DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
There are many tools for quickly gathering informal feedback from students. Here are twelve tools that you can use to quickly gather informal feedback from students.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2012/06/12-tools-for-quickly-gathering-informal.html…
Your school should be preparing to incorporate tablets into campus life and the classroom. Below we offer some data and opinions on what college student tablet use looks like and what it means for your campus.
http://doteduguru.com/id8265-how-tablets-will-change-higher-ed.html…
A compilation of the best iPad apps of 2012 by The Next Web website.
http://thenextweb.com/apps/2012/06/29/the-best-ipad-apps-of-2012-so-far/…
A list of some great services that you can use with YouTube to drive away the distraction that surrounds YouTube videos particularly inappropriate ads, vulgar language included in the comments section, and indecent pictures and might be displayed in the …
Evernote is a web tool that allows users to bookmark, record voicemails, take text and voice notes, upload pictures, docs, PDFs and files, and capture images and information on the web as well as as a software download on your …
Here’s a look at the simplest method of transferring files to an iDevice for those who don’t yet know how to do it.
http://lifehacker.com/5806075/how-to-transfer-files-to-your-iphone-or-ipad-for-beginners…
The virtual teacher has arrived —thanks to digital media like video-on-demand broadcasts, or VODcasts, lectures that students would normally receive in the classroom are migrating outside of brick and mortar schools.
Cue feeds on e-mail and social-networking accounts to highlight important events and update contacts automatically.
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/428321/a-personal-assistant-mines-your-life-to-help-out/…
Let’s take a look at what many consider the top three 21st century skills and how games can teach and assess them.
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/game-learning-21st-century-skills-andrew-miller…
Though educators are finding smart ways to integrate technology and learning, the road has been and continues to be challenging on multiple fronts.
http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/06/six-lingering-obstacles-to-using-technology-in-schools/…
A great list of resources to prevent and detect plagiarism.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2012/06/8-resources-for-preventing-and.html…
There are boatloads of tools out there that can give you a private social network. From Edmodo to the upcoming Facebook Groups For Schools, there’s plenty of options. Most are free, but some are better than others. So we decided …
Evaluating the use of technology in a classroom environment is not something most administrators are trained to do. It is easy to walk into a classroom and see that every student is using a computer, but how do you really …