DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
After monitoring digital trends in student technology and tools for some time, GradeGuru, a McGraw-Hill Education startup has worked out which tools are the most useful for students.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/gradegurus-top-ten-student-tools-2010/…
For the unsuspecting soul who thinks a file downloaded for free is awesome, here is an an opportunity to learn about the digital trapdoors, ways to avoid them and how to verify if it is the real deal before installing …
Legal scholars, technologists and cyberthinkers are wrestling with the first great existential crisis of the digital age: the impossibility of erasing your posted past, starving over, moving on.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/magazine/25privacy-t2.html?_r=4…
In another attempt to bring a usable computer to the masses at an extremely affordable price point, India has developed a touchscreen computing device which will cost only $35. According to a press release by India’s Press Information Bureau, the …
The choice of the right private video sharing website will ultimately boil down to the file size allowed and the ease of sharing with the right kind of privacy features. So try out the five below and let us in …
Facebook has just announced that they now have 500 million active users, a substantial percentage of the world, and far more total users than the US has citizens. Using the most recent world population estimates, 7.4% of all people in …
The polling firm Angus Reid says about 60 per cent of teenagers suffer what they call “hourglass syndrome,” which is feelings of stress because their computers are too slow. Hourglass syndrome was coined because it illustrates the frustrations of people …
The New Zealand government is supporting a Patents Bill which will ban the patenting of software in New Zealand. To clarify, embedded software may be OK, but it appears that patent applications related to pure software will not succeed.
http://thenextweb.com/au/2010/07/17/new-zealand-to-ban-software-patents/…
One of the best reasons to set up a Twitter account is because you have a real reason to share timely information with a real audience. However many innovative educators want more than ideas. They want concrete people, ideas, examples, …
As a educator, probably one of the tougher challenges you face isn’t just keeping up with the technology, but rather understanding how to leverage it in your teaching and learning situation. In this article you’ll learn how to build your …
2010 marks the first year in which Lifeway College in New Zealand has adopted Moodle. The result? Creating the most effective 3D visualization & animation education qualification possible.
http://www.voxy.co.nz/technology/anywhere-anytime-teaching-lifeway-college-adopting-moodle/5/55244…
Stephen Downes comments on this presentation by Steve Wheeler: “Good presentation and let me be the first to name the new web: Web eXtended (or just Web X). Can’t wait for Tim O’Reilly to claim he owns the name now. …
Facebook has drawn more attention as a platform for adolescent meanness and bullying, and as a vehicle for high school and college students to ruthlessly dissect their teachers. But people who are 20, 30 or 40 years beyond graduation are …
Audio Expert is a free online sound editor that helps you to edit audio, convert it from one file format to other, merge different tracks and record sounds. Using this tool, you could quickly crop audio files, merge multiple files, …
While many users of the internet have accepted a passive digital footprint over which they have not taken control, Dean Shareski recently presented at #BLC10 on ideas for managing and manipulating what Google says about us.
http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2010/07/controlling-your-digital-identity-is-as.html…