DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
In this session we’ll explore great tools to provide feedback to students that is more detailed, engaging, & personal, including Google Docs text comments, voice comments with Read&Write, video feedback with Screencastify, & natural handwriting feedback with the Google …
This is a five-step guide for faculty, and those who support faculty, who want to modify an open textbook. Step-by-step instructions for importing and editing common open textbook file and platform types are included.
For the last 5 months, I have been privileged to be a BETA tester for the NEW Google Sites … here are some personal reflections as Google launches it to the public.
http://www.teachercast.net/2016/11/13/google-sites-reflection/…
Listenwise makes it easy to bring authentic voices and compelling non-fiction stories to the classroom. We curate the best of public radio to keep teaching connected to the real world and build student listening skills at the same time.…
The Emotion Journal is a voice journaling app that performs real-time emotional analysis to detect the user’s feelings and chart their emotional state over time.
https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/04/emotion-journal-london-hackathon/…
Young news consumers have trouble distinguishing credible sources from unreliable ones, according to a new report.
http://www.futurity.org/fake-news-literacy-young-people-1303892-2/…
If you use an iPad (or, less likely, an iPhone) for business presentations, you may well have run into storage issues because it’s already full of music or other files. If so, it’s worth looking at this neat accessory …
Instead of ranking each of the fifty tools on this list in order, I have them organized into three general groups: Useful, Good, and Excellent. The “Excellent” tools are added to the “All-Time” list mentioned previously. Here are my …
Digital classroom and/or paperless classroom is a relatively new concept that revolves around the exclusive use of digital tools and web technologies to not only replace traditional pen and paper ways of teaching and learning but, more importantly, transform …
From class-based hashtags to office hours, more educators are getting the most out of 140 characters.
http://www.edtechmagazine.com/higher/article/2016/08/3-ways-college-professors-use-twitter…
A two-year study by researchers at the Brain and Creativity Institute (BCI) at the University of Southern California shows that exposure to music and music instruction accelerates the brain development of young children in the areas responsible for language …
EduOpen is a new Italian MOOC provider that launched earlier this year in April 2016. Class Central spoke with Prof. Tommaso Minerva from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy) to learn more about EduOpen.
https://www.class-central.com/report/eduopen-italian-mooc-provider/…
With all these tools to choose from, how can you stay on top of the latest and greatest? Keep reading to see the full list with all of 2017’s best social media tools.