Edubeacon

This week, Jane Hart’s Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies has announced the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009.  278 worldwide learning professionals contributed to the voting including Australian education leaders Glenn McMahon and Elaine Talbot.

Twitter is top of the list as one would expect.  It’s knocked Delicious from the top of the list.  Diigo is at position 22 but its familiarity and functionality has grown so much, one can guarantee that it will be further up next year.  Delicious is still the best starting point with social bookmarking but Diigo is so useful.

YouTube at number three, Google Reader in fourth place and Ning eleventh.  How many of these tools are accessible at your learning organisation?

It’s interesting to compare this list which indicates actual use against the Horizon Report which proposes trends.  The majority are open source and online applications and right in line with the trends.   No distinction is made between their application for in-school or post-school learning which is quite appropriate in this day and age when we must all be learners – equally.