For the third year running Jane Hart is collecting information about the most popular tools used by e-learning professionals. You can view the current 'Top 100 tools' along with comparisons to their previous years rankings on the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies website. There are some interesting new tools here towards the bottom of the list which I hadn't come across before.Better than that though is the opportunity to add your own input to the survey by contributing your own list of top 10 tools. There are 3 ways you can share your list:

1. Send a tweet to @c4lpt with the name of your top 10 tools

2. OR Write a blog posting and then send the link to Jane at jane.hart@C4LPT.co.uk

3. OR Follow the instructions on this page

So, my list?

1. flickrCC - I have to admit a bias 'cos I wrote it, but I still use this app often for locating Creative Commons images on flickr
2. del.iciou.us - I sometimes feel like part of my brain is stored here online
3. Google calendar - useful for running my life, and invaluable for co-ordinating groups of 2 or more people
4. Gmail - the second time my service provider took my mail server offline I switched to Gmail and I've never regretted it
5. Wikipedia - I've been drawn to it since it started, and it just keeps getting better.
6. YouTube - the amount of instructional material here is staggering, but you need an iron will not to be drawn into the pure entertainment aspects :)
7. Instructables - there's always something here that I want to add to my to-do list
8. Moodle - another open source success story. That's not to say there aren't some warts, but in some strange way they're our warts, and we can fix them any time we want to.
9. Screencast-O-Matic - hassle free screen cast and capture
10. The GIMP - the GNU image manipulation program. Took a while to master, but is powerful enough for the most demanding image editing tasks.

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