DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
Quality documentary videos can provide students with useful explanations or demonstrations of concepts. Unfortunately, documentary dvds can be expensive acquisitions for some school departments. Here are five places where you can find and watch documentaries for free online.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2011/10/5-places-to-find-and-watch.html…
Over the weekend, Dave Winer wrote an article at Scripting.com explaining how Facebook keeps track of where you are on the web after logging in without your consent. Nik Cubrilovic dug a little deeper, and discovered that Facebook can still …
There are many paid shareware applications out there which enable users to embed videos in Word. If you have been on the lookout for any free way to embed.
http://www.addictivetips.com/microsoft-office/how-to-embed-youtube-videos-in-word-2010/…
How do you determine what technologies to use in your classroom? Do you have a set of criteria to systematically select the tools? Are they linked to your students‘ characteristics, pedagogy, and learning outcomes?
If you are a cloud virgin, what is the best way to get started and learn more about what the cloud can offer? Here are several suggestions for you!
http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2011/09/7-ways-to-get-started-with-clo.php…
With the ubiquity of cellphones, many schools are facing questions about what to do when students bring cellphones to school. Ban them outright? Require they be kept in a locker or backpack? Require they be turned off? Allow them to …
What’s the next big thing? The Semantic Web is, according to some tech insiders (including Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the Internet), the next big thing on the Internet.
http://www.onlineuniversities.com/blog/2011/09/semantic-web-technology-and-the-future-of-learning/…
Here is a list of predictions Terry Freedman made in 2001 about the classroom of the future. What are your predictions for the next ten years? And is it worth bothering to make such predictions anyway?
Trying to make your photos more interesting? How about achieving similar results by nothing more than point and click? Check out the following sites to add funny, interesting and artistic effects to your photos.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-sites-to-add-amazing-effects-to-your-photos/…
Let’s walk through a few ways to get all of your documents organized and in similar formats so you never have to wonder where they are.
http://lifehacker.com/5843845/how-do-i-organize-my-piles-of-paper-into-something-manageable…
The world’s largest social networking site has become a habit. From sharing links to photo albums, Facebook is a virtual timeline of our lives. Thus, it is the next best thing to a digital diary. Learn how to download all …
An overview of subjects discussed in the last New York Times’ Schools for Tomorrow summit. Among other subjects, panelists addressed challenges with the school system that obstructed progress towards innovations, practical and ideological concerns about using technology in school, and …
Narrate your decisions and your rationale and you will be teaching your students how to make good decisions online and off. Good behavior online is trickle down, after all. Model it, live it, talk about it. It’s all “using” technology.…