DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
It is highly important that you teach your students the ethical use of images they find online. Here are some of the websites you can use to look for free and licensed images.
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2013/03/tools-and-resources-to-find-licensed.html
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Digital learning to higher education will become what the forward pass was to football: It will revolutionize education.
Ask3 is a tool that teachers can use to create short instructional videos that are shared directly to their students’ iPads. Students can use Ask3 to ask questions about the video, mark the video with drawing tools, and create their …
A short guide to using backchannels for increasing participation in classroom discussions and for informally assessing your students’ knowledge.
Lethbridge College (Alberta, CA) recently unveiled an infographic demonstrating the results of their 2012 survey of 164 instructors regarding their teaching (online and face-to-face) and technology.
http://edudemic.com/2013/03/how-teachers-are-using-blended-learning/
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Whether you’re just getting started with eLearning course design and looking to get a better understanding of eLearning best practices, or you’ve been designing courses for a while and are trying to find ways of making your material more effective, …
Does your PC’s desktop bear a resemblance to a second grader’s? Need some help getting started before wading into the junk? Check out these tools.
http://mashable.com/2013/03/24/clean-up-your-desktop/
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We asked you to send us your visions of the future; hundreds of you did and now two winners have been chosen.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-21887443
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Kickboard’s teacher friendly classroom analytics tool enables real-time visibility into class-wide and individual student comprehension to allow teachers to make timely shifts in instruction or provide intervention.
http://gettingsmart.com/cms/edreformer/kickboard-big-data-for-teachers/…
This chart is broken up into three categories–Education 1.0 (the old way), 2.0 (the current way), and 3.0 (the future way). Whereas Education 1.0 was closed and industrial, 3.0 is open and ubiquitous. It is admittedly a mix of roadmap …
Striking.ly is a service that can be used to create one page websites to show off your best digital work or to advertise an event. Striking.ly provides a variety of templates for digital portfolios and digital flyers.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/02/use-strikingly-to-create-beautiful.html…
Impress.js is a free presentation tool inspired by the Prezi platform that can be used for creating attractive presentations.