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My Top 10 Tools for 2009

My list for Jane Hart’s Mega-list for 2009 – you could submit your top 10…it’s not too late! (Nov. 15 deadline)
These are roughly in order…

Firefox – with adblocker for sure. The thing that runs everything else. So many great add-ons and plug-ins available to make it YOUR browser.
iGoogle – the closest thing I have to [...]

GoogleWave: Day 1 – 2

Oh boy! I’m on The Google Wave!  Captain’s Log, Stardate -313154.79848427186

Day 1 – Yesterday: Got invite (thanks Brent Lee!).  Stoked!  Start playing.  Huh.  Okaaaay, it looks like the video….but…there’s  nothing really going on. Not wave’s fault: I need friends.  I’m like a kid who FINALLY got Rock Band that I wanted SO BADLY for [...]

Top 10 Tools

Jane Hart’s Top 10 Tools of Learning Professionals for 2009 is out – woot!
Here’s my top 10 (more or less on order):

Firefox (with AdBlock Plus + delicious add ons at least).
iGoogle – with tabs + blocks, incl. Gmail, Google Docs,  Google alerts, Google Reader, Twitter feed, CBC & BBC news, weather,
Twitter – how [...]

IDWAD needs: better way to meet at a distance…

I work at a distance. I work with people I know and have worked with f2f.  We meet weekly or more, and we use the following:

elluminate – web conferencing tool that is ugly, but works
sometimes DimDim (ugh) – frustrating web conferencing tool
teleconferences, i.e., phone

Sometimes, in addition we use things like:

wikis – PBWorks
Etherpad – for real [...]

Net Gen Students, eh?

I recently attended a session called, “Net Gen? Not so much” at the CeLC 2009 conference in Vancouver. This “Net Gen” issue is coming up a lot in my day to day work. It’s a classic extreme-position thing that gives people a lot to discuss and disagree about, and eventually land in a more informed [...]