DIRECTORY OF LEARNING TOOLS 2011 (provided by Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies)

INSTRUCTIONAL TOOLS  Tools for creating, delivering, managing and/or tracking learning and/or providing a formal social learning environment.	Authoring Tools Testing & Quizzing Tools Course Mgt & LMS Miscellaneous
SOCIAL & COLLABORATION SPACES  These social media platforms include public social networks as well as tools to create private collaborative spaces for groups or communities	Public social networks and collaboration platforms Small group and community tools Large community and enterprise platforms
WEB MEETING, CONFERENCING & VIRTUAL WORLD TOOLS  Tools for delivering live meetings, screen sharing and virtual worlds	Web meetings Screen sharing Webcasting Video conferencing Virtual worlds
DOCUMENT & PRESENTATION TOOLS Personal and collaborative tools to create, host and share documents, PDFs, e-Books, presentations and spreadsheets.	Document creation Document hosting Presentation creation Presentation hosting PDF tools 3D (page turning) tools Spreadsheet tools
BLOGGING, WEB  & WIKI TOOLS   Tools to create blogs, web pages/sites and wikis as well as provide interactivity on those sites	Blogging tools Wiki tools Web page/site tools Form, polling and survey tools RSS feed tools Web plugins and accessories
IMAGE, AUDIO AND VIDEO TOOLS  Tools to create, edit and/or host images, avatars, audio files, podcasts, screencasts and videos	Image editing Screen capture Image galleries & hosting Audio/podcast editing Audio streaming Audio hosting Video editing Screencasting Video streaming Video hosting General file/media sharing
COMMUNICATION TOOLS  Tools for a range of synchronous and asynchronous communication activities	Email tools Newsletter tools SMS/text tools IM tools Chat rooms Voice groups Discussion forums
MICROSHARING TOOLS  & TWITTER APPS  These tools are for real-time updating (140 characters at a time) both publically or privately, as well as a range of useful Twitter apps	Micro-sharing tools Twitter apps
OTHER COLLABORATION & SHARING TOOLS  These are further tools for collaboration and sharing with others.	Social bookmarking Curation tools Collaborative research Collaborative annotation Shareable notes/notebooks Shareable/group organizers Collaborative corkboards Collaborative whiteboards Collaborative mindmapping Calendar sharing/Event scheduling Shareable maps Sharing files across computers Misc collaboration tools
PERSONAL PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS  These tools are for an individual's personal working, learning and/or productivity purposes.	Search and discovery tools Research/Study tools Save to read for later Alerts Personal organizers Personal notebooks Personal mindmapping Time management Personal calendars Timers Calculators Password managers Accessibility tools Spellcheckers Computer desktop tools Misc tools
BROWSERS, PLAYERS AND READERS  These tools are useful for browsing the web and accessing, viewing and reading web content	Browsers Add-ons, extensions, bookmarklets & toolbars RSS & News readers Other desktop apps & players Downloaders Social aggregators Start pages