Andreas is an engineer for biomedicine and holds a PhD.
He teaches biomedicine at the university as well as ELT at
the local college of Further Education. A minor part of his
teaching is done on-line (asynchronous and synchronous). He
runs teacher trainings such as ICT for LL, ICT for LT. Last
but not least he is the NL-editor of the
ELTA-Rhine.Blog
Andreas's Top 10 Tools as at
6 January 2008
Moodle is a course management system - a free, Open
Source software package designed using sound pedagogical
principles, to help educators create and deliver
effective on-line learning communities
OxygenOffice Professional (OOOP, O2OP) is an
enhanced version of the free OpenOffice.org what is a
multi-platform office productivity suite.
OxygenOffice Professional contains more extras like
templates, cliparts, samples, fonts and VBA support.
eXe -
OpenSource: Create learning resources export it as a
webpage, SCORM or IMS standard packages to import in
almost every VLE. The eXe project was conceived to
address the use of technology in the design and
authoring of learning resources for the web. Initial
research showed that while there are many web authoring
tools available their usability and sophistication
varied considerably.
Google
Reader - A great RSS reader ... I prefer
web-based readers to a reader on my local machine. Easy
access all over the web
Audacity
- open source Audio editing in an easy way. Gorgeous
tool for all "sound experiments"
VoiceThread - A VoiceThread is an online media
album that allows people to make comments, either audio
or text, and share them with anyone they wish. A
VoiceThread allows an entire group’s story to be told
and collected in one place.
portableapps - I carry my favorite computer programs
along with all of my bookmarks, settings, email and more
with me on a thumb drive. Use them on any Windows
computer. All without leaving any personal data behind.
Just a free alternative to the commercial u3 solution.
diigo -
Free. With the use of diigo and the automatic export to
del.icio.us you gain a great Social Bookmarking + Social
Annotation tool The best way to collect, share and
interact on online information from anywhere.
Firefox
- My favourite web browser including uncountable
extensions …
Tiddlywiki
- OpenSource TiddlyWiki is a complete wiki in a
single HTML file. It contains the entire text of the
wiki, and all the JavaScript, CSS and HTML goodness to
be able to display it, and let you edit it or search it.
Without needing a server.
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Top 100 Tools for Learning 2008
Andreas's Top 10 Tools as at
8 July 2007
reBlog - A
reBlog
facilitates the
process of filtering
and republishing
relevant content
from many RSS feeds.
reBloggers subscribe
to their favorite
feeds, preview the
content, and select
their favorite
posts. These posts
are automatically
published through
their favorite
blogging software.
reBlogs are
useful to
individuals who want
to maintain a weblog
but prefer curating
content to writing
original posts.
dokeos - IMHO dokeos is comparable to
Moodle but due to its learning path it is closer to
teaching than to collaborate. It reads all SCORM and
IMS standard stuff and in the new version it
includes an editor to create "learning paths /
units" in these standards. The even offer a platform
with 50 MB free
hosting to try a few things.
eXe - OpenSource Create learning resources
export it as a webpage, SCORM or IMS standard
packages to import in almost every VLE. The
eXe project was conceived to address the use of
technology in the design and authoring of learning
resources for the web. Initial research showed that
while there are many web authoring tools available
their usability and sophistication varied
considerably.
Google Reader
- A great RSS
reader ... I prefer
web-based readers to a
reader on my local
machine. Easy access all
over the web
Audacity
- open source Audio editing in an easy way.
VoiceThread - A VoiceThread is an online
media album that allows people to make comments,
either audio or text, and share them with anyone
they wish. A VoiceThread allows an entire group’s
story to be told and collected in one place.
Zentation - Zentation is the place where
video and PowerPoint meet. A cool tool for
presentations on the web.
diigo - Free. With the use of diigo
and the automatic export to del.icio.us you gain a
great Social Bookmarking + Social Annotation tool
The best way to collect, share and interact on
online information from anywhere
Zookoda - Free Zookoda is an email
marketing application designed specifically for
bloggers. Zookoda enables you to send a daily,
weekly or monthly summary of your latest blog posts
directly into your visitors inbox.
Tiddlywiki
- OpenSource TiddlyWiki is a
complete wiki in a single HTML file. It contains the
entire text of the wiki, and all the JavaScript, CSS
and HTML goodness to be able to display it, and let
you edit it or search it. Without needing a server.
