Each year, Jane Hart, at The Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies pulls together a list of the top tools for learning by asking learning professionals to provide a list of their top 10 learning tools. Here are the top tools for 2010 http://c4lpt.co.uk/top-tools/top-100-tools-for-learning-2010/. I’m voting for my top 10 tools for 2011 below. The 2011 list will be finalized at 12 noon GMT on Sunday 13 November 2011. If you want to vote for your top 10 for 2011, here’s where to go to vote http://c4lpt.co.uk/top-tools/share-your-top-10-tools/.

My top 10 tools for 2011:

1. Hootsuite http://hootsuite.com/ and Twitter http://twitter.com/ as a personal learning network
2. Articulate Suite http://www.articulate.com/products/studio.php for narrated PPT for faculty and for building async online lessons
3. Adobe Captivate http://www.adobe.com/products/captivate.html/ for building application demos and simulations as well as
4. VoiceThread http://www.voicethread.com for collaborative commenting and sharing
5. SnagIt http://www.techsmith.com/snagit.html for screen capture and basic image editing
6. FormSite http://www.formsite.com/ Online form and survey tool
7. Google Docs https://docs.google.com/ for collaborative writing
8. Google forms http://www.google.com/google-d-s/forms/ for creating forms to collect data
9. YouTube http://www.youtube.com/ for finding videos
10. PowerPoint 2010 – What a great update!