DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
We’ve all heard about Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Some teachers out there may have heard of the 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teachers. Below are our 7 habits of highly effective teachers who use technology:
http://blog.alwaysprepped.com/the-7-habits-of-highly-effective-teachers-who-use-technology/…
Dropbox is a simple service, but you may not realize there are several ways to amp up the user experience. Check out some useful ways you can get more out of Dropbox.
In the below infographic from Online Universities, you can see how each online course provider differs, what they currently offer, and even find out what they’ll cost you. Whether you’re a teacher, student, parent, or simply a lifelong learner … …
Youblisher is an excellent publishing platform for teachers and students. It provides a wonderful visual method for users to easily upload their PDFs and turn them into online magazines with page turning effects. As a teacher, you can use this …
The new iPad Mini and the iBooks Author are a great duo for Education.
A great article on learning on the digital age by Stephen Downes.
http://halfanhour.blogspot.ca/2012/10/learning-in-digital-age-reality-and-myth.html
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Using the Chrome Remote Desktop App you can grant access to your computer to another person who also has the Chrome Remote Desktop App installed. If you want to share your desktop just click “share now” and Chrome Remote Desktop …
The new Google FieldTrip app probes the question: What digital information do you want to see overlaid on the physical world?
Not only can educators and students use Google as a search engine, they can also utilize valuable educational resources. In fact, Google has an entire network dedicated to education – Google in Education. For the purpose of this article, we’ll …
A good list on timeline creation tools by Richard Byrne.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2012/10/six-multimedia-timeline-creation-tools.html…
Learn how to set up Dropbox as an external repository for your Moodle files.
http://www.somerandomthoughts.com/blog/2012/10/23/using-dropbox-repository-with-moodle/…
A great list of resources to learn how to program online and for free!
The Bring-Your-Own-Device trend makes sense. It’s cost-effective and lets students use the device they already know and love. While it may present some problems for your school or district’s IT department, it’s a great start to bringing in web 2.0 …