DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
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…
Social media opens up all new avenues of communication for college students, their classmates and their professors. A typical class may only take a few hours a week, but now with social media, the classroom can be a lively, 24/7 …
Educators are beginning to realize the powerful potential that Facebook has in the classroom, not as a distraction, but as a collaborative learning tool. How can Facebook benefit your class? This article enumerates 50 ways.
The best part of creating your assessments in Google Forms is the ability to have the spreadsheet do all of the work for you. Lets take a look at how to have Flubaroo a script for Google spreadsheets grade your …
With a great selection of apps focused on everything from word processing to keeping in touch with classmates, the tablet computer can be an invaluable tool for learning — no matter your age.
http://www.funeducationalapps.com/2011/08/back-to-school-40-best-science-ipad-apps-for-students.html…
This is a great service for those of you who want to sort of go paperless and need a virtual place to turn in files.Although the teacher should have dropbox you DO NOT have to have dropbox installed. You can …
Lessons learned from a an experienced teacher on how to integrate technology into a classroom.
http://mrspripp.blogspot.com/2011/08/4-steps-to-teaching-others-about.html…
Videos are standard viral fare of the web — they’re passed around so much that often people have no idea where they came from. A startup called Viewbix seeks to rectify that issue, with a service that lets anyone make …
Therese Huston offers some guidance on managing your time. Huston is the founding Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Seattle University, and author of Teaching What You Don’t Know.
A great guide to the 25 best online resources for finding free educational videos. With the exception of BrainPOP and Cosmeo, all listed sites offer their extensive video libraries for free.
A guide to help you manage your classes through the use of Web 2.0 tools.
We tested eleven of the most popular cloud storage services out there, looked at their price-per-gigabyte, and considered their various features and functionality. Read on to meet our gladiators, and to see which was the one cloud to rule them …
We increasingly have access to technology in our classrooms. And our students are increasingly bringing their own technology into the classroom in the form of mobile devices. Below are some more focused questions you can ask yourself in the process …