Viv heads up the Professional Services Department at
Academy Internet in Brighton. He likes making it easier
for busy professionals to get the best from using
e-learning and runs smoothly on high quality tea. For
more of his musings on e-learning see
From the Coleface.
Viv's Top 10 Tools as at
13 February 2008
Originate
(Academy Internet’s development environment)
- creates
beautiful e-learning content based on easy to use word
templates
iGoogle– personalised homepage, meaning that
I save time surfing and keep up to date with the cricket
scores
Wordpress– the software I use to write my blog...the
more I reflect and publish what I discover, the more I
know
Ning- good social networking website,
useful for virtual teams and asynchronous communication
Excel– well I am a chartered
accountant…great for planning, analysis, sorting and
anything you might present as a table
Wikipedia– invaluable
for looking up history and film stars that I’m supposed
to have heard of
Word– the medium that we use to document
what a formal learning intervention is trying to achieve
Outlook- how I hear about much that’s of use
(once I sift it from all the junk)
Tortoise SVN– version control software which is
invaluable when different team members are putting
together an e-learning script
Flash- versatile tool for bringing
e-learning to life
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