Jane's Pick of the Day: Learning Tools Directory 2011

Jane's Pick of the Day: Learning Tools Directory 2011

DIRECTORY OF LEARNING TOOLS 2011
Over 2,000 tools for learning and working in education and the workplace
PUBLIC LEARNING SITES A wide range of informational and educational sites for general reference, how-to guides, wikis, how-to videos, podcasts, courses, lessons, tutorials (including open courseware), e-books as well as other reference resources and places to ask questions both online and on your mobile. Find out About Anything & Everything
Learn a language online
Learn about business INSTRUCTIONAL TOOLS Tools for creating, delivering, managing and/or tracking learning and/or providing a formal social learning environment. Authoring Tools
Testing & Quizzing Tools
Course Mgt & LMS
Miscellaneous SOCIAL & COLLABORATION SPACES

These social media platforms include public social networks, tools to create private collaborative spaces for groups or communities, as well as social business software Public social networks and collaboration platforms
Small group and community tools
Large community and enterprise platforms TWITTER APPS

These tools include a range of useful Twitter applications
(Note micro-sharing/activity stream tools now appear in Social & Collaboration spaces) Twitter apps WEB MEETING, CONFERENCING & VIRTUAL WORLD TOOLS

Tools for delivering live meetings, screen sharing and virtual worlds
Web meetings
Screen sharing
Webcasting
Video conferencing
Virtual worlds DOCUMENT & PRESENTATION TOOLS

Personal and collaborative tools to create, host and share documents, PDFs, e-Books, presentations and spreadsheets. Document creation
Document hosting
Presentation creation
Presentation hosting
PDF tools
3D (page turning) tools
Spreadsheet tools BLOGGING, WEB & WIKI TOOLS

Tools to create blogs, web pages/sites and wikis as well as provide interactivity on those sites Blogging tools
Wiki tools
Web page/site tools
Form, polling and survey tools
RSS feed tools
Web plugins and accessories IMAGE, AUDIO AND VIDEO TOOLS

Tools to create, edit and/or host images, avatars, audio files, podcasts, screencasts and videos Image editing
Screen capture
Image galleries & hosting
Audio/podcast editing
Audio streaming
Audio hosting
Video editing
Screencasting
Video streaming
Video hosting
General file/media sharing COMMUNICATION TOOLS Tools for a range of synchronous and asynchronous communication activities Email tools
Newsletter tools
SMS/text tools
IM tools
Chat rooms
Voice groups
Discussion forums OTHER COLLABORATION & SHARING TOOLS These are further tools for collaboration and sharing with others. Social bookmarking
Curation tools
Collaborative research
Collaborative annotation
Shareable notes/notebooks
Shareable/group organizers
Collaborative corkboards
Collaborative whiteboards
Collaborative mindmapping
Calendar sharing/Event scheduling
Shareable maps
Sharing files across computers
Misc collaboration tools PERSONAL PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS These tools are for an individual's personal working, learning and/or productivity purposes. Search and discovery tools
Research/Study tools
Save to read for later
Alerts
Personal organizers
Personal notebooks
Personal mindmapping
Time management
Personal calendars
Timers
Calculators
Password managers
Accessibility tools
Spellcheckers
Computer desktop tools
Misc tools BROWSERS, PLAYERS AND READERS These tools are useful for browsing the web and accessing, viewing and reading web content Browsers
Add-ons, extensions, bookmarklets & toolbars
RSS & News readers
Other desktop apps & players
Downloaders
Social Media Managers
Start pages SPECIAL PAGE
SOCIAL LEARNING TOOLS IN THE CLASSROOM
Social tools particularly targeted at (or very useful) for the primary, junior, middle and secondary school classrooms.