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Top 100 Tools for Learning 2015
Each year Jane Hart does some serious crowd-sourcing. Earlier this week, she released her 9th annual Top 100 Tools for Learning.
Each year Jane’s list becomes a little checklist for me, actually a kind of shopping list. I enjoy watching the trends and seeing what’s hot.
To create the list, Jane surveyed more than 2,000 learning professionals from around the world. Some tools have simply become classics or staples.
As Jane notes: For the 7th year running Twitter is the No 1 tool on the list, although this year it is very closely followed by YouTube. Twitter is seen as a prime place for professional networking, news and updates. YouTube is described as a place to learn anything or to get just-in-time performance support. So, if you need to make a case for the prevalence of these or other platforms that may be blocked in your school, this list may help you make the case.
The lists of new/returning tools and movers include so many of the platforms I now see as essentials in my personal app-smashing toolkit. Among them: Canva, Piktochart, Videoscribe, ThingLink, iMovie, Kahoot, Padlet and Skype.
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Examining the list reaffirms my introduction of several tools to my pre-service librarian classes and encourages me to explore so many options I’ve missed.
New (and returning) tools
- Screencast-O-Matic (back in at 27)
- Videoscribe (new in at 48)
- Office Mix (new in at 51)
- GoAnimate (new in at 63)
- Sway (new in at 70)
- iMovie (back in at 78)
- MovieMaker (back in at 76)
- Canva (new in at 81)
- Trello (back in at 82)
- Slack (new in at 83)
- Udemy (new in at 87)
- ThingLink (new in at 89)
- Piktochart (new in at 93)
- Adobe Acrobat DC (back in at 94)
- Mentimeter (new in at 97)
- edX (new in at 99
Big movers UP the list
- Kahoot up 64 places (to 17)
- WhatsApp up 62 places (to 21)
- Canvas up 41 places (to 37)
- Schoology up 37 places (to 61)
- iPad & Apps up 31 places (to 16)
- Socrative up 30 places (to 32)
- OneNote up 22 places (to 46)
- SharePoint up 20 places (to 45)
- PowToon up 27 places (to 19)
- Padlet up 19 places (to 29)
- Skype up 16 places (to 9)
Jane Hart is a writer, speaker and independent workplace learning adviser, and founder of C4LPT. Her blog was rated top of the 50 most socially shared Learning & Development blogs.
About Joyce Valenza
Joyce is an Assistant Professor of Teaching at Rutgers University School of Information and Communication, a technology writer, speaker, blogger and learner. Follow her on Twitter: @joycevalenza
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