DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
Few people have the time – or even the skill – to trawl through and edit those good bits down into a real sequence. So with one click Magisto finds the good edited highlights automatically.
http://eu.techcrunch.com/2011/04/05/magisto-makes-video-editing-a-snap-for-the-masses/…
A team of researchers from Concordia University (Montreal) has developed an effective new technique to determine the authorship of anonymous emails. Tests showed their method has a high level of accuracy.
http://www.concordia.ca/now/what-we-do/research/20110307/identifying-anonymous-email-authors.php…
Visuals Engine is a useful free resource from ConnectABILITY. The Visuals Engine provides six customizable templates for creating choice boards, story boards, schedules, and achievement charts.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2011/04/create-helpful-charts-on-visual-support.html…
The company launched Skype in the Classroom, a dedicated teacher network. Using the platform, teachers can create profiles that describe their classes and teaching interests. They can also search a directory of teachers from all over the world by student …
This guide is constantly being updated by users. It’s a great resource with interesting tips on how to use an iPad in the classroom.
https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dhn2vcv5_721gdk5jtd8…
This website is the product of a collaboration that started in the fall of 2010 when a total of eighty New School faculty, librarians, students, and staff came together to think about teaching and learning with digital media. These conversations …
Games help the teacher to create contexts in which the language is useful and meaningful. The learners want to take part and in order to do so must understand what others are saying or have written, and they must speak
Tablets are hot, thanks to the original iPad and now the iPad 2. The tablet space is going to get really smoking hot this year with some compelling devices hitting the market that will crank things up a notch. Here …
We’ll take a look at some of the newer web-based storage and file-sharing sites that despite their simple looks, offer convenient drag-and-drop, as well as, shortened URLs and statistics (something that most desktop programs don’t provide yet).
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/3-superb-ways-share-files-online/…
An interesting guide to Twitter created using Livebinders.
iPads. Interactive Whiteboards. Netbooks. Video games. Although educational technologies are being implemented more and more in classrooms across the country, we don’t often stop and ask students – or their parents – what they think their technology needs are. But …
You get 5GB of cloud storage, free, that’s yours to do with as you please. The focus is clearly music, but you can put documents, photos, and videos on there as well.
The Lesson activity in Moodle helps creating modules that contain all the information a student needs to complete a block of study.