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TOP TOOLS 2007
Terry Elliott
Terry Elliott has taught with web-based tools since
1999. He has taught middle school, high school, and
university level courses in media, drama, language arts,
composition, and literature. Currently, he is looking to
extend his reach to social networking presences, cellphones,
and podcasts in the online arena.
Terry blogs at Tex2All
and is the editor of two communities of practice at his
university, the English Majors' Weblog (a weblog for all
English majors at Western Kentucky University) and
TechKnowledg-E (a weblog for technology leaders in the
English Department at WKU).
Terry's Top 10 Tools as
at 12 July 2007
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Firefox
with
extensions. I
especially find
Zotero
is an unparalleled
research and
bibliography
tool
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WordPress: I use the powerful Semiologic theme
and various widgets (LineBuzz, Google Shared,
Delicious links,
MyBlogLog and
Twitter)
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VisualHub: This is the best video conversion
software for Mac which is saying something. I use
it for creating vodcasts for my online classes.
They even have iPhone conversion now.
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Moodle
for course development
and as an
open source alternative
to Bb/WebCT
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Google Reader/Bloglines
for my personal learning environment
(river of info, doncha know) and collaborative
research tool in my courses.
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diigo:
social bookmarking and annotation that keeps getting better
and more collaborative.
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iShowU: Easy to use and powerful Mac tool for
creating screencasts.
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Jott
or
Gcast: On-the-fly podcasting and email notes.
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Jotspot:
Wikis (looks
like Google will finally be opening the beta on this
sometime this summer)
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Facebook:
social networking with my students,
the secret killer app for education
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