DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
Teaching strategies are among the most important ingredients for highly-effective learning environments. Knowing the right teaching strategy for the right academic situation may not be a matter of expertise or training, but memory.
http://www.teachthought.com/teaching/50-teaching-strategies-to-jumpstart-your-teacher-brain/
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Organize solutions into clusters and “force multiply” feedback provided by instructors.
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Raw data is growing at a rate we can hardly imagine — and it will only grow as devices and behaviors become more adept at raw-content creating. The Curation Economy is built on some important, but I would argue inevitable, …
A great article and infographic profiling a handful of the next-gen tech devices students will be into in likely just a few years.
http://fluency21.com/blog/2013/10/12/8-next-gen-devices-students-will-be-using-in-a-couple-years/
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Get the most out of Google Drive with these 25 tips, tools, and tweaks for power users.
http://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/122661/25-tips-and-tools-make-google-drive-better-228176
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Watermarking is basically done to protect original pictures from being used by others under another name. Through a watermark added to the image, the original owners of images make sure their brand name is kept in the image wherever it …
Here is an interactive graphic that identifies the 5 characteristics of a connected educator with links to examples and resources to help make those connections.
http://gettingsmart.com/2013/10/6-tools-connected-educators/
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Learn new ways on how YouTube ranks videos as well as the areas that you should be properly optimizing in order to adhere to these ranking factors and plenty of tips on how you can optimize your videos/channel.
Are you looking for tools to create classroom posters? The collection below has probably what you are looking for. This is a list of some popular web tools that teachers can use with their students to create visually attractive graphics …
Offers bookmark synchronization, search enhancement and web discovery based on sites bookmarked by users.
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Robotics researchers are leveraging cloud collaboration tools and seemingly unlimited storage potential, among other benefits ripe for adoption.
http://www.edtechmagazine.com/higher/article/2013/10/what-cloud-robotics
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This article sums up how most people feel and where the schools, businesses and lifestyles are leading towards.
http://blog.wiziq.com/10-things-you-should-unlearn-before-starting-to-teach-online/…
Further recognition of the massive adoption of iPad by so many schools around the world, Apple have just launched two new sections on their iPad App Store. One section is aimed at teachers and parents with apps for the children. …