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 has jumped into the learning management system world. There’s plenty of promise of streamlined, improved learning. Here are ways I think it will help.
http://ditchthattextbook.com/2014/05/15/10-ways-google-classroom-will-make-learning-better/
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Internet-based education offers everything from a free maths lecture to a full course on ancient Roman history. But it has its critics.
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Movenote is an online video presentation tool that is quick, easy to use and available to everyone. The idea in Movenote is that it lets you combine your slides with yourself presenting them with no extra hassle. You can add …
Here’s a guide on how teachers can get into education technology, written in partnership with four other educator-entrepreneurs who have found their own unique way to combine their love for education with their love for technology.
https://www.edsurge.com/n/2014-05-17-help-i-m-a-teacher-how-do-i-get-into-education-technology
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Must-have Chrome extensions and apps that will improve your Google Chrome browser experience.
Though most of the tools below can share most files (mp3s, .movs, .mp4s, exe, .zip, .doc and .docx files, .pdfs, etc.), we focused more on documents, images, folders and software integration than incredibly detailed features that may make it overkill …
Citelighter is an intuitive online research platform that enables students and professionals to quickly find and record facts, automatically cite sources, and write better papers/documents.
Collecting feedback on courses benefits neither staff nor students – often it’s biased, sexist or simply unrealistic.
http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2014/may/09/student-feedback-waste-of-time
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It’s such a great, simple idea: Young Brazilians want to learn English. Elderly Americans living in retirement homes just want someone to talk to. Why not connect them?
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Basically, 3D printing is a technology that allows users to turn any digital file into a three dimensional physical product. The two videos below will explain what 3D is all about and the different ways it operates.
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2014/05/3d-printing-explained-for-teachers.html
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Many presentations incorporate photographs of some kind — though there’s an art to choosing and using them well. Here are 3 methods for doing so.
http://blog.slideshare.net/2014/05/12/3-ways-to-amplify-your-presentations-impact-with-photographs/
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There’s a lot that educators can do with many of the add-ons. Here’s a selection of several of them (not an exhaustive list) with benefits, drawbacks and things you can do with them. We’ll start with add-ons for Documents and …
Google Drive is here to make your life easy, but we’re here to make it even easier.
The multifaceted feature that allows you to create documents, photos, spreadsheets, drawings and more has boundless abilities. However, with Drive’s constant updates and …