Jack Kenny is a journalist specialising in ICT in learning. His work appears in the Guardian and the TES.  Jack is also Edexcel's Chair of Examiners for GCSE English.

Jack's Top 10 Tools as at 9 November 2009

1. Buzzword - Adobe's Buzzword is a very elegant word processor. The virtue of the online word processor is that you always have the latest version and it is available anywhere that you have an online connection.

2. Google Docs - The beauty of this is that it is easy to share and produce collaborative documents. This could be used in almost any curriculum area.

3. Audacity - The quality of this audio software is first rate. You can do most tasks with this. It is very good for recording podcasts.

4. Freemind - People can argue about the best mind mapper. The best way is to try a few mind mappers to find which work for your and your students. Why not ask the students to vote?

5. Jing - Jing takes the pain out of explaining processes on a computer. The free program enables any one to make a short recording of activity on the desk top. It also enables students to create explanations too. Simple and ingenious.

6. Evernote - As you browse if there is something, text audio video then you can can just capture it and save it A wonderful research tool both for teacher and for students.

7. Sumo Paint - If there is a better paint program on the Internet I have yet to find it. Sumo Paint, designed more for image creation rather than image editing, is a stimulus to creativity.

8. Google Earth - Just a few years ago this would have been unimaginable. Now many Geography teachers wonder how they managed without it

9. Voicethread - To put it succinctly these are conversations around an image or a document

10. Skype - What better way to reach out of the classroom! What better way to bring other people in to the classroom.