DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
You might not expect it, but when it comes to social media even the Pope is switched on. A new decree from The Vatican encourages Catholic priests to start blogs and embrace the web.
http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2010/01/24/pope-tells-priests-start-blogging/…
Over the weekend I stumbled across a great wiki dedicated to the use of VoiceThread in education. The wiki is appropriately titled, How to Make a VoiceThread. On How to Make a VoiceThread you will not only find directions for …
Is there a site that you check often for updates or changes, that just does not offer a feed for their website? Well, if so, Google has a new tool for you.
http://thenextweb.com/apps/2010/01/26/follow-updates-website-feed-feed/…
MOOM, the Museum of Online Museums, is a list of museums that offer online exhibitions. In some cases the museums include virtual tours and in other cases the museums online exhibits are simple photo galleries. Some of the notable museums …
A large number of internet users contribute something to the conversation. This according to a Forrester Social Technographics study. What’s new in this diagram (the original came out three years ago) is the addition of ‘conversationalists’, a class of people …
The Open University (UK) will be using Google tools to support student internet services. “In our first foray into cloud computing, Google will be hosting for our students email (gmail), contacts, instant messaging and presence, calendar, document creation, storage and …
What I like about Wes Fryer’s presentation is that he doesn’t teach, he models. Teachers who understood that what it is that they model, rather than what they say, that gets learned would probably conduct themselves very differently.
http://www.slideshare.net/wfryer/things-i-want-to-model-as-your-teacher…
Prezi, a great service for taking presentations beyond bullets and pictures, has just announced that they’re offering a free education license for teachers and students. The new education license will allow teachers and students to keep their content private. The …
Students are always on the hunt for tools that save their time and trouble, especially on homework. That’s why we’ve generated this list of tips and tricks for using Google Wave, a powerful collaboration tool that lets students manage projects, …
Expectations run high for Apple’s new mobile device, the iPad, which made its formal debut Wednesday. And much of the anticipation is centered around education, both in terms of its usefulness as a computing platform and its potential to usurp …
Thinklinkr is a free service for collaboratively creating outlines. Users can invite collaborators to join into the outlining process at any point in the process. When you’re done creating your outline you can embed it into your blog or website. …
Elearning has grown rapidly in importance for institutions and has been largely facilitated through the “walled garden” of the virtual learning environment. Meanwhile many students are creating their own personal learning environments by combining the various Web 2.0 services they …
SubZin is the search engine to use when you are looking for specific quotes or lines from movies or TV series. All matches are time-based contextualized, and linked with the imdb movie database. Get the exact moment when a word …
They write: “We’re moving from operating as a confidential business project, to an open source, open architecture, open partnership modus operandi. May 2010 be an Open, Social, Connected year for us all!”
http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/sociallearn/2010/01/07/sociallearn-2010/…
Today, Google announced the completion of 54 3D models of the 2010 Winter Olympic venues in Vancouver. You can view these models in Google Earth by selecting in the 3D buildings layer. You can also view and tour the buildings …