Tools+for+Social+and+group+teaching

[|http://eleventoolsfrommalta.wikispaces.com/] This is link to another small Wiki, describing some tools of value in social or group teaching

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Building your PLE Your PLE is your personal learning environment and is generally taken to be the collection of tools you use to explore the internet. The following suggestions were harvested from Week 2 and Week seven of [|PLENK2010], a very large 10 week online course facilitated by George Siemens, TEKRI, Stephen Downes, NRC, Dave Cormier, UPEI and Rita Kop, NRC.

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1. [|http://browsershots.org]demonstrates how any URL looks in a multitude of browsers across platforms 2. http://camstudio.org/ record all screen and audio activity on your computer 3. HTML Code Generator can be found at [|http://htmlcode.discoveryvip.com/]- N.B I know this works in the IE8 browser, but not Firefox ! 4. Xinha Here! is a Firefox plugin that gives you a rich text editor that is available with any text area – doesn’t work in Chrome 5. generating URL 'shorteners - //[|http://bit.ly/]//[|http://www.tinyurl.com.au/]http://goo.gl/VWTC (available as a Chrome plugin at: [|the link]. 6. [|Lazarus addon] to firefox to resuscitate lost form messages(has saved my life many times) 7.[|Diigo] highlights and annotates webpages does it- works also in password accessed environments like Moodle courses 9. [|Zotero Everywhere]standalone desktop version of Zotero with full integration into a variety of web browsers 10 [|text2mindmap]Text 2 Mind Map is a web application that converts texts to mind map 11. VISUAL ORGANISER FOR FAVOURITES - [|Symbaloo] 12. 6 Free Tools For Managing Time Differences 13. Sean Fitzgeralds's [|Tips]for subscribing to the forums 14. "Curated.By" users to aggregate different conversations/discussions - http://www.curated.by/home 15. http://twapperkeeper.com to save archives of my stream or of hashtags 16. https://rowfeeder.com/ -takes archiving twitter to a different data place- writes it to your own Google spreadsheet, so you can run your own stats 17. [|Feedjit]Live Traffic Feed includes photo and links to their website and social profiles 18. Disqus is a service that allows you to manage conversations on your blog and the other blogs that you comment on 19. [|http://tiddlyspace.com/] **TiddlySpace**[|?] lets you create notebooks on the web for any purpose 20. [|Jing:] instant screenshots and screencasts 21. Tools available for academics [|http://digitalresearchtools.pbworks.com/] 22. [|Evernote]: killer application keeps notes that can contain text, images, webpages, files, document, sound file, all saved in 'the cloud' which **sync** across ALL of my computers (PC & Apple) and iPhone. 23. [|http://www.shambles.net/csmith/pln/#shambles]Chris Shambles megasite 24. free software [|http://www.informationtamers.com/WikIT/index.php?title=Free_mind_mapping_and_related_types_software] 25. [|Mindmeister] can sync it with a Mindmeister app on my iTouch 26. Comapping www.comapping.com simple, allows chat and works well for maps, works and projects (Not free) 27. [|Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies (C4LPT)]‘THE’ tool list 28. [|http://www.wordle.net]Create Word Clouds Plenk2010 Wordles. 29. 'ZOOMING IN' ON PARTS OF DIAGRAMS with [|PREZI]presentation tool 30. [|Pearltrees]as a visual tool. See PLENK2010 site as a Pearltree at http://pear.ly/wNev 32. [] Create your **online card** online in which you'll be able to integrate **your networks** 34. [] a graphical representation of tools customisable in search by country or category 35. [|Dropbox] online storage tool, sync and share your files online and across computers. Free for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Mobile, designed for both iPhone and iPad 36. [] Read Twitter as a daily newspaper 37. http://paper.li/tag/plenk2010 for your daily dose of PLENK2010 related tweets 38. [|Friendfeed] creates a news feed from networks you belong to (Facebook, Digg, etc) http://friendfeed.com/plenk2010 public group 39. [|Trailmeme] a new kind of publishing that allows you to blaze and walk trails through the web Eva’s [|trail] 40. Zaid’s [|Powerpoint 10] recommendation 41. [|Screenr]screen recording tool 42. [|Wolfram|Alpha]- computational knowledge engine 43. [|Goofram]- a mashup of Google and Wolfram 44. [|Synchtube]create public and private rooms where you can watch synchronzied **YouTube**[|?] videos with up to 50 people 45. [|Free Technology for Teachers]blog by Richard Byrne 46. [|http://tweettabs.com/]allows you to open several tabs with different Twitter search queries, browser-based 47. etherpad and backchan offer incredible value for collaboration through their ranking feature, similar to ideascale 48. [|Wix] CREATE A FLASH P.L.E/PLN – [|Julias site] 49. PLENK2010 Facebook Page [|http://www.facebook.com/plenk2010] 50. grou.ps is a tool that can replace Ning as collaborative social network 51. folksemantics (search, recommend, collaborate, remix) 52. Backchan.nl (open source) and ideascale (proprietary, but free basic account) are idea/comment collecting tools 56. Myers Briggs 'Type' type [|generator] for blogs
 * 8. [|Zotero]**is a **Firefox extension** which help you **collect, manage, cite, and share** research sources. It needs the most recent version of Firefox to function effectively
 * 33.** [|http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2008/04/free-learning-tool-for-every-learning.html]master list of learning tools which uses a Q&A approach