TOP TOOLS TOP 10 TOOLS 2007 &
2008
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")
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Gabriela's Top 10 Tools
as 30 July 2007
Firefox with
extensions:
it’s
fast, safe and I can personalize it completely just the way
I wish
del.icio.us:
it offered me the possibility to
create my own link-library, because I can cooperate and
change resources with other users
Google Reader:
it’s simple, fast and, due to a FireFox extension, I can post
directly onto delicious
Wikispaces:
I can
create learning-communities with my students, because it is
really great as a course support
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
flickr:
it’s an extraordinary image
collection and I can search for Creative Commons photos
which I can use for Powerpoint
presentations
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.
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
Scribd:
Puts my documents online
(disregarding it’s type and I can insert it into the blog, for example)
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
