DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
Blackboard and Desire2Learn have formally ended their three-and-a-half-year legal dispute, a conflict that was triggered when Blackboard received a hotly disputed patent for electronic learning technologies and proceeded to enforce it through litigation against D2L.
http://thejournal.com/articles/2009/12/15/blackboard-desire2learn-end-dispute.aspx…
This year has been the biggest yet for online video, and for the first time we’re sharing our official Most Watched lists and some of the fastest-rising search terms on YouTube. Some moments were big (President Obama’s inauguration), some small …
People who spend the most time online are in fact the most educated claims a recent report from Eurostat.
http://thenextweb.com/europe/2009/12/16/report-active-online-educated/…
Do you love Google? Would you pay to use their services? They wouldn’t let you, even if you forced the money into Eric Schmidt’s clammy hands.
While the results of this survey by the National Literacy Trust are hardly conclusive, students who engaged in higher levels of social networking tending to consider themselves better writers.
http://www.teach42.com/2009/12/14/does-using-social-media-make-your-writing-gooder/…
Digital Dialects has a large selection of educational games and activities for learning 55 different languages. Most of the games are designed to learn and practice the basics of each of the 55 languages listed on the Digital Dialects homepage.…
MP3 – you keep hearing it all over. You realize that it has something to do with music or that it is an audio file extension. However, there are many audio file formats out there, but nothing as popular as …
With Christmas approaching you might be looking for the perfect gift for the web geek in your life. Maybe you are that web geek and just want inspiration for your list of requests?
Here’s a list of some of the …
Do you have to work on websites that will be viewed on MANY different systems and MANY different browsers? Well then how do you preview a web page on all of these systems? See the answer on the link below:…
Wolfram Alpha is an interesting search engine because of the unique tasks it can perform. Wolfram Alpha has a function that will walk you through the steps of solving an equation. To use this function, enter your equation then click …
Navify is a mashup of Wikipedia, Flickr, and YouTube. Navify attempts to match videos and images to Wikipedia articles. To use Navify, simply enter a search term just as you would on Wikipedia. The results of your search will be …
Nice paper looking at the benefits and negatives of social networking. An interesting negative is ‘social resistance to change’: “Active social networking opens you up to being heavily influenced by others. In a way it subjects you to a new …
The following tools are all free and simple to use. This means there’s no cost, nothing to download, no CDs, no manuals and no training. The best of these also do not require users to have email, registration or log …
We knew it was inevitable, and now it’s here: Google has just launched real-time search integrated into search results pages. Google real-time search updates as stuff is happening around the Web — for example, live tweets, Yahoo Answers, news articles …
Assigning a video creation project can be a great way to get kids excited about your class. When kids are excited about a project they will generally invest more effort into that project. YouTube is offering a free webinar that …