Having a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) classroom can be a great way to bring technology into your classroom when you might not otherwise have it. You’re letting your students use technology that they’re likely quite familiar with, and both …
Four New Ways to Customize your Google Forms
Starting today, you’ll be able to take advantage of four new features to create your perfect form: progress bars, data validation, embedded YouTube videos, and custom messages.
http://googledrive.blogspot.ca/2013/09/four-new-ways-to-customize-your-google.html…
7 Tech Tools for Collaboration
Here are some of our favorite tools for learning from one another, sharing best practices and growing as an educator along the way.
A Teacher’s Guide to Classroom Backchannels & Informal Assessment
A great guide to using backchannels in the classroom. The guide includes ideas and directions for using Padlet, Socrative, and TodaysMeet.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/09/backchannels.html
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Amara: Caption, translate, subtitle and transcribe video
The easiest way to caption and translate any video. The most powerful and flexible subtitling platform in the world.
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Integrating Active Videos into Active Learning
Yann Brouillette (Dawson College faculty) has created videos that reflect his interests in chemistry, film and active learning. As these films have been posted on YouTube, teachers can use them in the classroom or as a model for other productions.…
The Business of Textbooks or Why do Students Prefer Print?
It is becoming quite clear that, despite the ubiquity of computers and interactive technology in their lives, students preferred textbooks over e-books for learning.
http://clintlalonde.net/2013/08/09/the-business-of-textbooks/
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Learning Analytics: The Emergence of a Discipline
A really good, detailed overview of learning analytics as an “emerging discipline”. Even some good coverage of the institutional adoption of learning analytics.
http://davidtjones.wordpress.com/2013/09/04/learning-analytics-the-emergence-of-a-discipline/
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Samsung Chromebook: Six Months Later
This week we take a look at the Samsung Chromebook, an affordable, yet stylish Chromebook which garnered mostly positive reviews and has been at the top of Amazon’s top sellers list for months. For $250 it looks like a steal, …
7 Interesting Ways You Can Play With Word Clouds
Word clouds or tag clouds can be put to lot of uses because they help to jog our brains and make it see the mundane in alternative ways. Isn’t that the trigger for creativity? Let’s find out with some examples.…
8 Unbeatable Resources for Online Learning
There are a vast and rich array of resources for online learning available – some very well known, others less so, but all offering an engaging and efficient way for students to widen their knowledge. Here are some of our …
Extracurricular Empowerment: Scott McLeod at TEDxDesMoines
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Presentation of the Week: Data Visualization & Information Design: One Learner’s Perspective
Use of Interactive Tools in a French as a Second Language Blended Course Using Videoconferencing
Chantale Giguère, a Dawson teacher, gave a blended French as a second language course using the VIA platform for a synchronous online lesson every second meeting. Both she and her students found the platform user-friendly, and unexpectedly, Chantale felt that …
Chromebooks for Education: A Student’s View
A student’s overview on using a Chromebook laptop.
http://newmindgroup.blogspot.ca/2013/08/chromebooks-for-education-students-view.html
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