TOP 10 TOOLS 2008 & 2009
Christopher Jack

Chris is Senior Interactive Assessment developer @ the University of Derby. He is involved in helping academics creating and using e-learning materials and ideas. He blogs: at e-department.blogspot.com

Chris's Top 10 Tools as at 10 March 2009

1. Agilefant - This allows you to manage development project’s etc based on agile methodologies
2. Desktask - This is especially good if you have lots of meetings, you can see what you have on that day and the future, and it links into Microsoft Outlook
3. Second Life - You can use this to do collaborative scenarios
4. Enigma - This is a desktop theme which uses gadgets which you can view rss feeds etc
5. Rocket Dock - This gives you Mac like bar which makes it easy and quick to open applications.
6. Google Chrome  - A lot faster and cleaner than Firefox
7. Xerte - Open source e-learning development syste
8. Filezilla - Open Source FTP client
9. Adobe CS4  - Excellent development suite containing flash photoshop et
10. Notepad++ - Excellent text editor ideal for coding webpages

Chris's Top 10 Tools as at 29 October 2008

1. Google Sites - A tool to easily create and administrate your own sites , share info etc
2. Limesurvey - A tool to administrate survey within your organisation/university.. Allows to see an overall picture of survey use,
3. Firefox - Nuff said
4. Subversion -  A tool that is good to use for developing applications and allows developers to easily store and backup code/documents
5. Google Reader - Where I follow my rss feeds
6. Photoshop - A must have in the collection)
7. Blogspot - A place to blog
8. OpenOffice - A free open source document creater
9. Open Mark -  A free open source Assessment Engine
10. SecondLife - A place where we can design live tutorials/simulations