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Professional Learner's Toolkit

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Jane Hart recently shared her  Modern Professional Learner's Toolkit , based on the Top 100 Tools for Personal & Professional Learning 2017 . Image by Jane Hart Inspired by Jane Hart, I created my own Professional Learner's Toolkit: FAVORITE WEB BROWSER : Safari is my all time favorite, but I also use Chrome, because of some features that Safari doesn't support - yet (e.g. new Google Sites) FAVORITE SEARCH ENGINE : Google search - despite its algorithms, it's still my number one, using search operators helps a lot. TRUSTED WEB RESOURCES : BBC for European News, New York Times and Washington Post for world news and Google Scholar for scholarly literature. NEWS & CURATION TOOLS : Feedly is my favorite RSS and I try to check it on a daily basis, but it can happen that days go by and I don't have time to look at my feed. Pinterest is still my number one curation tool, despite its being closed to those who don't own an account with i...