DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
PDFs can be very large, especially if they contain high-resolution images of scanned documents or other graphics. You may need to compress a PDF file to email or upload it somewhere. Learn a few tricks to do that!
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/compress-pdfs-reduce-file-size-free-windows-tools-tricks/
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Microsoft released a Mac version of its cloud-based note taking platform OneNote, Monday. The company also announced it would be offering both Mac and Windows versions of the software to users for free.
http://mashable.com/2014/03/17/microsoft-onenote-for-mac/
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Last week, Google juiced up its word processor with a new feature called Add-ons: extra tools meant to make your writing process smoother. Join me as we tour the best of these new gifts for Google Docs.
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/supercharge-your-google-docs-with-these-six-helpful-new-79872542135.html
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Microsoft will announce the long-awaited Office for iPad on March 27 at an event in San Francisco. The new release would follow Office for iPhone and Office for Android. The applications will require an Office 365 subscription to work.
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/03/office-for-ipad-may-finally-arrive-as-soon-as-march-27/…
Even if you’ve never embarrassed yourself by unknowingly spreading an urban legend as fact to friends and family, you’ve at least been on the receiving end of one of these misinformed messages. Next time an email, tweet, or link seems …
What do you get if you combine WiFi technology with SD card storage? You get a wireless SD card, obviously. But what benefit does that actually offer, and if you’re in the market for one then what should you be …
The hour long webinar covers modules, tips, tricks and suggestions to help your Moodle course become more engaging for learners of all ages.
In an increasingly connected and digital world, the things a student needs to know are indeed changing. Technology is again changing the kind of “stuff” a student needs to know. Of course, these are just starters. Such a list really …
It links your smartphone to a PC or Mac via a website. And, using that website, you can send and receive standard texts with phones, regardless of what cellular network they are on, what operating system they use, or whether …
Two-factor authentication is one of the easiest ways you can dramatically boost security on your online accounts. But which sites actually support it? Fortunately, a new, community-driven list keeps a running list of all the big sites that have some …
Kunerango is a platform for instructors to create branded online schools where they can sell courses, reckons there’s room for not-so-massive alternatives.
http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/05/kunerango/
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If you’ve scratched your head over suggestions to manage your “digital footprint,” you aren’t the only one. A surprisingly large percentage of people have never even heard the phrase. We’ll talk about ways you can help students understand and manage …
Where can you get a list of every ad that you have clicked on Google? Where should you go if you don’t remember your administrator password? What are your interests as determined by Google? Here are 10 important links that …