Friday, May 30, 2008

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

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