DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
Gartner research analysts recently convened to discuss the changing nature of work and table some predictions for the coming decade.
If you enjoy maps too, you should check out a blog titled The Map Room that I recently discovered. The Map Room is a blog about all things maps. You’ll find a variety of creative uses of maps in The
Everyone who has a Google account should visit their Dashboard once a year. It’s like Google’s way of showing you their hand—let you see what info they have on you—and allow you to change it.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/11/what-google-knows-about-you-and-how-to-tweak-it.ars
More than half a million US college students now use wireless devices to register class attendance and take quizzes.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/16/education/16clickers.html?_r=1&emc=eta1
http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2010/11/17/the-best-web-2-0-applications-for-education-2010/
This post gives an introduction to some of the new integrations which can be used, how they work, and why you should care – and remember, you don’t need to be a software developer to make these integrations work, you
Google launched a new community on YouTube for Google Docs users to share tips and ideas for using Google Docs in education and other arenas. The community features how-to videos created by Google and by Google Docs users just like
Google is trying to save users from the back-click button, by giving them the option to see a visual preview of the page they are thinking of clicking on.
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/11/google-instant-previews/
Worldometers is part of the Real Time Statistics Project, which is managed by an international team of developers, researchers, and volunteers with the goal of making world statistics available in a thought-provoking and time relevant format to a wide audience
Your computer’s hard drive is its only form of long-term storage. Music, photos, documents, games – it all goes on your hard drive. If you’re running out of hard drive space it’s only a matter of time before you need
An interesting article on why teachers should consider using Twitter.
http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2010/09/five-reasons-innovative-educator-uses.html
If you have ever tried editing a page on Wikipedia or any other Wiki based website, you know how different the formatting syntax is – more so when you are used to working with rich-text editors like Microsoft Word or