simultaneously.
Wikipedia
- Just about any small piece of information I need can be
found on wikipedia.
Firefox
and its many extensions
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Through the use of Firefox’s vast selection of
extensions, I have been able to explore the web in so
many different ways that I didn’t think were possible.
I’ve also been able to develop for the web much easier
Google Reader
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I store all my RSS feeds on Google Reader, it basically
sits there all day updating content live.
Moodle
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Moodle is the most comprehensive open source e-Learning
system out there. It can be complicated to use at
first, but once you understand its intricacies you can
really appreciate its power.
Digg -
Digg provides me with user-driven social news filtered
down to what is most popular. Without needing to
explore the deepest pages on traditional news websites,
Digg provides me with what is most interesting
Dreamweaver
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Dreamweaver provides almost everything I need for web
development.
Google Apps
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I’m using Google Apps more and more with documents I
need to refer to on an ongoing basis. Things like to-do
lists, document collaboration and even mortgage
spreadsheets are all used.
Google Analytics
- For web tracking, Google Analytics provides me with a
huge amount of important information about web visitors
in a visually attractive form.
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