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Winners & Losers 2012

This is an analysis of the movements of the tools on the 6th Annual Top 100 Tools for Learning List (2012) since the 2011 list.

NEW on the list BACK on the list
In at 36 Pinterest
In at 57 Google Translate
In at 61 Flipboard
In at 62 Bing
In at 66 Instapaper
In at 73 Zite
In at 89 Learnist
In at 90 MentorMob
In at 92 Doodle
In at 97 Quora
In at 98 Windows Skydrive
In at 99 Popplet
In at 52 Google Scholar
In at 53 Adobe Photoshop
In at 54 WebEx
In at 65 Firefox and addons 
In at 68 MovieMaker
In at 69 Mindjet (prev Mindmanager)
In at 93 Keynote
in at 96 Tumblr
Tools moving up the list from 2011 Tools moving down the list since 2011
Up 32 places to 41 - Hootsuite
Up 29 places to 71 - OneNote
Up 27 places to 32 - Adobe Connect
Up 24 places to 58 - Quizlet
Up 23 places to 19 - Word
Up 23 places to 51 - SurveyMonkey
Up 20 places to 44 - Livebinders
Up 20 places to 45 - SharePoint
Up 20 places to 49 - Outlook
Up 19 places to 47 - iTunes and iTunesU
Up 18 places to 56 - Khan Academy
Up 14 places to 76 - Pocket (prev Read it Later)
Up 12 places to 70 - Kindle
Up 11 places to 4 - Google Search
Up 11 places to 8 - PowerPoint
Up 11 places to 20 - Yammer
Up 10 places to 33 - Google Sites
Up 10 places to 34 - iPad and apps
Up 10 places to 35 - Google Chrome
Up 10 places to 50 - Blackboard Collaborate
Up 9 places to 17 - Google+ / Hangouts
Up 9 places to 24 - Scoopit
Up 9 places to 37 - Articulate
Up 8 places to 82 - Paper.li
Up 7 places to 75 - Poll Everywhere
Up 6 places to 46 - Mindmeister
Up 5 places to 9 - Facebook
Up 5 places to 12 - Evernote
Up 5 places to 25 - TED Talks/Ed
Up 5 places to 42 - Snagit
Up 5 places to 43 - Adobe Captivate
Up 5 places to 85 - Buddypress
Up 2 places to 67 - Udutu
Up 1 place to 10 - Wikipedia
Down 2 to 23 - LinkedIn
Down 3 to 7 - Skype
Down 3 to 11 - Moodle
Down 3 to 15 - Blogger/Blogspot
Down 3 to 40 - Tweetdeck
Down 3 to 59 - Scribd
Down 3 to 77 - Edublogs
Down 4 to 13 - Slideshare
Down 4 to 94 - Android phones and tablets
Down 5 to 18 - Diigo
Down 6 to 31 - Voicethread
Down 6 to 63 - Ning
Down 6 to 95 - Blackboard
Down 7 to 14 - Prezi
Down 7 to 27 - Gmail
Down 7 to 30 - Wikispaces
Down 8 to 26 – Jing
Down 11 to 21 - EduGlogster
Down 12 to 39 - Animoto
Down 13 to 64 - Screenr
Down 15 to 83 - Lino
Down 18 to 72 - Wallwisher
Down 19 to 74 - iPhone and apps
Down 20 to 55 - Google Apps
Down 24 to 48 - Delicious
Down 24 to 60 - Flickr
Down 24 to 91 - Mahara
Down 26 to 87 - OpenOffice
Down 26 to 100 - iMovie
Down 28 to 86 - eFront
Down 29 to 78 - Vimeo
Down 39 to 80 - Symbaloo (and Edu)
DOwn 40 to 79 - Wordle
Down 44 to 84 - Voki
Down 54 to 88 - PB Works
Tools maintaining the same position on the list since 2011 Tools moving off the list since 2011
No 1 – Twitter
No 2 – YouTube
No 3 – Google Docs/Drive
No 5 – WordPress
No 6 – Dropbox
No 16 – Google Reader
No 22 – Edmodo
No 28 – Camtasia
No 29 – Audacity
No 38 – Google Maps
No 81 - Excel
From 32 - Google Earth
From 50 - Geogebra
From 53 - Picasa
From 62 - Storybird
From 63 – Knol (now discontinued)
From 69 - Posterous
From 69 - Storify
From 74 - BigBlueButton
From 74 - Etherpad + clones
From 74 - iGoogle
From 82 - Google Calendar
From 82 - Screencast-0-matic
From 82 - TeacherTube
From 82 - Zotero
From 90 - bubblus
From 90 - Composica
From 90 - Adobe Flash
From 90 - Fuze meeting
From 90 - Netvibes
From 90 - Weebly

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