25 tools – a professional development resource, by the indefatigable Jane Hart, is divided into 8 categories, ranging from “bare essentials”, via “share content with others”, to “develop and manage courses”.
Each tool is tagged by whether it requires downloading and installation on your own computer, or runs as a hosted service, or both; and for each Jane provides several simple activities to help you find out about the tool itself, and about the technology behind each tool.
One might take issue with a few of Jane’s choices (for example, from my exposure to both I am fan of EditMe over PBWiki); and possibly the resource could be rationalized a bit.
But Jane deserves thanks and congratulations for bringing this ambitious set of materials into one place.
Might there be a point in putting some or all of the activities into a collaboratively editable form to enable users to contribute to their maintenance and development? If yes, I'd be game to contribute.
Seb, Thanks for hightlighting this resource. They weren't exactly "my" choices - but rather the free tools that topped the different tool categories in the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2008.
I'll give some thought as to how best to develop a collaborative editable version. It certainly makes sense in this Learning 2.0 age. Maybe we could even use PBwiki !!!!!
Posted by: Jane Hart | 13/04/2008 at 15:23