What Can I Do With...?
Overview
These pages are intended to help you if you know something about a particular technology or tool and want ideas for what you can do with it. See What technology can I use for...? if you want to know what different tools can support a particular activity.
Below, you’ll find an alphabetic list of different types of technologies and tools, with links to pages on which you can learn more about each type. Where a particular type of technology can have more than one name (e.g. “chat” and “instant messaging”), we have grouped these on the same page. However, if you don’t see a particular name in this list, it may occur inside another page instead. In this case, type the name in Phoebe’s Search box at the top right of this window and click the Search button.
Note: As far as possible, we avoid naming specific products. In part, this is because the range of tools available is constantly changing, especially in the “freeware” sector. Moreover, where we do name a particular product, this should not be taken as an endorsement of, or advertisement for, that product.
A B C
Argumentation visualisation tools
Audience response systems
Audio blogs
Blogs
Bookmarking
Bulletin Boards
Chat
Citation tools
Clickers
Collaborative word processors
Collaborative writing tools
Concept-mapping tools
Conferencing
Course management systems
D E F
Databases (of online resources)
Digital audio
Digital cameras
Digital video
Digital media
Discussion forums
E-books
Electronic voting systems
Email
E-portfolios
G H I
Instant messaging
Interactive whiteboards
Internet telephony
J K L
Laptops
Learning Management systems
Learning objects
M N O
Mashups
MCQ tools
Messaging
Mind-mapping tools
Mobile devices
Mobile phones
Modelling tools
Multi-User Virtual Environments
Online bibliographies
Online databases
Online library catalogues
OPAC
P Q R S
PDAs
Podcasts
Polling systems
PowerPoint
Presentation tools
Questionnaire tools
Quiz tools
Reading lists
Referencing tools
Remote instrumentation
Repositories
RLOs
Reusable learning objects
RSS
Screen-capture tools
Screencasts
Search engines
Simulations
SMS
Social bookmarking
Social networking
Social software
Streaming audio
Streaming video
Survey tools
T U V
Tablet PCs
Telephony
Text editors
Text-messaging
Video blogs
Video-conferencing
Virtual classrooms
Virtual learning communities
Virtual learning environments
Virtual learning worlds
VLEs
VOIP
Voting systems
W X Y Z
Web 2.0
Webinars
Weblogs
Wikibooks
Wikis
Word processors
Writing tools