DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
If you haven’t tried out Autodesk’s fabulous Pixlr, a capable photo editor in the browser, you should. It’s good. And now, it’s available as a free desktop program for Mac and Windows.
http://gizmodo.com/so-long-photoshop-pixlr-is-finally-available-on-the-d-1628360391
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Florida Polytechnic University’s enormous facility promises to make many more books available for the students’ in digital form.
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The company’s new pricing matches similar moves by Google and Microsoft and makes Dropbox Pro one of the cheapest ways to get a terabyte of storage, though still more expensive than Microsoft OneDrive for Business.
http://mashable.com/2014/08/27/dropbox-pro-1-terabyte/
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Google’s products are widespread, so knowing all of them are next to impossible. Here are 10 you might not know that can help your classroom or life.
http://ditchthattextbook.com/2014/09/01/10-great-obscure-google-tricks-for-school-life/
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LiveBinder is your digital binder for all of your online content and learning. The aim of this article is to provide all the information you need to learn how to use Livebinder effectively for yourself and with your students.
Cloud storage bigwig Dropbox just slashed the price of its plans, offering 1TB of storage for $10 per month. And it’s not alone. Over the last year, most of the major players have been cutting prices and upping sizes. So …
Research suggests that recall of plot after using an e-reader is poorer than with traditional books.
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Western Digital’s new My Passport Wireless is designed to be a portable storage drive for all your devices, whether it’s a mobile smartphone or tablet, computer, and even a digital camera.
http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/offload-files-devices-western-digitals-portable-drive-wi-fi/…
The traditional model of teach we’re familiar with is that of the teacher in front of the class, lecturing and assigning homework for students to do once they leave the classroom. The teacher has full control over their learning process. …
Being self-aware about what’s effective learning and how it happens, I think, gives you a real edge in making those choices.
http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/08/how-does-the-brain-learn-best-smart-studying-strategies/
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Surfmark is an online research application that encourages critical thinking and helps students learn how to synthesize and integrate knowledge around topics. It is the most powerful research tool currently available on iPad that also teaches the process of doing …
This list moves through the 6 taxonomy levels with questions for each one. The first three levels are considered lower order questions; the final three levels are considered higher order. Higher order questions are for critical thinking and creative problem …
In the 1800′s, students sat in a classroom, listened to a teacher and took tests. In 2014, students do exactly the same thing, with maybe the addition of a pocket calculator and some slides. Today, we’re going to be talking …