You are Never Alone

Many thanks to Stephen Downes for the heads-up on this one. The original post is on Jane’s E-learning Pick of the Day blog.
Jane says in her post:

I think this year’s list, once again, is a great demonstration of how learning professionals are making use of a wide range of both traditional and innovative tools and services both for personal learning and within formal structured learning contexts. The fact that Twitter is now the Number 1 tool shows that learning professionals clearly appreciate the power of social media technologies for learning and are demonstrating its use in ways that would have been unimaginable a few years ago. I also believe that although some well-known tools have moved down or even off the list this year, this doesn’t necessarily mean they are no longer of value for learning; it is much more likely that they are now just “taken for granted”. This year’s list once again shows that learning moves on!

Stephen says in his post that what he finds interesting is the page of winners and losers.

For me by far the most interesting is the inclusion, high on the list, of sites and tools that we have identified as high on the “blocked list” for many Australian education institutions. It does illustrate the fact that we need to come up with other options than just blocking doesn’t it?

Here are the top 10 in the list (visit the site for a list where you can click on the tool). Note the top 10 tools are all free.
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F=Free, C=Commercial, W=Windows, M=Mac, S=Server, O=Online

Interesting also to see Moodle coming in at 14th, Wikipedia at 17th, Prezi (a relatively new kid on the block) already at 28th.