One of the features of Sakai that our team was looking for in a new LMS is a blogging tool. admit some significant improvements in usability are possible in this tool. However, it does give us the option of blogging within the system. Previously, we’ve used tools like Wikispaces and Edublogs, but we’ve had a number of requests for internal tools that don’t require a separate login and location. During the pilot of our new facilitator training course, I lurked in the forums during a heated debate about the use of the blog tool. MORE >>

Free Learning Tool for Every Learning Problem? 101 Free Learning Tools OpenCourseWare and Open Educational Resources Free EduGames Printer-Friendly Version Lets explore the idea that there is at least one excellent free learning tool (or site) for every learning problem, need or issue! Gmail Social bookmarking tool? Social bookmarking tool with collaborative learning features (groups, forums, etc.)? Diigo Tool to translate text or a webpage? Google Language Tools RSS reader? Tool to assist me in evaluating and selecting a LMS? del.icio.us MORE >>

June’s BQ is… “what tools should we learn?&#. When I think about the tools, I always come back to the fact that they are all just typing, so that is the critical thing to learn (but even that will be obsolete someday).  If I had to put together a list of specific tools for today: Blogging tool ( WordPress for me) – can cover many things – you could build a self-paced course (yes, I know we are so over the “course&# , but corporate people need them), insert hyperlinks, photos, videos, reflect and organize your thoughts and write for the web.  MORE >>

Jane Hart is collating her annual list of the tools people use to support learning and development. Chrome's developer analysis tools are second-to-none. It's not just a blogging tool. There are other web-based meeting/presentation tools. tool that I push at every opportunity. Here's my contribution. In descending order of importance: Google search. Need I say more? It's fast. know how to get the best out of it. It's my secondary brain. Google Chrome. was a Firefox person, but Chrome is just so much faster. Snagit. From Techsmith. Also from Techsmith. MORE >>

To those that have questioned whether all online participants must actively contribute to a blog, wiki, etc. Think of Twitter or other internal micro-blogging tools, for example, and you have a classic example of lurking. in order to actually learn, I say bunkum. Hogwash. Claptrap. Bollocks. Learning is a process. Learning is different to all of us. Lurking can and should be thought of in better terms. Lurking could be equated to reading, interpreting, synthesizing or augmenting for purposes of gaining further acumen, insight and understanding. learning 2.0 MORE >>