Tools To Enhance Your Personal Learning Environment

1. Good Videos

1.1. Critical Thinking

1.2. In Plain English (Excellent tutorials)

1.3. Machine is Us/ing Us

1.4. 5 Minute University (humor)

1.5. Medieval Helpdesk (humor)

1.6. TeacherTube

1.7. SchoolTube

1.8. YouTube

1.9. Art School (humor)

2. Content Sharing

2.1. Curriki

2.2. NROC

2.3. ProProfs

2.4. High School Learning

2.5. Graphic Sharing Flicrk CC

2.6. GoogleDocs

2.7. SlideShare

2.8. Wisc Online Learning Object Repository

2.9. MERLOT

3. Social Networks and Individualism

3.1. Ning

3.2. Pageflakes

3.3. iGoogle

4. Content Creation

4.1. Engage

4.2. Toondoo

4.3. VoiceThreads

4.4. Prezi

4.5. KeepVid

4.6. Dipity

4.7. Glogster

4.8. FolderBoy

4.9. Lectora

4.10. SoftChalk

4.11. HeadMagnet.com

4.12. QR Codes

5. Websites that Teach

5.1. Go2.0Web

5.2. Popacular

5.3. MakeUseOf

5.4. Faculty Resources (Many like this)

5.5. UDTechToolKit

5.6. All My Faves

6. Collaborative Mapping Tools

6.1. mindmeister

6.2. mindomo

6.3. bubble.us

6.4. text2mindmap

6.5. gliffy

6.6. Wallwisher

7. Wikis

7.1. PbWorks

7.2. Wikipedia

8. Sending Large Files

8.1. File Url

8.2. DropBox

9. Blogging

9.1. Edublogs

9.2. WordPress

9.3. Blogger

9.4. MicroBlogging

9.4.1. Twitter

9.4.2. Utterli

9.4.3. Yammer

10. Borrow/Use Content

10.1. Curriki

10.2. NROC

10.3. ProProfs

10.4. SlideShare

10.5. Graphic Sharing Flickr CC

10.6. McGrawHill (and other Book Mnf)

10.7. Wisc Online

10.8. MIT Open Courseware

10.9. Carnegie Mellon Open Courses

10.10. Open Yale Courses

11. Audio

11.1. Chinswing

11.2. Skype

11.3. Pandora

11.4. Live messenger

11.5. Audacity

11.6. Sony Sound Forge

11.7. SoundBible

12. Social Bookmarks

12.1. TrackStar

12.2. Delicious

12.3. Diigo

13. Graphic Editors and Graphical Representations

13.1. picnik

13.2. snipshot

13.3. doppelme

13.4. tagcrowd

13.5. Wordle

13.6. Gliffy FlowCharts

13.7. Eclipse Crossword Puzzles

13.8. tineye

13.9. getpaint.net

13.10. shrinkpictures

13.11. fotoflexor

14. Screen Capture Tools

14.1. Captivate

14.2. Jing

14.3. Adobe Presenter

14.4. Camtasia

14.5. SnagIt

14.6. ScreenToaster

15. Polling Tools

15.1. Zoho Polls

15.2. Search Twitter

15.3. Surveymonkey

15.4. Zoomerang

15.5. Polls Everywhere

15.6. Doodle

16. Presentation Links

16.1. Designing Interactive Courses

16.2. Customization

16.3. Age Cohorts

17. Books, news, articles

17.1. amazon.com

17.2. googlereader

17.3. del.icio.us