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 free, mostly-OER platform, Amazon Inspire works like a search engine for educational videos, lesson plans and games. Users can search by criteria like topics, standards, grade level, and time to complete. Additionally, they can rate materials with 1 …
The point is that there’s nothing predetermined about general AI when so much of our current research efforts are being poured into very specific branches of the field — buckets of knowledge that do more to facilitate the use of …
Youcanbook.me can help you get organised and put an end to the long exchange of emails or MIOs trying to find a date and time for appointments. Everyone can benefit from using this tool – teachers, education advisors, student …
Kiddom allows teachers to assign work that is best suited to each student’s learning style and tracks student progress, all in one place.
To help non-technical students get started, Bizness Apps, a DIY app development platform, has been giving free access to any student with a .edu account. In the first few months about 30,000 students have registered for the platform, and …
The list was launched by the World Innovation Summit for Education (Wise) and EdTechXGlobal, which organises the conference, EdTechXEurope, in a bid to honor the individuals’ work in the field of educational technology.
https://www.tes.com/us/news/breaking-news/whos-who-edtech-top-50-names-global-innovation…
Interactive media platform ThingLink has launched a virtual reality content app called VR Lessons. The app is designed for elementary school students, their teachers and parents.
http://www.eschoolnews.com/2016/05/02/new-app-links-students-to-virtual-reality-lessons/…
Technology has made collaboration possible in ways far beyond our imaginations in the 20th century, and done so in ways that are often highly affordable.
http://www.livetiles.nyc/blog/4-fascinating-trends-education-technology/…
We believe user interfaces have been pivotal to some of the world’s most important innovations. And since the line between an “interface” and an “invention” can be quite fuzzy, we thought we’d explore that line – and take a …
Google has announced its own tool to help you measure your website’s speed and mobile-friendliness. The site takes your URL and measures on a scale of 1-100 your mobile design and loading speed. It looks at things like CSS, …
Some of the things you can do with these apps include: highlight extended chunks of text, share your highlighted text with others, initiate discussions around highlighted text, add notes on a webpage, archive and bookmark pages and many more.
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2016/06/4-powerful-tools-to-annotate-webpages.html…
Use VideoAnt to add annotations, or comments, to web-hosted videos. Export your annotations in a variety of data formats. You can even embed your Ants on a personal website, learning management system (like Moodle), or anywhere HTML is allowed.…