DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
Alarmingly a recent survey of higher education professionals showed that more than half the surveyed faculty members think Twitter has no future in academia or potential use in higher education.
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Please be sure to check out the newly available GoogleApps for Education Demo site, which allows you to do all sorts of stuff. Thanks to Dana Nguyen from GoogleApps for Education for sharing this information!
Google Books is a Google service that makes discovering book content easier for us on the web. It started way back in 2004 and since then its mission has been to digitally scan and archive tons of book. But Google …
Searching for images has long been a neglected feature in common search engines. You had to rely on good tags, otherwise it was difficult to find just the right image. Tracing images across the net was out of the question. …
Just in time for the start of the World Cup later this week (today, June 11th), Google has released new Google Maps Streetview imagery for South Africa. The imagery includes views of the interior of the stadiums in which the …
In October 2009, Google released Google Maps Navigation for Android devices, a free turn-by-turn navigation system based on Google Maps. At first, the service was limited to the U.S. Recently it was extended to the U.K. and Ireland, and now …
Fotobabble is a free service that allows you to quickly turn a picture into an audio picture story. Using Fotoabble is easy, just upload an image to Fotobabble, allow Fotobabble to access your computer’s microphone, and start recording your voice. …
Scientists say juggling e-mail, phone calls and other incoming information can change how people think and behave. They say our ability to focus is being undermined by bursts of information.
Michael Zimmer, who writes The Pursuit of Technology Integration Happiness, has published a great 17 page ebook titled Tools for the 21st Century Teacher. In the ebook Michael outlines a variety of web-based tools that can be used in almost …
There’s a big difference between allowing the use of social media and requiring it. That difference probably explains the ambivalence of students in Brian Croxall’s courses, and he had them bouncing from wikis to Twitter to Wave. You can’t just …
In a court battle in the province of Quebec, Canada, initiated more than two years ago, free software activists Savoir Faire Linux (translated ‘Linux know-how’) won the right to submit offers when the government takes public requests for submissions to …
The Eureka! Festival offers visitors an outstanding opportunity to meet enthusiastic scientists, exchange ideas, ask questions and imagine the technological innovations of the future. The Festival features a wide variety of activities and explores the many aspects of science: in …
The nuances of Copyright and Creative Commons and the differences between them can be confusing. I recently came across this neat little video that does a good job of explaining Creative Commons and what Creative Commons licenses allow or do …
The one question Apple never answers at keynotes—their opinion is implicit—is always the most pertinent: Should I buy this new thing? Here’s a simple guide:
Webquests, originally designed by Bernie Dodge and Tom March of San Diego State University, are web-based projects in which students take a predetermined journey across the net to learn about and synthesize their knowledge on a specific topic. Usually these …