DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
If you’re interested in learning something new, this article is for you. Broken down by subject and/or category, here are several top-notch self-education resources I have bookmarked online over the past few years.
http://themindunleashed.org/2014/07/12-dozen-places-educate-online-free.html
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Has this happened to you? You spend hours rewriting an old lesson plan, incorporating rich, adventurous tools available on the Internet. You test it the evening before, several times, just to be sure. Learn how to deal with failures in …
Free tools or websites that teachers can create or share quizzes and polls.
http://list.ly/list/L7-teacher-tools-for-creating-quizzes-or-polls
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Just-In-Time Learning is a simple concept: learn exactly what you need to know exactly when you need to know it, and apply it immediately.
http://munat.svbtle.com/justintime-learning-1
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Collaboration can take many forms in an educational context and you may want to consider different tools depending on your specific objectives. Here’s a list of some common collaborative activities and the tools and apps you might want to consider …
Most of us know you should read something out loud when proofreading, but we may miss critical errors. We insert words we think are there, but aren’t, because we wrote it. Using the text-to-speech function on your device will help …
South Korea and Finland are hailed internationally for their extremely high educational outcomes. What can other countries learn from these two successful, but diametrically opposed, educational models? Here’s an overview of what South Korea and Finland are doing right.
http://ideas.ted.com/2014/09/04/what-the-best-education-systems-are-doing-right/…
Here are five common myths about student online privacy that cause more harm than good.
http://www.iste.org/explore/articleDetail?articleid=141
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Online Audio Extractor is a handy software for audio extracting. It can help you to extract sound streams from your favorite videos and save them as OGG, MP3, Wave or FLAC files.
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Imagine sending a drone to take pictures above your neighborhood, then compiling those photos into an extremely high-resolution, local map. A new piece of software, combined with improved drone technology, means this kind of arrangement is already cheaper than you …
How do you coordinate knowledge, instructional practices, and technologies in order to positively influence academic achievement?
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/integrate-tech-keeps-changing-todd-finley
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If you haven’t tried out Autodesk’s fabulous Pixlr, a capable photo editor in the browser, you should. It’s good. And now, it’s available as a free desktop program for Mac and Windows.
http://gizmodo.com/so-long-photoshop-pixlr-is-finally-available-on-the-d-1628360391
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Florida Polytechnic University’s enormous facility promises to make many more books available for the students’ in digital form.
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