Nick is a
physics and mathematics teacher in Fife, 25 years in
industry, producer of
Mr Hood's
World-Wide-Whatsit, an education blog
and online classroom.
Nick writes "You'll notice that
all of these are free to use. Open source is a great model
for society."
Netvibes is
brilliant but I'm really liking Google reader too,
swithering between the two
Hexplorer is still my favourite hacker's tool
for when you just have to get into the 1's and 0's
and finally, where would I be without
Google Calendar
and it's mobile alerts?
Honourable mention to the Mozilla
suite of Firefox (and
it's plugin
community) and
Thunderbird. Worth mentioning that I want to ditch Windows
in favour of Ubuntu but
still can't quite cut the cord and have to keep my laptop
dual-booting.
It's changing much faster this year, it seems, so my list is
likely to be more dynamic than 2007. I'm looking closely at
Second Life (not
ready yet),
LiveMocha for languages,
Yacapaca,
Seesmic and
of course, the use of Bebo and
Facebook to reach
those kids you just can't in the school environment.
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the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2008
