The Big Question

Creating and enhancing your personal learning network to empower your profession learning.

The Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies has created a list of the Top Tools for Learning, compiled by learning professionals, for the last 3 years.
Having regularly been caught up in the conversation with peers and eventually getting to the writing stage I thought it fair that I share them here. They are almost in order and many are about my professional learning but all are powerful learning tools.

Diigo – Social bookmarking and collaboration at its best. Its a jump to move from Delicious however well worth the effort for the collaboration and annotation capabilities.

Google reader - My staple for professional learning. Via RSS I am connected to the best educators from around the world.

You Tube – The worlds second biggest search engine, what cant you learn here?

Slideshare – A powerful way to extend students audience and a great way to learn from others.

iPhone/iPod/ Touch and apps – An amazing learning tool for all ages. The quality of the apps make it so powerful and I am continually amazed at how essential my iphone is.

Google search – Old school but still quick and effective

Wordpress – This could just as easily be edublogs, powerful blogging for students and teachers

Evernote – I need this. Organisation and retrieval of ideas and learnings made easy

Google Docs – Collaborative editing and sharing. Keeping things open and accessible

OpenSim – Virtual worlds are so powerful. Just working with and watching the students involved in creating Virtual Corpus Christi convinces of the power of developing creativity and opensim is a great place to do it.

A nice little presentation encouraging teachers to use Web 2.0 tools to create personal learning networks.