DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
Following up on a commitment made at the time it acquired the two companies, Blackboard has announced that Collaborate, its new collaborative learning suite that taps into technology from Elluminate and Wimba, will work with competing learning management systems.
The ways we search for information online are constantly evolving. One of the most interesting (comparatively) new methods currently being developed by companies around the web revolves around the idea of using images as a basis for search queries.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/search-similar-images-online-images-keywords/
This is a listing of 50 free online courses that are offered on a wide variety of instructional technology topics. The courses are free, self-directed, and accessible over the internet.
So what are the best ways to use Twitter? How you can use it most effectively? Which tools are most helpful? You’ll find the answers to these questions and many more here in 50 of the best Twitter tools, posts,
Schools are using the latest learning platforms to harness pupils’ appetite for social networks, making learning more engaging and fun in class and at home.
Google has just released a developer preview of a new image format called WebP. WebP promises to significantly reduce the byte size of photos on the web, allowing websites to load much faster.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/introducing-googles-webp-faster-web-alternative-jpeg-news/
Can the wildly popular social network be used constructively in the classroom? This student’s story says it can.
http://www.emergingedtech.com/2010/08/facebook-as-an-instructional-technology-tool/
A new generation of scholars is trying to come to new understandings of how technology and society shape each other. Christina Dunbar-Hester is among those young lions from her position at Rutgers School of Communication & Information. Here, she walks
Some very interesting ideas to use Google Maps and Google Earth with your students.
http://olliebray.typepad.com/olliebraycom/2007/11/ten-ideas-for-u.html
There are lots of ways to create a social network that involve scripts and paid hosting, and all sorts of settings that you have to get right before you can get your network up and running. If you’re looking for
There is no shortage of fonts that you can use to compose a document or email. But these fonts are the designs of a developer you do not know. To make your documents, letters, and emails more personal, you can
Digital sound effects can help computer users in various ways. For example if you are creating a presentation, a slide show, or editing a scene in a movie, you could add a digital sound to fully achieve the desired effect.
An interesting article by George Siemens (Athabasca University) on the new web.
Google Maps Street View is a great tool for showing students what various towns and cities around the world look like. Last week, Google announced that Street View imagery is now available for locations on all seven continents.