So it is high time that I give an update, and Jane has provided me the perfect excuse as she recently announced the final results of the 2009 edition of her survey of Tools for Learning. Here are the top 10 tools for 2009, with the number of votes each received. Delicious. The growth of YouTube—not just in terms of the number of videos it serves up daily, but in how people perceive it—is evident by its climb from a modest 18th place in 2008 to 3rd in 2009. And another big climb is evident for SlideShare, which went from 31st in 2007 to 20th in 2008 to 7th in 2009. MORE >>

Social Bookmark (Delicious). Tags: Blogging Delicious Social Bookmark Technology Search Engine (Google). Firstly, I always check with Google to see if it can, and has, indexed the site. Type “site:yoursite.com&# into the search box (replace the yoursite.com with your own address, obviously) and see what comes back. This at least shows you if it’s been indexed, and how many pages. Google has so far indexed 685 pages from this blog alone (posts, categories, polls, tags, etc). There is an easy way to find out – Delicious.com/url. MORE >>

Wiki Wake-up Call and Use Cases WikiPatterns --A great collection of patterns and "anti-patterns" that spur (or impede) wiki adoption Because I use Delicious as part of my better memory, I like it when work teams use it to share web pages that are relevant to the team. Other Posts in the Series Tool Set 2009 Work Skills Keeping Up Top-Down Strategy Better Memory Information Radar Networks and Learning Communities Collaborate Twitter as Personal Work and Learning Tool Search Browser Short Cuts Work Literacy Workshop Browse eLearning Content at www.elearninglearning.com MORE >>

That could just be a set of annotated bookmarks (using, for example, Diigo or Delicious), but it may need to develop into a personal learning journal (aka blog) - perhaps hosted on Blogger, Edublogs or Wordpress.com, or on their own server (my choice) or on their organisation's servers. The world of social software is large, diverse and complex. There are a multitude of applications that sit within this space. Some of these are single purpose applications, such as Twitter, Wordpress, Google Docs, Google Reader etc. Some are multi-purpose, such as Facebook, Elgg and Moodle. Video (eg. MORE >>

Already he has a multitude of great videos that I have sampled, including videos on topics like: JING-Fantastic Screencasting Tool Easy podcasting Introduction to Moodle Make on-line surveys Downloading from YouTube How to use Blogger All about Delicious Photoshop basics All free for you to use. Let’s face it, whether you are a teacher, instructional designer, teaching assistant or multimedia developer, the shear amount of new tools being released on the Internet makes it difficult to stay up to date with what’s new and what can apply best to your specific discipline. MORE >>