DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
What about the use of digital textbooks, adaptive learning, collaboration with other schools or flipped classrooms? These technologies represent some of the cutting edge tools and trends in education. While some are being implemented now, regular use of others …
Web pages change or may even disappear with time. There are quite a few ways to save web pages permanently and your choice of the tool will depend on the kind of web content that you are trying to …
“Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.” Now, while that sounds like something a back-to-basics, …
Docs.com is Microsoft’s newest sharing platform. It was released at Aug 4, 2015. This new platform allows users to easily share documents regardless of whether they areWord, PowerPoint, Excel, PDF with importing available from your PC or even through …
MoodleCloud enables an individual who does not know how to install Moodle themselves, or does not have the money to spare, to get a small Moodle site that they can test out with their training group or class.
http://www.somerandomthoughts.com/blog/2015/07/07/5-things-to-know-about-moodlecloud/…
An important part of an effective integration of technology in your instruction besides knowing the ‘pedagogical whys’ behind the tech choices you make is finding out the appropriate web tools to enhance your teaching. And this is where curated lists …
There’s no one plan you have to follow to properly backup your data, but there are tools you can use to get everything secured. We’ve laid out a few of them below, highlighting our personal recommendations for each category …
Teaching students how to conduct smart search queries online is an important part of cultivating a digital citizenship culture within your classroom. We are sharing with you this collection of video tutorials from Google Help featuring some essential Google …
TED-Ed asked a few of our favorite educators to weigh in on the best books in their subject — for students, teachers and lifelong learners alike — to crack into during 2015. Here, find a list of their top …
No single approach is going to completely solve Canada’s skills training gap, but continuing education can play a huge role in easing the burden for both employers and employees. Continuing education providers must deliver strong professional development opportunities to …
Despite the apparent benefits of paper, Mangen and other reading researchers caution the screen-reading vs. traditional reading question has nuances that scientists have yet to fully understand. http://www.fastcodesign.com/3048297/evidence/everything-science-knows-about-reading-on-screens…
Thanks to Kalev Leetaru, a Yahoo! Fellow in Residence at Georgetown University, you can now head over to a new collection at Flickr and search through an archive of 2.6 million public domain images, all extracted from books, magazines …
It offers a mobile app (currently Android, with iOS to follow soon) that promises to monitor an array of online accounts for suspicious login or attempted login activity.