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The bare essentials
These are the basic tools you need to have |
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FIREFOX |
More than just a browser with 100s of extensions
available to provide an enormous range of extra functionality not
found with other browsers. |
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GMAIL/GOOGLE MAIL |
No more worrying about an email client on your desktop and dealing
with spam and viruses - and tons of free storage
space. |
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SKYPE |
An easy way of not only text messaging your contacts but also free voice calls -
with low charges out to landlines. |
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Keep yourself up-to-date
These tools will help you keep up to date with what people are
doing and what's happening in the e-learning world |
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DELICIOUS
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Store your bookmarks online, tag them and share
them with others, students, colleagues and so on |
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GOOGLE READER |
Subscribe to website and blog feeds and the news
is delivered automatically to you. Effortless! |
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TWITTER |
If
you want to
stay in touch with
people no matter where you are or what you’re doing. |
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C |
Manage your own productivity
Here are a variety of tools to help you with your day-to-day
working and learning life |
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GOOGLE CALENDAR |
Don't keep your calendar to yourself, share it and make
scheduling events an easier process. |
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GOOGLE DOCS |
An online suite of office tools for personal or
to collaborate with other. It can read Microsoft Office
documents too.
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FREEMIND |
For
organising your thoughts or just brainstorming.
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iGOOGLE |
Aggregate all your resources, mail,
RSS feeds, etc, in one place.
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D |
Set up a blog, website and/or wiki
You won't necessarily need all three; but here are the ways to
get a web presence |
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WORDPRESS |
Blogging tool for both personal or professional use with many plugins available
for it.
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NVU |
A versatile web authoring to
build web pages and web sites..
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PBWIKI |
A wiki tool to create editable websites for
collaborative writing and working.
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E |
Share
content with others
Make use of existing engaging content by using these
three tools. You can use them to host and share your own
content too. |
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SLIDESHARE |
Upload presentations, tag them and
share them with others. Synchronise them with
an audio file to create a narrated presentation.
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FLICKR |
Host your
personal or professional picture
collection, and share them with friends, colleagues
and others. |
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YOUTUBE |
A large collection of shareable
videos - host your own there tool
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F |
Build content and share it with others
These tools will help you create
additional content and share it with others. |
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VOICETHREAD |
Create
a slideshow around images and invite comments (audio or text) from
others. |
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AUDACITY |
Record and edit audio and, with the extra
encoder, convert your audio files into MP3 podcasts |
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JING |
An “always-ready”
program that instantly captures and shares images and video. |
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POLLDADDY |
Want to get some quick feedback? Set up a
poll, and track responses. |
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G |
Bring people together
For live broadcasts or meetings or for socialising, these 3
tools are key |
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YUGMA |
For small
meetings of up to 10 people, to
whiteboard, annotate and share files. You can even use Skype. |
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USTREAM |
Live
interactive video broadcasting to a global audience. All
it takes is a camera and an internet
connection. |
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NING |
Create and customise a private network/community for a group
of like-minded people, large or small. |
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Develop
and manage courses
If you want to create and manage formal learning content
(courses, programmes etc), then these tools are important. |
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EXE |
Create SCORM-compliant learning content that doesn't require you
to be proficient in HTML or XML markup.
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MOODLE |
Host a complete course or program or
simply provide the user authentication mechanism to other
training materials. |
