DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
At the beginning of a semester create a folder, share it with your students, and then for the whole semester you can distribute assignments to students by just adding new content to the folder.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/04/use-shared-google-drive-folders-to.html…
There are ways to manage this information tsunami more efficiently, and tools to help. Here are five of the most popular, effective file management methods available to help you organize your online course work.
http://www.bestcollegesonline.com/blog/2013/04/04/5-tools-to-organize-online-course-work/…
Uruguay may only have 3.3 million inhabitants, but this South American country has distributed more than half a million free laptops to its students and teachers over the last five years.
http://thenextweb.com/la/2013/04/07/uruguays-one-laptop-per-child-program-impact-and-numbers/
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These are the five tools that I recommend for creating and editing videos without installing any special software.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/04/the-five-best-tools-for-creating-videos.html…
By using Google Apps as the background for my LMS, I can easily use any feature, function or app by working within the Google sphere.
http://edtechvoice.com/using-google-drive-as-an-lms/
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Technology has its place. Simply rejecting it outright is as dangerous as accepting it blindly. The point is to think critically about it and to do so with a sense of humility.
http://www.educationrethink.com/2013/04/ten-myths-about-technology.html?spref=tw
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So how about having a paperless classroom ? In this regard I have crafted this little guide to help you better integrate technology into your teaching and drive paper away from you classroom, opps I mean most of it .…
Here is a summary of the 10 most commonly-cited reasons students don’t finish a MOOC.
http://www.openculture.com/2013/04/10_reasons_you_didnt_complete_a_mooc.html
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mmixr is the ultimate “All in One” presentation tool to help individuals, universities, and companies to create, manage and share engaging and animated presentation.
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Presentation.io is a new service that is designed to help your audience follow along with your presentations, allowing the members of your audience to see your slides on their laptops, iPads, and Android tablets and watch them change when you …
Can technology be used to improve the educational experience? Or is it the harbinger of a depressing future in which anonymous institutions educate thousands of students who never meet their professors?
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Quite simply, they’re useful and free ways to bring high-level thinking and through-provoking ideas into the classroom and your home. What could be better than that?
http://edudemic.com/2013/03/why-ted-talks-have-become-so-popular/…
Universities are ahead of the curve in adopting open source. We should now lead the public sector in exploring its full potential.
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