It's the end of the year

Time for a Top ___ List!

The Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies, a U.K.-based group, recently released a Top 100 List of the best tech resources for learning. The list was created from the feedback of more than 200 education and adult learning professionals. Here are the Top 10:

1. Delicious
2. Mozilla Firefox
3. Google Reader
4. Skype
5. Wordpress
6. Google Search
7. Google Docs
8. PowerPoint
9. Moodle
10. Blogger

Not surprisingly, web giant Google is the driving force behind almost half of this list! I have experience with a few of these tools (I'm using Skype, Blogger, and Firefox right now) and have begun to explore a few others as part of this blog. The one that seems to be getting the most buzz--and that I know least about--is Delicious, which is a "social bookmarking" tool. At first glance, the site is a place for users to share their lists of sites of interest with everyone. The links are divided into categories and the site makes a great springboard for web searches and rainy day browsing. Anyone can sign up for an account and start sharing.

A lot of educator blogs that I have read say that Delicious is the second coming. I am not sure that I have the research to agree or disagree just yet, but the list of Web 2.0 bookmarks is enough to make me want to know more.

Here is the rest of the list. If you have a web resource that has done wonders for you or your classroom, let me know!