DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
If you use Google’s webmail service, Gmail, you can now search attachments in your e-mail messages that are in formats from popular programs, such as Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Office, and others.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2010889/gmail-adds-support-for-search-inside-message-attachments.html…
Here we bring you 30 free web services and tools for video editing. You don’t pay a penny while enjoying the fun of video clips editing.
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/video-editing-30-free-tools-and-web-services-to-get-things-done/…
The emerging products, companies and high-tech tools on our list are all designed to make life easier for online teachers, students and researchers.
http://edudemic.com/2012/09/10-emerging-education-technologies/…
The article shares the most common challenges schools had while using iPads, so your school doesn’t have to make them.
http://edudemic.com/2012/09/5-critical-mistakes-schools-ipads-and-correct-them/…
In 1983, Steve Jobs gave a speech at the International Design Conference in Aspen. The audio recording of this event surfaced in June, but it was missing an interesting Q&A session that took place after the speech.
Here is the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2012 as voted for by 582 learning professionals worldwide.
Too few schools are exploiting digital instructional content for all of its benefits. While many in education continue to perpetuate the decades-old textbook-centric approach to providing students and teachers with instructional materials, the gap is widening between what technology allows …
Wikipedia remains misunderstood because many educators have yet to recognize the distinction between Wikipedia as a tool for teaching and Wikipedia as a tool for research. Unfortunately, fear of the latter has blinded most to the possibilities of the former. …
If you’ve been using Angry Birds to teach physics and carefully showing kids how important the trajectory launch path is, then this educational app is for you! Rovio Entertainment have released a new Physics app ‘Amazing Alex ‘, to get …
Think of CloudMagic as a private version of Google that lets you search all your personal data stored in the various clouds from a central location.
http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2012/09/20/tech-journal-a-google-for-your-private-data/…
The latest version of India’s $35 tablet comes equipped with WiFi. The impact of a successful rollout is difficult to overestimate: rural schools that have been connected to the Internet show immediate and tremendous gains.
Planboard helps teachers easily plan and view their academic year. It’s quick and easy to add items for each class.
Kinect specifically is an accessory to the Xbox 360, where motion and gestures control game functions. But why use it in the classroom? And how should you use it in the classroom? Today I present not only a great rationale …