I’m a great fan of Jane Hart’s Learning Tools Directory which she started in 2006.
For 2010 she has completely revised the structure, reflecting how things have changed over the last 4 years. Go have a look, but in brief here are the 12 new categories (taken from Jane’s blog post)

Instructional Tools
Tools for creating, delivering,  managing [...]

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The 2009 list is out from Jane Hart at the Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies.
As always this makes a great read.
Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009
View more documents from Jane Hart.
As Derek Wenmoth has commented, the lack of the main proprietary LMSs in the list is notable.
The top 10 tools are

Twitter
Delicious
YouTube
Google Reader
Google Docs
WordPress
SlideShare
Google [...]

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These are the slides from a workshop I did at Auckland University recently.
Teaching With Twitter
View more presentations from Carol Cooper-Taylor.
It has also been translated into Italian by Caterina Policaro. Grazie.

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I don’t know about you, but I get a lot of spam in my blog comments. In fact only 0.15% are legitimate. Yes the decimal point is in the right place.

Most of the spam is just the usual plethora of smut. But a small group of perpetrators are getting through the traps I have set [...]

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This page is part of the “How to teach with …” series, and may get updated from time to time. I’ll tweet when it has been updated.

As a teacher

what do you need to know about Twitter,
how do you use it,
why is its useful for learning and teaching,
When and where do you tweet?

What you need to [...]

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This is a great video. If you needs some stats start here. Here’s some highlights of the things that struck a chord with me:

By 2010 Gen Y will outnumber us baby boomers.
Social media has over taken porn on the web
Facebook added 100 million users in under 9 months
At least on US college has stopped issuing [...]

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In case you’ve missed it there is a new report out “Engaging The New Influencers” from Edelman.
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In June 2009, Edelman convened 100+ professors of communication, journalism, business and pubic relations to discuss how companies and organisations effectively engage with their stake holders through social media. Here are some of the bits that I found [...]

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Interesting post on the Google Blog recently: “Five million students going back to school are “going Google”.
It relates of course to the number of schools using Google apps education edition.
I love Google apps and use them to share material with all sorts of people. But this post got me uptight by its northern-hemisphere-centricness.  Come on [...]

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If you don’t want a picture of yourself on various blogs, wikis, forums etc. but you still want a picture you can make an avatar of yourself. One of the latest I come across, thanks to Jane’s eLearning Pick of the Day, is DoppelMe. On the right is one I created today.
This is early [...]

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As I noted in my last post I am preparing a new course. So this cartoon from Being Five really hit the spot for me:

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