DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
Students benefit when we create lessons where they can interact with the content. What makes a lesson truly interactive? And how can we leverage the tools we have available to make our lessons more interactive.
http://www.edtechupdate.com/edition/daily-differentiated-instruction-edtech-2018-11-09…
Here are six ideas to help you use Google Photos to document learning in your classroom and help students create wonderful multimedia projects.
https://electriceducator.blogspot.com/2018/06/six-ways-to-use-google-photos-in.html…
JoeZoo is a free Google Docs Add-on that teachers can use to add voice and text comments to a students’ paper. But that alone is not what makes it great. What makes JoeZoo stand out from the crowd is the …
What if schools could offer teachers both shared professional learning experiences and personalized learning opportunities?
Edji is a unique, collaborative annotation tool that works on any device. Students and teachers can highlight portions of text and leave either emoji comments or text comments. They can also place a hotspot on a picture and leave a …
Here’s the outline of how you can use Google Slides and screencasting to create a captioned flipped lesson.
https://practicaledtech.com/2018/11/04/how-to-create-captioned-flipped-video-lessons/…
Business students at Imperial College London are set to be offered lectures led by “holographic professors” in a world first. The holograms are able to engage with students in real-time, responding to reactions and taking questions via a camera link …
It is not just about sharing information but also creating a better online presentation by avoiding the need to write manually.
Machine learning algorithms do precisely what they are taught to do and are only as good as their mathematical construction and the data they are trained on. Algorithms that are biased will end up doing things that reflect that bias. …
Dropbox has a new feature it hopes will make getting work done from within its cloud storage product even easier. Called Extensions, these third-party software plug-ins will let you perform basic tasks you’d normally need to launch a separate app …
The Learning Designer helps teachers plan a sequence of learning and teaching activities to engage their students both in and beyond the classroom.
https://www.bera.ac.uk/blog/a-new-tool-to-help-teachers-as-digital-learning-designers…
From adding music to a slideshow to adding sound effects to videos to bumper music for podcasts, there are plenty of classroom projects that require free audio files. If you find yourself or your students in need of some free …
The Rebus Guide to Publishing Open Textbooks (So Far) is a living repository of collective knowledge, written to equip all those who want to publish open textbooks with the resources they need.
https://press.rebus.community/the-rebus-guide-to-publishing-open-textbooks/…