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Zotero - a useful research tool

February 22nd, 2008 · 2 Comments

A great research tool that sits within Firefox and can be accessed both on- and offline. Like del.icio.us, Zotero automatically captures citation information from web pages and allows you to add notes, tags and attachments. Unlike del.icio.us it also stores copies of Word and PDF docs, images and other files.
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Tags: Web 2.0 · tools

Central Desktop - a team collaboration tool

February 12th, 2008 · No Comments

I’ve chosen Central Desktop to manage our Audio Supported Enhanced Learning Project. Like Backpack, CD is a web-based organisational and team collaboration tool, but is a lot more sophisticated and has many more features. It allows you to create online workspaces to share documents and files, manage task lists and milestones, and engage [...]

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Tags: Technology · collaboration · tools

Top 100 tools for learning

November 27th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Jane Hart, head of the Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies, has produced a useful list of the most popular tools used by learning professionals. The list is a mix of proprietary, open source and web-based tools. She has also grouped them by type, and given other suggestions of similar tools in each category.

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