DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
Creating Interactive Maps and impressive visualizations for presentations is something that many presenters may wonder how-to in order to impress the audience.
http://www.free-power-point-templates.com/articles/make-interactive-maps-with-statsilk-software/…
Here is a wrap-up of this week ‘s educational web 2.0 tools we have discovered in several other blogs and websites and because of our time constraints we could not review them in single posts.
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2012/09/8-great-new-educational-web-tools-for.html…
Here are a few disruptive things happening right now that will changed education as we know it.
http://edudemic.com/2012/08/education-technology-disruption/
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Androids, iPhones, and the like might be pricy, but they definitely pay off. Read on to check out our picks for the very best smartphone apps that can help students this back-to-school season.
http://edudemic.com/2012/08/smartphone-apps-students-will-be-using-next-month/…
A tool that evaluates students’ writing submissions by comparing the paper’s content to a predetermined answer outline designed by the instructor or professor.
See the perspectives on the planning and development of a large scale open course, what challenges the MOOC presents for delivering a worthwhile educational experience, and what questions this type of course format provokes for a team already teaching and …
Dropbox just announced the beta version of its two-step authentication yesterday, but it’s now available for everyone.
When I wrote about the launch of online education startup Coursera back in April, one of the things that most intrigued me most was the description that founders Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng gave of their plans for a peer-to-peer …
From apps to gadgets, here are some must-haves for educators.
http://thejournal.com/articles/2012/08/27/must-have-apps-and-gadgets-from-fetc-tech-shootout.aspx…
Over the last couple of weeks, Educational Technology and Mobile Learning has been working diligently to compile lists of free resources and websites pertaining to different subject matter. Check out the resources below.
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2012/08/10-awesome-free-social-studies.html…
How can I tell if Peer Instruction is really working? As a beginning instructor, I was skeptical of teaching approaches that seemed to delegate teaching responsibilities to the student.
See why Twitter could be a valuable tool for your classes.
https://www.teachthought.com/technology/10-reasons-twitter-works-in-education/…
Technology, once a distraction for students, is finding its way into classrooms in a way that is more seamless than ever.