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TOP 10 TOOLS 2007,
2008 & 2009
Wilfred Rubens
Wilfred has worked for several years as a consultant
in the field of adult and vocational education.
Since December 1995 Wilfred has been concerned with
Internet technology in learning situations
(e-learning). Now he is policy advisor of the board
of Gilde Opleidingen, an institute for vocational
training and education. His focus is on educational
development and ICT in education.
Wilfred has his own
weblog about technology enhanced learning (in
Dutch). Furthermore he is co-editor of the Dutch
e-learning portal,
e-learning.nl.
Wilfred has written several articles about
e-learning (in Dutch). He provides key notes,
masterclasses and workshops about e-learning.
Wilfred's Top 10 Tools as at 28
September 2009
For the last 3 months Wilfred has
been using a Mac, so here is his
updated list.
Wilfred's Top 10 Tools at 9 March 2009
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del.icio.us
- Great tool to
save and share interesting websites and blog posts. I use it
to collect sources for presentations, papers, articles and
-of course- blog posts
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TypePad
- I use this blog tool for some years now.
Userfriendly and reliable. Helps me reflecting on
developments.
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Firefox
- My gateway to the world wide web. Helps me
responding to different blog posts en comments
- Bloglines - Since I use an Apple iPhone, and I have the
opportunity to be online 24/7, I use Bloglines to read about
330 RSS feeds.
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Twitter - points
out to me new resources used by other experts. I use it to
share thoughts and information with other learning
professionals. Great for asking questions (an d giving
answers).
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Google Search
- I use it to search my weblog (personal learning archive)
and, of course- the Internet.
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Outlook
-; For mail, managing tasks and contacts
- Apple iPhone - to check e-mail, to search for
information, to view YouTube films, to twitter. Access to
the internet 24/7
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PowerPoint
- At my work I don't have OpenOffice. I guess
this is the main reason why I do hardly use OpenOffice for
presentations etc. Powerpoint is easy to use. I also use it
for re-structuring thoughts. So when I want to write a
paper.
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LinkedIn
- resource to look for experts
Wilfred's Top 10 Tools as at 12
August 2008
The same as January's list except:
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Twitter -
points out to me new resources used by other experts
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LinkedIn -
resource to look for experts
Wilfred's Top 10 Tools as at 3
January 2008
-
del.icio.us
-
Great tool to
save and share interesting websites and blog posts. I
use it to
collect sources
for
presentations,
papers, articles
and -of course-
blog posts.
-
TypePad
-
I use this blog tool for some
years now.
Userfriendly and reliable.
Helps me reflecting on developments.
-
Firefox
-
My gateway to the world wide web. Helps me
responding to different blog posts
en comments
-
FeedReader -
I used to use
Bloglines as a feed reader. But I prefer Feedreader for some
time now. Easy to
use. I can read blog
posts offline (e.g.
in trains).
One disadvantage:
you cannot share
your feeds with
others.
-
Google Search
-
I use it to search my weblog (personal learning
archive) and –of course- the Internet.
-
Outlook
-
For mail, managing tasks and contacts
-
PowerPoint
-
At my work I don't have OpenOffice. I guess this is the main reason why
I do hardly use OpenOffice for presentations
etc. Powerpoint is easy to use. I also use it
for re-structuring thoughts. So when I want to
write a paper.
-
Copernic Desktop Search
- When
I want to look up previous work
-
Faststone Capture -
To make screendumps
for presentations.
-
Notepad
-
I use it a lot to write blog
posts offline (including old-fashioned
html-coding).
Wilfred's
Top 10 Tools as at 29 July 2007
-
del.icio.us
-
Great tool to
save and share interesting websites and blog posts. I
use it to
collect sources
for
presentations,
papers, articles
and -of course-
blog posts.
-
TypePad
-
I use this blog tool for some
years now.
Userfriendly and reliable
-
Firefox
-
My gateway to the world wide web. Helps me
responding to different blog posts
en comments
-
FeedReader -
I used to use
Bloglines as a feed reader. But I prefer Feedreader for some
time now. Easy to
use. I can read blog
posts offline (e.g.
in trains).
One disadvantage:
you cannot share
your feeds with
others.
-
Notepad
-
I use it a lot to write blog
posts offline (including old-fashioned
html-coding).
-
Outlook
-
For mail, managing tasks and contacts
-
PowerPoint
-
At my work I don't have OpenOffice. I guess this is the main reason why
I do hardly use OpenOffice for presentations
etc. Powerpoint is easy to use. I also use it
for re-structuring thoughts. So when I want to
write a paper.
-
Copernic Desktop Search
- When
I want to look up previous work
-
Faststone Capture -
To make screendumps
for presentations.
-
OpenOffice
-
Especially for producing PDF-files from
Office-documents.
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