DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
Microsoft Sway is a free digital storytelling tool and mobile app that allows students to create and share visually appealing presentations, newsletters, personal stories and interactive reports.
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2017/02/here-is-excellent-tool-for-creating_27.html…
It’s a golden age of education podcasts. Teachers, professors, education innovators, and tech skeptics have switched on their microphones to share their insights and analysis—and you’ll find plenty of lively characters and fresh voices via your earbuds.
https://www.edsurge.com/news/2017-01-11-16-education-podcasts-to-check-out-in-2017…
Data socialization is a term that’s being heard more frequently, and it’s an attempt to tackle the ongoing (and often mission-critical) process of making sure the right data is in front of the right person – a decision maker …
Drexel University biomedical engineers and Princeton University psychologists have used a wearable brain-imaging device called functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to measure brain synchronization when humans interact. fNIRS uses light to measure neural activity in the cortex of the brain …
It’s a golden age of education podcasts. Teachers, professors, education innovators, and tech skeptics have switched on their microphones to share their insights and analysis—and you’ll find plenty of lively characters and fresh voices via your earbuds.
https://www.edsurge.com/news/2017-01-11-16-education-podcasts-to-check-out-in-2017…
We give a lot of information, but little processing time in class. Luckily, there are easy ways to change that. Today, we talk 30 second videos. The idea is to record a 30 second or shorter video explaining, or …
Moodle just announced an updated release of their Moodle Mobile App. The Moodle Mobile 3.2.1 release brings with it a number of features and improvements at enhancing users experience and performance.
https://moodle.com/2017/02/28/moodle-mobile-3-2-1-landed-new-exciting-features-improvements/…
“The world is changing. It’s looking for people who are creative and entrepreneurial, and that’s not going to happen in a system that tells kids what to do all day,” Samantha says. “So how do you do that? Well …
The right Add-on can go a long way toward streamlining your process for completing common classroom tasks like keeping track of supplies or organizing classroom volunteers. Here are the five Google Forms Add-ons I refer people to more than …
Here is a great selection of some very good iPad apps to use with blind and visually impaired students. While some of the featured apps are free, others are are not. You may want to go through the collection …
Sentiment Analysis is the process of determining whether an information or service provided leads to positive, negative or neutral human feelings or opinions.
https://simplified-analytics.blogspot.ca/2016/05/sentiment-analysis-in-age-of-digital.html…
Trend usually implies that something is short term, like a one-hit wonder on the radio, but when we talk about educational technology, these trends are here to not only stay, but grow. While it is hard to choose the …
We are facing unprecedented threats to the digital safety of our personal information. Here are nine tips to foil hackers, ransomware, online trackers, data brokers and other menaces.
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-to-protect-your-digital-privacy-in-the-era-of-public-shaming…