DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
With 70 percent of its global audience living outside of the U.S., the video hosting platform introduces a new tool to make caption translations easier for video makers.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57519449-93/youtube-debuts-video-translator-for-300-languages/…
Chockadoc is a place to find full-length documentaries that you can watch online for free. The benefit of using Chockadoc over YouTube is the categorization of the videos. The categorization makes it easier than searching YouTube to find documentaries about …
Researchers from Northwestern University and the University of Michigan published a study earlier this month that found the infamous “information overload” to be less of a reality than previously imagined.
Mural.ly is a new tool (still in beta) that is a cross between Prezi and mind maps. It’s easy to use and share what you create (perfect for most students, teachers, and parents) but the real beauty of mural.ly is …
Youtube just released a Video Questions Editor (beta). Through this editor you can setup multiple questions to be displayed on top of your video during playback that a viewer can answer.
http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/20/youtube-video-questions-editor/…
The platform, called Class2Go, allows professors the flexibility to incorporate other online tools and to conduct research as they teach.
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2012/september/class2go-online-platform-091212.html…
Over 75% of US students regularly choose not to buy the textbooks their professors require, a recent student survey has revealed.
http://edudemic.com/2012/09/study-uncovers-why-students-buy-digital-vs-paper-textbooks/…
Given this huge importance of videos in education, it becomes teachers responsibility to look for educational videos to use in the classroom.The lists below will also empower those of you who want to create their own videos and tutorials, with …
Whilst some teachers do not like Moodle because they have an aversion to using technology altogether, there are also ‘technophile’ teachers who simply do not like Moodle for other reasons (interface, clunkiness, etc.).
http://www.iteachwithmoodle.com/2012/08/30/10-ways-to-get-reluctant-teachers-to-use-moodle/…
Microsoft has released a free version of Office 365 for education to compete with Google’s education cloud.
Google has entered the increasingly crowded eLearning fray with their new Course Builder software, an open source software that will allow educators to create courses of their own on any topic.
http://www.teachthought.com/technology/a-checklist-for-using-googles-new-elearning-course-builder/…
There’s a whole new classroom model and it’s a sight to behold. The newest school system in Sweden look more like the hallways of Google or Pixar and less like a brick-and-mortar school you’d typically see.
http://edudemic.com/2012/09/swedens-newest-school-system-has-no-classrooms/…
From multimedia to geocaching, the possibilities for using mobiles to engage learners are endless. Teachers tell how and why they are using the devices in school.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/teacher-network/2012/sep/10/mobile-phones-classroom-teaching…