DawsonITE
DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
Ubuntu clearly rivals Windows 7 in terms of stability, speed, and functionality. Yet school IT staff who try to take advantage of this free software often meet with serious resistance.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/education/why-isnt-ubuntu-good-enough-for-us-classrooms/4055
…Google’s encrypted search now has a new home, making it easy for school admins to block it, while ensuring access to Google Apps for Education.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/education/google-solves-encrypted-search-issues-for-schools/4062
…I think there’s a big difference between allowing the use of social media and requiring it. That difference probably explains the ambivalence of students in Brian Croxall’s courses, and he had them bouncing from wikis to Twitter to Wave. You …
This is huge news. Take a scanned document and convert it via OCR technologies to editable text via Google Docs. All for free!
http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/06/optical-character-recognition-ocr-in.html
…Bounce is a neat application that not only allows you to make annotated screen captures of websites but also allows you to instantly share those screen captures with others. Bounce could be a good tool for sharing comments about design …
Colorado and Iowa are joining the movement. After Oregon, Google Apps for Education will now be available to more than 3,000 schools across the two states. These state-wide agreements enable schools and districts to benefit from centralized resources such as …
The quantity of good, educational content on YouTube is far greater than the quantity available on any other site. If you work in a school that blocks YouTube, there are still ways that you can use YouTube content in your …
Those of us who spend a lot of time online have a slightly different vocabulary than the rest of the world. We use words like blog, webinar, and meme on a daily basis (and actually know what they mean). There …
Real-time search engines draw their results from popular social media services like Delicious, Twitter, Facebook, and Flickr. What makes real-time search results different from standard search results is that the most current links are given priority over older links. Real-time …
Animated Explanations is a website for finding animated explanations of topics and concepts in the fields of health, technology, and work. The animations can be embedded in your blog or website.
…There is a new website called PilotHandwriting that allows you to create a font out of your own handwriting and send emails (or letters as they call them) with it.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/create-a-font-from-your-own-handwriting-and-use-it-to-send-emails/
…Cooliris is one of the most popular 3D photo gallery solutions online. Damien shared how using Cooliris can enhance the photo browsing experience on the iPhone, and Jackson covered the desktop version of Cooliris in some detail. Since then, Cooliris …
Presentations can often be boring, uninteresting, unimaginative, dull [insert your own negative description based on the presentations you’ve wished you had missed here] but that is not always the fault of the speaker. In this article the author, Daniel McMillan, …
If you want to record Skype video calls and you don’t mind paying, you have many options. If you don’t want to pay, however, there is one program which jumps out as the leader – Vodburner.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/record-skype-video-calls-free-vodburner/
…YouTube has a new video editor that lets you create videos using excerpts from the videos you’ve already uploaded. You can also add a music file from the AudioSwap library, but YouTube mentions that it might display ads if you …