Swansea's Top 10 Tools....

Following on from a previous post a group of people were asked to nominate their Top 10 learning tools to see if we could find Swansea's Top 10 Tools. The results are in as you can see below. Most people found it quite difficult to rank the tools so you will also find a list of all the tools mentioned.

To avoid any confusion, it was taken as a given that the Virtual Learning Environment is a useful tool and is not included in the list.

Rank	Tool	Votes	Type of Tool
1	Google Search	49	Search engine
2	Delicious	49	Social bookmarking
3	Powerpoint	38	Presentations
4	Blogger	30	Blogging
5	Clicker Software	26	Audience response system
6	Firefox	25	Web browser
7	Blogs	23	Blogging
8	Course Genie	21	E-learning activity creator
9	iGoogle	19	Personalised homepage
10	Netvibes	18	Personalised homepage

Honourable mention should also be given to Audacity, which came just outside the Top 10 with 17 votes.

Three of the tools are paid for and provided by the University - Powerpoint, Course Genie and Clickers software. The rest are 'free' tools.

If we add some of the 684 votes together, various Google tools got 116 votes, Blogging tools 66 votes and Wiki tools 52 votes.

Thanks to all those who took the time to vote

Full List of Tools

Asus EEE PC

Audacity

Beer

Blogger

Blogs

Cakes

Camtasia

Chat

Clicker Software

Conversation

Course Genie

Delicious

Discussion Forum

Dokuwiki

Dreamweaver

Elgg

Endnote

Facebook

Feedburner

Field Courses

Firefox

Flickr

Freemind

Google Alerts

Google Calendar

Google Custom Search

Google Docs

Google Reader

Google Scholar

Google Search

Google Video

Grazr

HEA E-Learning Materials

iGoogle

Image manipulation Software

iMovie

Interactibe Whiteboard Software

JSTOR

Lectures

Levleator

Library

Lynda.com

Movie maker

Netvibes

Nexus UK

PB Wiki

Picens

Powerpoint

Practicals

Projects

Quandry

Simulations

Snagit

Survey Monkey

Tiddlywiki

Video Creation Software

Video Jug

VOIP/Skype

Web

Wikipedia

Wikis

Wikispaces

Windows Live

Wireless Keyboard & Mouse

Word

Wordpress

WorldCat

You Tube