DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
There are three tools that I typically recommend to those who are looking to just record short spoken audio tracks and don’t require additional editing functions. Those three tools are Vocaroo, Online Voice Recorder, and Twisted Wave.
https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2020/06/three-ways-to-record-to-make-short.html…
Online university courses may not be able to replicate the experience of on-campus social life. But in terms of teaching, well-designed online learning can be more satisfactory than sitting in a large lecture theatre. Here are five ways online learning …
Eric Mazur gave an insightful webinar entitled “How to Flip your Class Online When the World is Flipping Out”. This webinar outlined the importance of social learning and explored some of the key benefits of using the Perusall platform to …
Microsoft is creating a new kind of Office document. Instead of Word, Excel, or PowerPoint, the company has created Lego blocks of Office content that live on the web. The tables, graphs, and lists that you typically find in Office …
Once you’ve downloaded a few dozen books to your Kindle, it becomes difficult to keep everything organized. Sorting through hundreds of titles to find what you’re looking for is no fun, which is why organizing your Kindle books is important. …
There have been several new announcements from universities across the country firming up their plans for the fall term. Nearly all are preparing for primarily online learning when classes reconvene, although most still hold out the possibility that there will …
Canada’s education system needs a transformation, and experts say 5G technology – with its increased speed and reliability – could help make it happen more quickly.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/featured-reports/article-how-5g-will-help-make-classrooms-smarter/…
The coronavirus killed corporate culture. Get used to working from home.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/never-go-back-office/611830/…
The video is a complete overview of how to use EDpuzzle to create video lessons without having to create your own videos. There are timestamps in the description of the video so that you can jump directly to different sections …
There is one thing about which I am certain. Those students of the (potential) class of 2020 who work through this horrible situation and come out the other side in a good mental state will be the leaders of the …
The pioneering online learning networks offer hard-earned lessons for what works and what doesn’t with online education.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/26/technology/moocs-online-learning.html…
Here are some resources to help students understand copyright, Creative Commons, and fair use.
https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2020/05/five-resources-for-teaching-and.html…
At home, it seems to be a bit easier to focus on all the work,” said one eighth grader who was struggling in school. “Everything in general is easier.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/20/nyregion/coronavirus-students-schools.html…