DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
Learn how to easily embed YouTube videos into your Microsoft Office documents. For readers who use Microsoft Office, the HP Teacher Experience Exchange has a short video tutorial on how to embed YouTube videos into Microsoft Office 2010 documents.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2011/08/how-to-embed-videos-into-microsoft.html…
Multitasking is the ideal mode of the 21st century, not just because of information overload but also because our digital age was structured without anything like a central node broadcasting one stream of information that we pay attention to at …
Here are two ways you can use your iPad with the SMART Board. Please note that only the iPad 2 model has full video mirroring, allowing you to project whatever is on the iPad screen. The original iPad only projects …
There are several online app-only methods for turning YouTube into animated GIFs, but we’ll focus today on a service that doesn’t require a signup or login to make it as easy as possible.
http://www.howtogeek.com/72084/convert-youtube-videos-to-animated-gifs-the-easy-way-no-photoshop/…
The Apple iPad’s reign as higher education’s computer tablet of choice might be put to the test as Seton Hall University announced a pilot program that will put Android-based tablets—the iPad’s main rival—in the hands of 350 students and faculty …
Give an old computer a new life, using Ubuntu. It’s simple if you follow the instructions in this guide. Outlining everything you need to know to get Ubuntu up and running on older computers, this guide isn’t one to be …
The EPUB format is the open eBook standard developed by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF). It is based on a number of other open standards including XHTML and CSS, just like the web.
http://www.aclea.org/Portals/0/conferenceonline/2011Boston/Boston_14.pdf…
Some new research has shown that social networking can also have positive effects on teens such as helping introverted adolescents forge relationships or providing a venue for activism and political engagement.
A new research project by the Open University explores the much-debated concept of “the digital native”. The university does this by making full use of the rich resource which is its own highly diverse student body.
Technology’s role in the classroom has been widely debated: does it simply feed an addiction to a mobile lifestyle, or does it give otherwise shy students a way to find their voices? Find more here.
A great list of 50 online tools that help you convert not only digital documents but also images and various other media files. Read on to find the tools and see which ones suit your needs best.
http://www.technicallydigital.com/50-online-tools-to-convert-documents-and-media-files/…
E-textbook maker Kno announced Monday that it will integrate thousands of tutorial videos from Khan Academy into its books.
Splicd is a handy service that lets users select and share a segment of a YouTube video. This service will be particularly useful for those times that you want to share only a part of a long video.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2011/08/try-splicd-to-share-just-portion-of.html…