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May 24, 2009
by Paul Hamilton
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Digital Tools for Learning Professionals

Jane’s E-Learning Pick of the Day is a blog where I often learn of new tools that are worth checking out.  Jane Hart of the Centre for Learning Performance Technologies (C4LPT), provides another helpful service in tracking the digital tools that learning professionals find most useful.

I appreciate Jane’s use of the term “learning professionals”, and many of us who are part of that group are not early adopters when it comes to digital resources.  So, I think it’s really helpful to have the opportunity to check out what other people are finding most useful in their work.  That’s why I recommend that you check out Jane’s evolving Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009 and her 25 Tools: A Toolbox for Learning Professionals (2009 Version).

For the record, my own top three tools at the moment are: Firefox, because with available addons, it is by far the most accessible browser I’ve come across; Google Reader because it offers a convenient and organized way for me to track the blog posts that power my learning curve; and the wiki because I find wikis to be incredibly versatile and useful for countless purposes.  (I’m most familiar with the wiki platform offered by  PBWorks.)