DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
How important do you think it is for teachers to use educational technologies in the classroom? During this school year, how often do you or your students use [insert type of educational technology] in your classroom?
http://edtechreview.in/data-statistics/484-edtech-is-essential-infographic…
If you want to get started quickly, or if you’ve already been creating videos but are ready for something new, mysimpleshow may be the perfect tool for you. In just a few minutes, you can create a student-friendly, HD-quality …
If you are fed up with the generic grade book that is provided to you by your district and looking to have a different feel to your day to day grading, check out Kiddom today!
As a teacher, you can use Forms for a variety of purposes including: planning an event, making surveys and polls, creating quizzes, collecting feedback and other information from students and many more.
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2016/08/teachers-guide-to-using-new-google-forms.html…
This new addition to Boomerang for Gmail and Outlook helps you craft messages that are more likely to get a response. Some features are free; others will cost you.
https://www.cnet.com/how-to/write-better-emails-with-respondable/…
China has launched a new satellite which would be used for Quantum Key Distribution between the space and Earth using laser beams thrown at the ground stations. In the experimental phase, the project would be confined to China and …
Which is better for students — reading paper or reading digitally? We were all supposed to live in a Star Trek world with all reading done electronically and paper books, including textbooks, an antiquated curiosity. How’s that working out …
Microsoft has long reigned the productivity software market, but with the emergence of cloud-based computing, Google seems to follow suit. We now look at these two to decide which one is better, the Microsoft Office 365 or the Google …
Lesson Plan Tool for Docs enables you search for standards-aligned lesson plan resources within your Google Documents.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2016/07/a-new-lesson-plan-tool-for-google-docs.html…
What can virtual reality, the technology that arguably takes the viewer farthest away from the tangible world, teach students about expressing themselves and interacting with each other? Two experiments at two very different California schools aimed to find out.…
Audio books have surged in popularity in recent years, enabled by their ease of use and advancements in smart phones. Gone are the days of numbered cassettes and bulky players. Technology has created more opportunities to listen to good …
Say you’re scrolling through your Facebook Newsfeed and you encounter an ad so eerily well-suited, it seems someone has possibly read your brain. Maybe your mother’s birthday is coming up, and Facebook’s showing ads for her local florist. Whatever …
The old model of a teacher delivering a one-way message through a lecture is no longer engaging 21st-century students.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/don-tapscott/universities-must-enter-t_b_11306140.html…