DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
Concerns over the effectiveness of standardized tests prompted the Association of American Colleges and Universities to begin working on a rubric-based alternative that is consistent and valid.
http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2015/10/14/could-rubric-based-grading-be-the-assessment-of-the-future/…
The basic fundamentals of coding is becoming a basic digital literacy that everyone should try to learn.
HelloSign makes it easy to sign PDFs and Word documents without having to print them.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2015/10/an-easy-way-to-digitally-sign-documents.html…
For the last few decades, Microsoft Word has been the de-facto standard for word processors across the working world. That’s finally starting to shift, and it looks like Google is the heir apparent. The company’s Google Docs solution (or to …
Research into student analytics at the newly established Center for Applied Innovation at the University of South Carolina could lay the groundwork for the next wave of personalized education.
A new online university preparing to launch later this month plans to help refugees continue their education and work toward a brighter future — all for free.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/online-university-for-refugees_5612c9e7e4b0dd85030cdefa…
Record audio plugin allows users to simply record a snippet of audio (in MP3 format) instead of uploading (or choosing) a file, anywhere that Moodle provides access to the file picker.
Below are three interesting Google Drive apps to use in your class to remotely present to your students. Check them out and share with us what you think of them.
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2015/10/3-excellent-google-drive-apps-to.html…
They offered me an iPad for the classroom, but the app I needed didn’t exist, so I said no. I needed to become an app developer. I teamed up with a programmer, and we created an app called Oncore. Here’s …
Google Drive is an incredibly useful tool for storing and sharing files even if they have been created outside of the Google Apps suite. I use it to store screencast videos that I’ve created. I also use it to store …
What makes a person able to function in such an environment? What constitutes the literacy that is missing in such a case? What type of learning design or learning technology is best suited to support learning in a free-form community-based …
Most of these books have been best sellers in the education section in Amazon.Whether you are a beginner teacher or a veteran, you will definitely find something interesting to enlighten your teaching and make you a better teacher.
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2015/10/10-must-read-books-for-every-teacher.html…
To provide the best possible learning experience, we as learning professionals have to adapt and find new ways to meet the changing needs of our learners. We must understand and embrace the meaning and the implications of these changes in …