DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
Innovative educators are embracing social media to fight back against the onslaught of problems. Technologies such as Twitter and Skype offer ideal solutions as inexpensive tools of team-based education.
http://mashable.com/2010/01/10/educators-social-technology/…
Kevin Honeycutt has recently released an updated version of his music video I Need My Teachers to Learn. It’s a nice little video about the importance of teachers being life-long learners who adapt their teaching methods to meet the needs …
A research project at Tel Aviv University is tackling the problem of making Captcha more secure. Captcha is an open source program created by a team from Carnegie Mellon University. It consists of a component that shows wavy letters on …
Many people use Twitter as a backchannel, but there are some people who would prefer a different solution – because, otherwise, audience members must obtain Twitter accounts participate, which they may not want to do, and the conversation may be …
Great article teaching how to back up hard drive data on your computer when the operating system won’t boot.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-back-up-data-on-your-computer-that-wont-boot…
The How To E-D-U Your How-To guide for Higher education has just published a list of 50 educational games, including 13 aimed at college or adult students.
http://howtoedu.org/2010/50-free-online-educational-games-that-are-more-fun-than-youd-think/…
In this talk Stephen Downes outlines the differences between learning using a personal learning environment (PLE) and learning in a CMS (Course Management System, like Moodle for example). He argues that a PLE does what an LMS cannot do – …
It’s pretty basic, but if you want to convince people about open learning, this will do the job. After a short introduction, the author surveys a wealth of free learning resources, beginning with the basics, then to the how-to section …
Which issues in education technology should drive policymaking in 2010? Start with establishing technology as the “backbone of school improvement,” and we’ll be on the right track, according to the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), which published a …
If you want to learn a new language or if you want to know how that e-learning tool works, you have plenty of online help to reach those goals. The following list of fifty top blogs for e-learning tools and …
At the start of each year, eLearn Magazine’s contributors predict what changes are afoot for the coming 12 months. Here are our predictions for 2010.
http://elearnmag.org/subpage.cfm?section=articles&article=106-1…
Google is now offering a small virtual hard drive in the cloud so you can access all sorts of files anywhere — the latest salvo in an arms race to become the dominant player in cloud services.
Some estimates put the number of presentations on the web close to 30 to 50 million. But we have to search them out. Using a general search engine with PPT as a filetype query is one way. But if you …
If you’ve ever tried to find your favorite movie scenes on YouTube or other video networks, you’ve probably noticed it’s not always the easiest thing to find the direct quotes you’re looking for. Not only are these classic scenes hard …
Hans de Zwart surveys what to expect in the new version of Moodle. The most interesting thing about Moodle 2.0 to me is that it will import external blogs. “Blogging should be done on a platform that is as open …