DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
Discovery Education is a great resource for educators, with assessment tools, streaming videos, TechBooks (online, interactive “textbooks”) and much more. This is a list of 25 (and some bonus) free resources for educators from Discovery Education.
http://www.techlearning.com/Default.aspx?tabid=67&EntryId=3305…
Great high-definition camcorders are expensive, but excellent video-editing software doesn’t have to be. Here’s how to use free software to give your videos a professional look.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/241855/how_to_edit_video_on_the_cheap.html#tk.nl_hox_h_cbstories…
In survey, 16% of school tech directors expect to have 1 tablet per student within 5 years.
When you search for images online, often a wide variety of results are displayed. This makes finding the image you want more difficult. Here to help you simplify matters is a web service called PicsLikeThat.
http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/picslikethat-narrow-image-searches-finding-pictures-similar/…
The rapid changes in technology over the last 75 years have created enormous opportunities for education. But the ways in which rapid advances in technology are adopted have both positive and negative implications for schools and for broader society in …
Those without strong online social networks will be left out of the digital conversation, educator and consultant Angela Maiers argues.
http://www.eschoolnews.com/2011/10/27/social-media-savvy-the-new-digital-divide/…
The Teacher Wall is a virtual town hall that gives teachers an opportunity to talk about the things that are most important to them–from challenges to “A-ha! moments.”
http://teacherleaders.typepad.com/get_in_the_fracas/2011/10/teacher-wall.html…
One of the challenges facing Patricia Murphy, a Dawson College teacher, is how to make student feedback explicit – both to herself and amongst her students. Wordle struck her as a great tool to capture the collective voice of students …
An analysis on the implementation of technology in the classrooms.
http://spotlight.macfound.org/blog/entry/classrooms-of-the-future-are-here-but-results-are-not/…
Video documentaries are a wonderfully informative way to learn about topics you are unfamiliar with. While numerous websites offer free documentaries, very few offer free legal documentaries that are relevant to current global topics. Documentary.Net is one of these few …
One of the more unfortunate buzzwords to appear in online education circles and the press is “flipping the classroom”. This means that instead of lecturing students in lessons in school, the teacher records the lecture as a video and uploads …
A series of two presentations made by Gavin Henrick, a Moodle expert, on the advantages of migrating from Moodle 1.9 to Moodle 2.
Part 1: http://www.slideshare.net/ghenrick/10-reasons-to-move-to-moodle2-from-moodle-19-part1
Part 2: http://www.slideshare.net/ghenrick/10-reasons-to-move-to-moodle2-from-moodle-19-part2…
János Varga, a teacher from John Abbott College explains how cloud-based blended synchronous/asynchronous shared documents promote collaboration and active learning among students.
http://www.profweb.qc.ca/en/publications/reports/a-venir/the-issue/index.html…