TOP TOOLS
TOP 10 TOOLS 2007 & 2008
Mike Taylor

Mike's Top 10 Tools as at 21 August 2007

1. Firefox - I practically live in Firefox. With all the great plug-ins I can interact with several of the other items on my Top 10 list such as Delicious, WordPress, Picnik and Google

2. Google Reader, Google Search, iGoogle and Google Notebook - An integrated set of online tools for research, documents, notes, and a start page.

3. del.icio.us - All my bookmarks with notes from one location accessible from anywhere

4. picnik - Great for image/photo editing and capturing browser screens; integrates directly with Firefox, flickr, Picasa Web Albums

5. Wordpress - Super easy publishing

6. Wikispaces - Notes, research and collaboration that is easily done "on the fly"

7. Articulate: Presenter & QuizMaker (also Engage) - Excellent elearning tools that allow SMEs to work in PowerPoint and developers to quickly produce high quality online learning content

8. Audacity - Easy to use, free audio editor

9. Captivate - Flash presentations, screencasts, and learning content made easy.

10. PowerPoint - Basic tool for generating online content. Most of my PowerPoints end up being converted to Flash, etc via Articulate