DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
Find out what’s really happening with students today and how, despite major challenges, outstanding teachers are finding new and exciting ways to inspire learning for life.
http://www.good.is/post/our-latest-good-guide-learn-about-what-works-in-the-classroom…
Google Earth was one of the very first pieces of software that I began to create educational resources with. As I put it in one of my first ever blog posts 5 years ago: ”This app won me over straight …
As an educator, you know how important it is to continue to learn throughout your life. With this collection of videos, you can learn all about teaching, learning, and the policies of schools. Check out our list to find the …
Google just launched an “early preview” of Dart, a programming language the company hopes will help Web application programmers overcome shortcomings of JavaScript that Google itself feels acutely.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20117924-264/google-debuts-dart-a-javascript-alternative/…
How does Twitter service impact academics and scholarly communication? That’s exactly what researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are hoping to figure out.
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_scholars_are_using_twitter_infographic.php…
You can’t talk about how technology is revolutionizing education without mentioning Facebook. If you’re a teacher, you would be well served by spending 3 minutes to read through this must-have guide.
http://edudemic.com/2011/01/every-teachers-must-have-guide-to-facebook/…
Any learning that allows instructor, students, and content to be located in different locations so that instruction and learning occur independent of time and place; often used synonymously with the term “Distance learning”.
Even as many institutions grapple with their cloud strategies, faculty are taking advantage of cloud-based services to rev up their classes and engage students.
Inclusive classrooms are a charged and popular topic in current education. Explore some of the latest tech and theories in the field.
The book itself is an attempt at collaborative, digital publishing, with early drafts made public for comment and suggestions, using ‘a new digital tool, called CommentPress, that allowed readers to open a comment box for any paragraph of the text …
Today’s generation just has to type in a URL and hey presto, there are more than a dozen sites plying cheap textbooks for sale or rent. Most of these sites are US only.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/sites-college-textbooks-cheap-rent-buy/…
Dive into the fascinating world of modern technology with the following five TED Talks.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-fascinating-inspiring-ted-talks-explore-edge-technology/…
You carry your important files on a USB drive but when you plug that drive into another computer, Windows search can’t find your files. This portable desktop search tool should fix the problem.
http://www.labnol.org/software/usb-desktop-search-tool/20147/…