DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
With cuts to school budgets, teachers are often left searching for ways to innovate without breaking the bank. There are numerous sites that can help, but we’ve picked 10 that our among our favorites.
http://www.eschoolnews.com/2011/02/18/ten-great-sources-of-free-teacher-resources/
Minus (Min.us) provides a simple way to share files with anyone. To use Minus just drag a file onto the blank Minus canvas. Once your file is on the canvas Minus will provide you with links to share your file
Life in the 21st century provides a whole-new world of opportunities for self-directed, passion-driven, personalized learning. Educators who are ready to move on from teaching the way they were taught, and administrators who will let them, can begin supporting students
Digital signatures on PDF documents are highly useful. To digitally sign a PDF document you need a PDF modification application that usually comes with a price tag. But thanks to DigiSigner you can now easily digitally sign PDF documents for
RadBox is a useful web app that lets you bookmark web videos from all the popular sites to a common queue. You can then watch these videos later from one central location.
Quizzes are the one thing that is pretty common around the world in classrooms and education systems. Here are a few quiz makers that will easily let you put your students’ knowledge to the test!
http://blog.learningtoday.com/blog/bid/53956/Let-s-Get-Quizzical-Quiz-Makers-for-Teachers
Searching Gmail for attachments is basically awful. Because everything in Gmail is so text-based, searches yield results that are also text-based. But what if there was a Google Image-like search option for attachments? And what if it was one that
Great tools to help you use more technology into your classroom
https://sites.google.com/site/anchortechnologytomorrow/50-more-ways
Here are 5 Free PPT to video converters that can convert Powerpoint to video free. Download free PPTX to video converter.
http://www.ilovefreesoftware.com/13/featured/free-ppt-to-video-converters.html
Skype in the classroom is a free online directory for teachers everywhere who want to use Skype to bring education to life.
http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2011/02/skype-in-classroom-using-skype-to-bring.html
A new education-based social networking site, Diipo.com, has launched in beta form. The site provides a free service for collaborative blogging and networking among teachers and students.
You will find descriptions of each tool, an overview of and samples of specific tools (if provided), and any related video (if provided).
SlideShare, the popular presentation hosting, sharing and perusal website, launched a new feature that allows users to host a live one-way video presentation right next to the deck they are discussing. The feature, called Zipcast, allows users to do video
Have you ever tried to summarize long documents about topics you don’t really understand? If you want to use the good old way of extracting the facts and figures, Topicmarks can be your friend in need.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/topicmarks-cool-web-tool-summarize-long-documents/