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TOP 10 TOOLS 2007
Patrick Dunn
Patrick is an independent, UK-based e-learning
consultant specialising in helping organisations develop
creative approaches to learning with and without
technology. His site is at
www.networked-learning.com.
He
writes: "I really enjoyed the exercise of choosing 10
favourite tools, because it reminded me I should use them
more, instead of the many distinctly un-favourite tools I'm
kind of forced to use..."
Patrick's Top 10 Tools as at 24 July
2007
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Flock -
the browser. Perhaps less revolutionary than it first
appears, but it always reminds me what the web is for
(to use David Weinberger's words)
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Google Maps,
particularly the satellite pics, because they let me wander
endlessly.
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Bloglines -
because it just brings everything that people are saying
together very neatly.
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MindMapper - how do people function without mindmaps? I can't
understand it. This
isn't the funkiest
mapping tool in the
world, but it's mapped
the contents of my brain
for many years and has
just about managed to
keep up.
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Skype -
no explanation needed.
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Axure - a neat tool for producing wireframes and
basic prototypes. Not rocket science by any means, but a
precious tool for conveying to clients what's going on
with their sites.
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Squarespace - my site and blog
are created in this. Just really useful for people
like me who don't really want to know too much about
what's going on "under the hood."
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Swishmax - another code-hider; kind of Flash for
dummies. I'll use Flash as well, but sometimes Swish is
just quicker and slicker.
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Acid - it was interesting seeing
Clive Shepherd mention Cubase; I find the high-end
DWS packages too over the top, so when I was
thinking about what music software to include I
thought I'd go down market. I know I'm way too old
to be producing dance music but, well, I do, and I
do it using Acid.
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Firefox - because
it's my main window on the world.
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