DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
Facebook Campus is a college-only space designed to help students connect with fellow classmates over shared interests. Facebook Campus makes it easy to find and start conversations within your college community.
https://about.fb.com/news/2020/09/introducing-facebook-campus/…
In these times of physical distancing, are you suffering from “Zoom Fatigue”? Has the abundance of video conferences on your schedule led you to put yourself in the shoes of your students and ask yourself how they experienced a complete, …
This documentary from Jeff Orlowski explores how addiction and privacy breaches are features, not bugs, of social media platforms.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/09/movies/the-social-dilemma-review.html…
In today’s post we are sharing with you what we believe are four of the basic distance learning skills you as a teacher (and student) should master in order to optimize your remote teaching experience.
https://www.educatorstechnology.com/2020/09/4-important-skills-for-distance.html…
As a researcher who studies behavior and the brain, I have found the evidence suggests that online instruction can pose a range of challenges for students if they are required to keep their cameras on during class. Here are five …
Whiteboard Chat is a free service that you can use to create collaborative whiteboards to use with your students. It is possible to use Whiteboard Chat without an email address which makes it quick and easy to get started.
https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2020/09/whiteboard-chat-online-whiteboards-you.html…
I thought I’d miss everything I love most about my work, but what happened was not what I’d expected.
I have volunteered to be a guest speaker in classes this Fall. It’s really the least I can do to help teachers and students through another tough term. I spoke tonight in Dorothy Kim’s class “Race Before Race: Premodern Critical …
Microsoft has developed a deepfakes detection tool to help news publishers and political campaigns, as well as technology to help content creators “mark” their images and videos in a way that will show if the content has been manipulated post-creation.…
Narakeet is a service called Video Puppet that turns PowerPoint presentations into narrated videos. The new features include greater control over the voice-over. You can now have multiple voice-over voices in your video and you can now control pauses in …
On May 1, 2020 the Adaptech Research Network held two Artificial Intelligence Advisory Board meetings via Zoom. Participants from Canada, Germany, Israel, the United Kingdom, and the USA shared AI-related apps and devices as well as projects and articles. The …
In an online course, many students may experience a sense of anonymity. How do you encourage them to participate, to interact?
AppSheet is a platform that allows you to easily create various types of mobile apps without the need for any coding knowledge. As a teacher, you can use this service to design apps to help you enhance your teaching and …
What will distinguish an online MIT education from OpenCourseWare or an MIT MOOC micro-master’s degree in a way that will justify a substantial price premium.
https://eliterate.us/online-learning-student-experience-is-the-new-climbing-wall/…
TeacherMade is a new tool that lets you tick both of those boxes. With TeacherMade you can quickly and easily convert some of your favorite “old standby” activities into online activities to share with your students.
https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2020/09/teachermade-quickly-create-share.html
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