DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
A great list of 50 online tools that help you convert not only digital documents but also images and various other media files. Read on to find the tools and see which ones suit your needs best.
http://www.technicallydigital.com/50-online-tools-to-convert-documents-and-media-files/…
Splicd is a handy service that lets users select and share a segment of a YouTube video. This service will be particularly useful for those times that you want to share only a part of a long video.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2011/08/try-splicd-to-share-just-portion-of.html…
A list of great Educational Technology tools. Hopefully some teachers and students will try to incorporate them in the classroom this year.
Many times you find yourself in a predicament, when you know the easiest way to get a file is to use Dropbox, but explaining about Dropbox will just take too long. Or maybe you need to get something into my …
Curation” may be one of the big buzzwords of 2011. As the amount of information accumulates thanks to the Web, it becomes increasingly important that we use tools to help us find information that’s relevant and useful.
http://mindshift.kqed.org/2011/08/how-can-web-2-0-curation-tools-be-used-in-the-classroom/…
A great variety of resources on how to use word clouds in education.
http://livebinders.com/play/play_or_edit?id=3017
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Some of the following tools will have teachers and students exploring wikis, open courseware, Twitter, blogging, comics, videos, and incorporating plenty of other tools that will help make learning fun.
http://www.onlineschools.org/2009/09/24/100-free-tools-to-make-your-teaching-more-entertaining/…
During the recent online seminar Web 2.0 Tools for Lifelong Learning in Online Courses, Prof. Joni Dunlap from CU-Denver, explained how she uses a variety of Web 2.0 tools to help students develop lifelong learning skills.
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50 web tools to help teachers with lesson planning, research and productivity!
http://teachers.net/gazette/wordpress/allison-gray/50-web-apps-for-teachers/…
A great presentation on how to use Google Bookmarks by Richard Byrne.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2011/06/how-to-use-google-bookmarks.html…
There are lots of cool things out there that you can use with your class, but the trick is to choose the ‘right’ cool thing for what you want your students to achieve and to not be seduced by the …
This is a a list of tools particularly targeted at (or very useful) for the primary, junior, middle and secondary school classroom.
With the recent announcement of iCloud, Apple joins Google, Amazon and Microsoft in their aggressive push into cloud computing, in a race to reel customers into their media ecosystems.
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/06/cloud-services-compared/…
As a teacher, you hope you will never need to use these tools, but once in a while a student turns in a writing assignment, which you suspect is not his own. Here is a great list on plagiarism checking …