25 Tools for Learning professionals - The browser

25 Tools
 every Learning Professional should have in their Toolbox - and all for FREE!

http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/25Tools/index.html

On this page is an easy overview of the tools and what they do. I like this site a lot because it’s geared to people like you and me, who need exposure, access and training in a variety of contexts and modalities.

First on her list is Firefox–arguable the best browser available. Browsers are a basic web tool. I think of mine as my web dashboard. All the other tools I use and the tasks I accomplish are enabled through my browser, technically and practically. For example, I could not possible interact in all the social spaces I do, without letting Firefox save all my passwords. And using browser tabs (instead of new windows) let’s me more easily multitask and manage multiple frames of reference I work in. Having typically 4-8 applications open at a time, managing my desktop is made a bit easier when I’ve got one browser window open, with multiple tabs.

The functionality of your browser can be extended with plugins, little applications you add into it. I use a plugin for Google notebook. It lets me easily clip text and media out of the web and into a web-based notebook.

Congratulations to Beth Pollard

2005 pICT Fellow, Beth Pollard has recently published on her pICT project in the prestigious journal The History Teacher.

Pollard, E. (2008, November). Raising the stakes: Writing about witchcraft on wikipedia. The History Teacher, 42(1). 9-24.

The Social Web - social networking and more!