DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
Google Hangouts is Google’s free video-conferencing a. It’s a great way to connect your classroom with other classrooms anywhere in the world. This site will provide teachers with step-by-step directions how to get started on Hangouts.
https://sites.google.com/a/lsr7.net/hangoutsforteachers/
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Earlier this week, The Linux Foundation announced that it would be working with edX, a non-profit online learning site governed by Harvard and MIT, to make its “Introduction to Linux” course free and open to all.
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To help teachers navigate this ever-changing landscape of social media tools, here are some of the best guides on the web for four popular networks — Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest.
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/social-media-resources-educators-matt-davis
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SXSWedu is unlike any educational technology conference I’ve ever attended. There is no warehouse of booths at its core but a full schedule of lectures and discussions set amid a whirlwind of networking events. While some found the sessions lacking, …
YouTube offers a Partner Program to help you easily monetize your videos on YouTube. Once you are accepted into the program, upload a video “that you have created” on to YouTube, enable advertising for that video and wait for the …
These are basically tools other teachers and edubloggers have reviewed in their websites and blogs and which I think are worth sharing with you and keeping you posted about the latest in the world of educational technology.
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2014/03/10-new-educational-web-tools-to-try-out.html
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Learn how to use PressBooks, a derivation of WordPress that outputs in html, pdf or e-pub formats.
http://www.tonybates.ca/2014/03/03/getting-started-in-writing-an-open-textbook/
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For this year’s White House Student Film Festival, students were asked to submit videos about how technology is used in their classrooms and how it will change education for kids in the future. Of the 2500 video submissions, 16 were …
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Curriculet enables teachers to deliver customized, Common Core aligned learning and digitally create and share their curriculum and lesson materials.
PClouds is a personal cloud service that, instead of using a third-party cloud server, it links and uses all of your already existing devices and storage. Why opt for this model over traditional third-party cloud storage solutions? Firstly, the security …
TextSecure is as a ‘peer-to-peer messaging app’, where messages are encrypted on one end, and only after they reach their intended recipients they are decrypted.
http://thehackernews.com/2014/03/textsecure-end-to-end-encrypted-and.html
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There are plenty of free apps out there to help you with budgeting, cooking and organising your life.
http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/mar/05/top-ten-apps-for-students
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OER are teaching and learning materials that are freely available online. Our goals with OER are to find the best possible course materials to engage our students, improve academic achievement, and save the district money.
http://www.edudemic.com/open-educational-resources-2/
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