TOP 10 TOOLS 2007, 2008 & 2009
Gabriela Grosseck

Gabriela is a senior lecturer in the Department of Modern Languages and Social Informatics at the West University of Timisoara in  Romania.  She blogs at Despre chestii din viata (cu si fara technologie ("About things of life – with and without technology")

Gabriela's Top 10 Tools as at 20 May 2009

1. delicious

2. Twitter / tweetdeck

3. Cirip

4. Slideshare

5. photopeach

6. Ning

7. Wikispaces

8. gmail

9. flickr

10. screencastle

Gabriela's Top 10 Tools as 26 October 2008

1. Google Reader -  my daily "Hide Park Corner"
2. del.icio.us -  my Internet Library
3. Twitter - my self-discipline for thoughts with others
4. Ning  -  for great knowledge and good professional communities
5. Blogger -  my inside story online
6. flickr - my inspired world
7. Slideshare - my visual path
8. Wikispaces - THE e-portfolio both for students and myself
9. VoiceThread - the collaboration , cooperation space
10. Cirip - Romanian microblogging platform - my conversational way to keep in touch with the world

Gabriela's Top 10 Tools as 11 February 2008

1. Firefox

2. del.icio.us

3. Google Reader

4. Wikispaces

5. Ning (new entry) - because it offers me great knowledge and good professional communities

6. Blogger

7. flickr

8. Slideshare

9. Twitter (new entry) - because it's the best way to be informed and share/get thoughts and ideas in 140 characters!

10. Scribd

Gabriela's Top 10 Tools as 30 July 2007

1. Firefox with extensions: it’s fast, safe and I can personalize it completely just the way I wish

2. del.icio.us: it offered me the possibility to create my own link-library, because I can cooperate and change resources with other users

3. Google Reader:  it’s simple, fast and, due to a FireFox extension, I can post directly onto delicious

4. Wikispaces: I can create learning-communities with my students, because it is really great as a course support

5. Blogger: First of all because it’s a blog. Second, because it offers me the possibility to personalize web pages through templates. More than this, I can insert very easily pictures and videoclips and, at last but not at least, it’s in Romanian language

6. flickr: it’s an extraordinary image collection and I can search for Creative Commons photos which I can use for Powerpoint presentations

7. Slideshare:  My inspiration source: The place where from you can download or watch different kinds of presentations from different people from all over the world. Now with a new feature: voice.

8. SnagIt:  it lets me copy and distribute any image, text or video (including web-pages with links). Because it permits notes on the images (great for course

9. Scribd:  Puts my documents online (disregarding it’s type and I can insert it into the blog, for example)

10. TeacherTube: The clips are organized on tags, on channels (University, High School, Middle School), workgroups. They can be downloaded and you can associate an activity for each