DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
The Google Docs collection provides a streamlined, collaborative solution to writing papers, organizing presentations and putting together spreadsheets and reports. But besides the basic features, there are lots of little tricks and hacks you can use to make your …
With firms such as Google, Microsoft, Apple and Dropbox offering gigabytes or even terabytes of online storage, sticking everything in the cloud is an appealing idea. But is it wise to put your important data in the cloud? Here …
In this article, we’ll show you how easy it is to download just the audio file from any streaming video and save it to your hard drive for offline listening.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2852325/how-to-download-audio-from-any-streaming-video.html…
Gamification in education is a fun way to involve and engage students in their studies. Not just students, gamification is education offers many good things to everyone. Check out the list of amazing videos about gamification and use of …
So one is easier and much less time consuming, and one seems to improve the ability to “retain” information and be able to share it back. So which one is better for learning?
The tools below were chosen because they all offer something just a little bit different and can be a great way to add some variety to how you conduct your online assessments. All of them are free at the …
Imagine if you could take 1,000 words a and help people digest that information in only a few seconds? An infographic, put simply, is a creative way to take a “thousand words” and depict them using a picture. These …
Just a few short years after promising higher education for anyone with an Internet connection, MOOCs have scaled back their ambitions, content to become job training for the tech sector and for students who already have college degrees
Elliot-Kelly is on a journey to change the way that education is delivered in the classroom. What is the role of the teacher within that though?
https://www.hottopics.ht/stories/education/how-tech-will-affect-the-teachers-role-in-education/…
Great tips for better using Google Docs.
http://www.teachthought.com/technology/10-back-to-school-tips-for-teachers-using-google-docs/…
Using these 6 tips, you can utilize the full feature set that Google Calendar has to offer. Making a separate calendar for a conference room or embedding a video call in an event invite can drastically increase efficiency and …
What about the use of digital textbooks, adaptive learning, collaboration with other schools or flipped classrooms? These technologies represent some of the cutting edge tools and trends in education. While some are being implemented now, regular use of others …
Web pages change or may even disappear with time. There are quite a few ways to save web pages permanently and your choice of the tool will depend on the kind of web content that you are trying to …