DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
Why curate? What is the value of curating for teachers? Really –what is the benefit of curating in terms of the learning goals – enduring understandings and 21st century skills for our students?
http://d20innovation.d20blogs.org/2012/07/07/understanding-content-curation/…
Here is a list of some of the best tech tools, including some that are becoming increasingly popular and widely used, that should be part of any teacher’s tech tool arsenal this year, whether for their own personal use or …
Visual recording is what it sounds like it’d be. As opposed to recording audio, visual recording captures visuals, though not necessarily in photographic form. The process of visually capturing ideas with the iPad isn’t terribly complex in concept. If you …
Amazon Glacier is a new online backup service where you can store your files for as little as1¢ per GB per month. This is the cheapest storage plan offered by any cloud storage vendor even and Amazon promises 99.999999999% durability …
You can’t motivate students with technology because technology alone isn’t motivating. Worse yet, students are almostalways ambivalent toward digital tools. While you may be completely jazzed by the interactive whiteboard in your classroom or the wiki that you just whipped …
When it comes to searching for educational apps to install on your iPad it feels like you get drowned in an avalanche of apps and resources from which you emerge empty-handed.Thankfully, there are many trusted educational resources where educators and …
For the students out there, the closing of summer means a change of scenery, from beach and bonfires to classrooms and textbooks. To ready yourself into study mode, we’re highlighting six tech products to bring out the A student in …
A group of online-learning ventures is collaborating on a new kind of free class to be offered this fall, known as a mechanical MOOC (for “massive open online course”), that will teach a computer-programming language by patching together existing resources …
Here are five online tools that you and your students can use to create audio files online.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2012/08/5-alternatives-to-aviary-for-creating.html…
So what if you could make your own infographics? What would you make it of? It’s actually easier than you think… even if you have zero design skills whatsoever.
Below are my two favorite infographic-making web 2.0 tools that I …
If you’re looking to deploy iPads in education, you may think that it’s just a matter of expense and storage. Those things are big, but they’re not the biggest problems you’ll face. In fact, this is one of those situations …
What does it mean to be a great teacher? Here is a compilation of ten items.
http://www.educationrethink.com/2012/08/what-does-it-mean-to-be-great-teacher.html…
Keep reading to find out why two educators make digital connections a priority and how they do it.
http://www.convergemag.com/training/Why-Educators-Should-Spend-Time-Daily-on-Social-Media.html…