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Learning Tools Directory 2010
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for formal, personal, group and organisational learning

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Top Tools for Learning
Here are the Top 100 Tools lists for the last 3 years compiled from the Top 10 Tools lists of learning professionals worldwide

2009

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Top 10 Tools Lists of Learning Professionals worldwide

Top 10 Tools Lists 2009

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TOP 100 TOOLS
Netvibes

Netvibes is a free start page that provides you with access to all your digital resources in one page. Blogs, news, online videos, podcast, pictures, e-mail.  Netvibes Universes are customised versions of Netvibes that can be published for public access. 
 

Website www.netvibes.com
Cost Free
Availability Online
2007 ranking -
2008 ranking 37
2009 ranking 55=

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Directory of Learning Tools Start pages

Comments from those who selected Netvibes as one of their Top 10 Tools in 2009

  • This has taken the place of iGoogle for me since it has a public page that I can share with others. Barry Dahl
  • this manages my life! It aggregates all of my RSS feeds & also has a number of tools from listing tasks to searching for photos & videos. (Carol Skyring)

Comments from those who selected Netvibes as one of their Top 10 Tools in 2008

  • "my personal pin board and something I would now not cope without – like your filofax in the 90’s, but better. I can watch students’ updates to our wiki, link to my favourite blogs, collect all my favourite websites and bookmarks with a Delicious widget, check my i-calendar, see updates on Twitter and watch Facebook updates when I have  a break - all on one very pretty page on my desk top…."  Jane Challinor
  • "The Ginger edition makes it even better and more social Edwin Mijnsbergen
  • "very powerful rss aggregator. Perfect for following blog activity" Laurent Janolin
  • "This is my online portal. I use it to read feeds, to access my most commonly used sites (like an HTML reference list) and to manage my To Do lists and my calendar."  Michele Martin

Comments from those who selected Netvibes as one of their Top 10 Tools in 2007

  • "The tool actually might be RSS (I call it really slick stuff) Netvibes is my favorite RSS reader and my all around "start my day" tool (I am pulling in other tools to this central location as well like flickr and GMail)"  Audrey J Williams
  • " I use it as my startpage. I  oincluded only the RSS feeds and links (bookmarks) to the web pages I need to checks everal times a day"  Eduardo Peirano
  • "This is my online portal. I use it to read feeds, to access my most commonly used sites (like an HTML reference list) and to manage my To Do lists and my calendar."  Michele Martin
  • "Netvibes makes it possible to digest the daily dose of newsfeeds and other resources and does that in a beautiful way. It allows me to use external widgets, keeps it all organised in tabs en even allows me to share all my feeds with others. The Netvibes Universes just rock. Could not imagine an online life without it."  Edwin Mijnsbergen
  • "Mi lector de rss.(My RSS reader)"   Eraser Cabeza Borredora
  • "I love having an online desktop accessible from anywhere any machine, as I spend my life trying to cope with working with differen computers. It helps me monitor forums and blogs through RSS feeds, and my Flickr feed to new posts tagged with knitting brings me joy daily!" Frances Bell
  • "an easy to use RSS reader and startpage (with mail, searchers, bookmarking, calendar, twitter, ...)."  Jose Luis Cabello
  • "I use this as my starting page, customised for my needs, and promote this to students as well"  Nicole Cargill-Kipar
  • "great content aggregator"  Nick Hood
  • "just realised how much I need this when working away from my own laptop.  I was lost without my feed reader so needed an online one"  Lisa Valentine
  • "is brilliant but I'm really liking Google reader too, swithering between the two"  Nick Hood
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