DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
The Internet is full of great websites, but it’s often tough to separate the duds from the superheroes. We’ve got you covered, with our list of 100 Useful Websites You’ve Probably Never Heard Of.
http://superheroyou.com/100-useful-websites-youve-probably-never-heard-of/
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Google introduced standalone apps for Google Docs and Google Sheets to both Google Play and the iOS App Store on Wednesday. Eventually, Google Drive users will be prompted to download the new apps.
http://gigaom.com/2014/04/30/google-introduces-standalone-apps-for-docs-and-spreadsheets/
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Learn about the pedagogy of technology, a pedagogy that encourages technology as a means of educating children rather than an interference to their learning.
http://www.fractuslearning.com/2014/04/28/technology-interfere-teaching/…
Les Perelman, with the help of students at MIT and Harvard, created the Babel Generator, a software program that generates meaningless essays to test the mettle of machine graders.
http://chronicle.com/article/Writing-Instructor-Skeptical/146211/…
Students do worse on quizzes when they use keyboards in class.
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Reading is human-technology interaction,” says literacy professor Anne Mangen of Norway’s University of Stavenger. “Perhaps the tactility and physical permanence of paper yields a different cognitive and emotional experience.”
http://www.wired.com/2014/05/reading-on-screen-versus-paper/
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Desktop computers aren’t just antiquated behemoths quietly gathering dust in your parent’s house. They also offer an often overlooked processing resource for mobile users and a viable alternative to cloud-based storage. All you need is a means of accessing it …
You can easily mirror your iPad screen to a projector and let students see what you see on your iPad. This can be used when sharing tutorials, presentations, illustrations and several other learning tasks. How to do it is what …
Present on desktop & mobile and projector screens at the same time. Super simple to use: no accounts, no costs and no hassle.
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This list is chock-full of tons of different apps that can fill out just about every category of Bloom’s Taxonomy. It includes the name of the tool, what level of Bloom’s Taxonomy it addresses, where you can find it, what …
These are the best TED Talks for any educator because they make us laugh, warm our hearts, break down barriers, and always inspire us to dig a little deeper and push a little harder, challenging your educator perspective.
http://www.teachthought.com/learning/50-inspiring-ted-talks-teachers-challenge-eduspective/
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They range in purpose but are altogether a solid bunch of characters you should consider trying out and perhaps adding to your personal or classroom computer. Best of all, they’re free and all are pretty popular so they’re well maintained …
Skype’s group video call feature is now free for all users. The company introduced group video calls in 2010, supporting group video chats for up to 10 users at once. The feature was free for a few months during a …