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 many approaches to adopting new technologies (or any educational tools, for that matter). Thinking about these approaches inspired me to create a possible plan for investing in and integrating new technologies.
http://www.schoolcio.com/article/a-plan-for-technology-integration/52492…
Through edX, the two institutions will collaborate to enhance campus-based teaching and learning and build a global community of online learners.
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/mit-harvard-edx-announcement-050212.html…
Here are seven ways that teachers can use to help students pay more attention when using technology.
http://edudemic.com/2012/05/7-ways-to-keep-students-focused-while-using-technology/…
“Up until now, ‘technology’ has been an authority delivering the lecture which [students] memorized. If there is discussion, it’s mostly about performing for the teacher. Is it possible to make that more of a peer-to-peer activity? Blogs and forums and …
Sharing audio messages with your students on your blog or classroom website is an effective way to maintain communication with them and their parents. Here is a list of some awesome tools that can allow you to easily record a …
We are now more than a decade into the 21st century. However, for all the innovations that new technologies have brought to consumer affairs, business, entertainment, and government, one sector of society—education—remains stubbornly planted in the 20th century.
http://chronicle.com/article/Cloud-Technology-Can-Lift-the/131673/…
With kids as young as five and six immersed in Google’s product suite, which provider do you think they’ll choose when creating personal email accounts later on in life?
http://mashable.com/2012/04/30/generation-growing-up-google/…
Previous heroic massive open online course (MOOC) efforts such as Khan Academy, MITx, and Udacity have been limited by their inability to embrace a full range of the types of courses offered on a traditional campus. Coursera is attempting to …
While you will never prevent all interruptions in your classroom, a more subtle solution is to embrace this disruptive technology and incorporate it into your teaching. Here’s how.
Many in the education market are still in love with open source systems, such as Moodle. However, they often do not realize – until it is too late, that “free” isn’t really free because customization has to constantly exist, support, …
With so many options on cloud storage services available, which ones should you choose? Here’s a rundown of the best cloud storage services, and why you should consider using them.
A starting guide for teachers who want to use iPad in their classrooms.
http://learningwithipads.blogspot.ca/2012/04/quick-guide-to-using-ipads-for-learning.html…
A great resource of web tools for teachers divided by categories.