DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
With the latest technology, writing is entering a brave new world where traditional problems such as plagiarism will be significantly reduced or even eliminated and writing performance will be enhanced and facilitated.
http://etcjournal.com/2012/05/02/death-of-plagiarism-in-the-21st-century/…
A great list of Moodle tutorials for teachers. Some of the tutorial entries below feature clusters of two or three screencasts to show stages in a process or different options that link more or less naturally.
http://jasonrenshaw.typepad.com/jason_renshaws_web_log/moodle-tutorials-from-english-raven.html…
The University of California Irvine Extension is offering free online webinars to the public for learning mobile app development.
Cloud computing has been universally recognized as a critical component in the field of education. This is more so in the higher education sector where more advanced tools are necessary for data sharing, teaching, and protection, as well as for …
The top twelve education technology blogs are packed full of thoughts from educators, health professionals, and technology experts dedicated to sharing information. These must-read blogs contain valuable insight into the tools and processes for technology in education.
Here are many approaches to adopting new technologies (or any educational tools, for that matter). Thinking about these approaches inspired me to create a possible plan for investing in and integrating new technologies.
http://www.schoolcio.com/article/a-plan-for-technology-integration/52492…
Through edX, the two institutions will collaborate to enhance campus-based teaching and learning and build a global community of online learners.
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/mit-harvard-edx-announcement-050212.html…
Here are seven ways that teachers can use to help students pay more attention when using technology.
http://edudemic.com/2012/05/7-ways-to-keep-students-focused-while-using-technology/…
“Up until now, ‘technology’ has been an authority delivering the lecture which [students] memorized. If there is discussion, it’s mostly about performing for the teacher. Is it possible to make that more of a peer-to-peer activity? Blogs and forums and …
Sharing audio messages with your students on your blog or classroom website is an effective way to maintain communication with them and their parents. Here is a list of some awesome tools that can allow you to easily record a …
We are now more than a decade into the 21st century. However, for all the innovations that new technologies have brought to consumer affairs, business, entertainment, and government, one sector of society—education—remains stubbornly planted in the 20th century.
http://chronicle.com/article/Cloud-Technology-Can-Lift-the/131673/…
With kids as young as five and six immersed in Google’s product suite, which provider do you think they’ll choose when creating personal email accounts later on in life?
http://mashable.com/2012/04/30/generation-growing-up-google/…
Previous heroic massive open online course (MOOC) efforts such as Khan Academy, MITx, and Udacity have been limited by their inability to embrace a full range of the types of courses offered on a traditional campus. Coursera is attempting to …