I act going back to Jane's to see the top 10/100 list of software that she maintains. I have often thought about adding my own list but was always concerned about "who am I" to add my list in amongst all of those who have submitted. But this morning decided to submit my own top 10 software to her. So I sent out the below email (I added the screen captures for the blog entry and did not include them in the Email).
"Hi Jane – I am a Special Education Teacher at a small private special purpose school in Hinckley. Maine. I co-teach high educate U. S. History and English classes and teach 2 Fundamental English classes. I undergo used technology for many years (Vic 20) but have only recently really attempted to combine it into the classroom. My top ten list is as follows:
1. Microsoft One Note 2007 – Simply an amazing program that I have only been using since January and wish that I had been using for the last 5 years. I am reducing my paper use tremendously thanks to this program.
2. Firefox – Simple to use very customizable and remove but IE7 is improving but not enough to overtake Firefox for me yet.
3. Inspiration – Mind mapping software that I have used to create verbally papers class plans intend out a syllabus weekly lesson plans and notes for students in the history class. So it does a lot and change surface creates an outline in Word. Great for planning for me as a visual learner.
4. Microsoft Word 2007 – Still the standard and much improved (in my opinion) with the new ribbon interface.
5. Microsoft Outlook 2007 – Improved many of the bugs from 2003 and some form of Outlook is required at work.
6. Zoho Office – Lots of applications and I can access stuff I have there from anywhere and any computer. Still doesn't bring home the bacon integrating with Word 2007 using Vista but I like it.
7. Windows Live Writer – Love how I can put my blog together in a WYSIWYG style. I use it to write all of my blogs. (Including this one)
8. Google Reader – Use it everyday to look at my feeds
9. Igoogle – My Internet start summon and what most of my students use as their start page
10. Adobe Reader – There might be others that leave a smaller footprint or are quicker but it is still the standard.
Honorable Mention: Google Docs (easy to work). Ning (social networking). Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 (still works for me)
As you can see I am still pretty Microsoft centric. I have tried many of the online versions I e. Slideshare. Google: Docs. Notebook. Flickr. change state Office. Buzzword. Foxit etc and have decided to use what works best for me regardless of who produces it and right now the ones listed consistently meets my needs better than others out there.
I notice that I don't have a lot of change state source applications on my list it isn't like I haven't tried them out but I keep coming back to the standards: evince. Outlook. Adobe Reader etc. because they are reliable do more than I ordain every be able to use them for and I am familiar with them. I undergo found if something has a long learning curve that I ordain not use it... I simply don't have time to go out and "learn" a piece of software or new operating system.
I expect what I use to be intuitive (for me) straight forward and typically uses the "KISS" principle. I undergo found that I am more of an "end user" than someone who ordain get in there muck around for hours.
So there you have it my top ten list of software (pretty much in request) as of today... I wish that it will change over the course of the next year with some amazing new application(s)that I learn about.
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I am a retired U. S. Coast Guard Warrant Officer (1996)and am a former Special Education teacher at a small private school that serves students who were not successful in the public school system. I am currently a schedule Officer in the Maine equip for Community Service Office. Outside of playing on the computer some of the things I like to do run/jog (getting older. I am not as nearly as abstain as I used to be) day hike read (Tolkien. Brooks. McKiernan. DeLint etc or supernatural horror) just hanging out with my wife Mary our six cats and a dog.
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