DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
Here are just a few of the great sites that are embracing game-based learning. Give them a try — they might just make you actually want to stay in to study for a change.
http://www.teachthought.com/trends/elearning/24-digital-tools-that-represent-new-ways-to-study/
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Not many of us like thinking about death — especially our own. But making plans for what happens after you’re gone is really important for the people you leave behind. Google just launched a new feature that makes it easy …
Today we are going to look at 20 great tips every teacher and student should be using to get the most of the collaborative learning opportunities Google Doc’s offers.
http://edgalaxy.com/journal/2013/4/12/20-google-docs-secrets-for-busy-teachers-and-students
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The following 7 educational technology platforms are good representatives of some of these changes, and the chart above is a snapshot of how exactly they’ve changed what’s possible in learning, from new sources of data to the potential for a …
Thrun discusses Udacity, learning and whether he has ever taken a MOOC.
https://www.edsurge.com/n/2013-04-02-udacity-s-sebastian-thrun-on-the-future-of-education
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Each of these has been a recommendation from someone within my PLN and so comes from very good authority and credibility.
http://www.fractuslearning.com/2013/04/11/education-technology-books/…
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Check out the list for 10 examples from a sea of videos that will leave you eager to learn more.
http://mashable.com/2013/04/04/youtube-education/
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At the beginning of a semester create a folder, share it with your students, and then for the whole semester you can distribute assignments to students by just adding new content to the folder.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/04/use-shared-google-drive-folders-to.html…
Google’s innovative visual technology will have many applications for teaching and learning.
http://www.emergingedtech.com/2013/04/5-ways-google-glass-can-be-used-in-education/
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There are ways to manage this information tsunami more efficiently, and tools to help. Here are five of the most popular, effective file management methods available to help you organize your online course work.
http://www.bestcollegesonline.com/blog/2013/04/04/5-tools-to-organize-online-course-work/…
These are the five tools that I recommend for creating and editing videos without installing any special software.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/04/the-five-best-tools-for-creating-videos.html…
Uruguay may only have 3.3 million inhabitants, but this South American country has distributed more than half a million free laptops to its students and teachers over the last five years.
http://thenextweb.com/la/2013/04/07/uruguays-one-laptop-per-child-program-impact-and-numbers/
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By using Google Apps as the background for my LMS, I can easily use any feature, function or app by working within the Google sphere.
http://edtechvoice.com/using-google-drive-as-an-lms/
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