DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
Duo lets you place video calls between Android and iPhone users, and sizably increases the universe of people with whom you can hold a video conversation.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/18/technology/personaltech/google-duo-video-calling-app-facetime.html…
One of the defining feature’s of Google Chrome is the add-ons and extensions which let you fine-tune your browser and allows you to add new features. Let’s have a look at few such Add-ons which makes the Browsing on …
When the patent system was introduced five or six years ago, it reinforced a culture of entrepreneurism, where students expect as much from themselves.
The Superbook brings the keyboard, screen, and battery, your phone provides the muscle.
http://fortune.com/2016/08/14/smartphone-laptop-peripheral/…
What does it mean to be human in a digital age? Some people researching education technology might not spend their days wondering how their work fits into this existential question—but George Siemens isn’t “some people.”
You can avoid displaying related videos by using one of the following free tools. None of these tools will bypass your school’s filter nor will they let you download videos.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2016/08/displaying-youtube-without-distractions.html…
The technology company has unveiled a new personalized learning platform along with Summit Public Schools, a charter school network.
http://edscoop.com/facebook-teaches-schools-a-personalized-lesson…
The Government of Canada has released the Information Technology Strategic Plan, which outlines the key activities to ensure we provide secure, reliable, responsive and innovative IT services that contribute to better programs and services to Canadians. We want to hear …
Requiring longer passwords, known as passphrases, usually 16 to 64 characters long, is increasingly seen as a potential escape route from our painful push toward logins that only a cryptographer could love.
Adobe PDF may be the most popular document format on the web but there’s a reason why eBook lovers prefer the ePub format over PDF. PDF documents have a static layout with fixed page breaks but the layout of …
Do students learn as much when they read digitally as they do in print? With the surge in popularity of e-books, online learning and open educational resources, investigators have been trying to determine whether students do as well when …
Typography is an art and, with thousands of fonts available, it is obviously difficult for non-designers to find that perfect font combination. Need help? Here are some useful font pairing websites where type masters have already done the hard …
Learning analytics are becoming increasingly popular for improving learning and cutting drop-out rates – but critics question the impact on privacy.