I am based in the University of Patras, Greece where I develop e-learning courses for the university community in the field of facilities management. Our university is currently running eclass LMS based on claroline.  Furthermore, I am vice director of studies in IEK Vergi, private college (). There we deploy a full asynchronous e-learning support of all courses. Moreover, I subscribe to the open source notion of education. As a result of this, I've setup and run www.iedu.gr, an open e-learning community for e-learning course builders & providers. Also, I am a certified instructor at the National Centre for Public Administration and Local Government, where I teach among others in "train the e-trainer" seminars.  my edublog will appear shortly on blog.edu.gr.

Stylianos's Top 10 Tools as at 11 September 2008

The following tools are the same at February 2008

1. Google Reader
2. Moodle
3. Wikispaces
4. Del.icio.us
5. Elluminate
6. Skype
7. Wordpress

The following are new entries:

8. Jing - Great, free and easy to use tool for the production of short instructional videos
9. Pidgin - Very convenient cross-platform freeware software combinig multiple IM accounts.
10. flickr - source and storage of valuable visual material

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Stylianos's Top 10 Tools as at 1 February 2008

1. Google Reader - Effective, free tool for rss feeds. My personalised news kiosk.

2. Moodle - One of the best overall platforms for asynchronous e-learning. Free, open-source with great add-ons developed in a global community. Backbone of most of my e-learning projects.

3. YouTube Catcher - Invaluable tool for keeping off-line copies of videos. Particulary useful in teaching instances where internet connection is unavailable or problematic.

4. dotsub.com - Very useful tool for a country such as Greece. Adding subtitles to videos makes them understandable to a much broader audience. A must when a video is intended for high school students for example. Also useful for foreign language learning students.

5. Slideshare - The idea of sharing in life is not just superb, it is a pointer to the solution of many problems in all levels. Identifying the existential importance of our relations within societies helps us overcome individualism and develop our humanity.  Slideshare as a tool is a perfect example of technology-driven enabler in global scale. Moreover, slideshare is a source of great material, thanks to their open-minded contributors. I've spent hours discovering fascinating presentations in various subjects.

6. Wikispaces - Available power of wiki-freedom. Use it wisely!

7. Del.icio.us - Information fishing stick (or rather net?) in the internet ocean. Very efficient and simple social bookmarking tool with a must-have firefox plug-in.

8. Elluminate - Stable, efficient, feature rich web-conferencing tool for business. I'd love to have the interface in my local language though.

9. Skype - Serious phone alternative + IM tool + collaboration add-ons = efficiency

10. Wordpress - One of the best free, open-source blog platform choices.