DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
While the results of this survey by the National Literacy Trust are hardly conclusive, students who engaged in higher levels of social networking tending to consider themselves better writers.
http://www.teach42.com/2009/12/14/does-using-social-media-make-your-writing-gooder/…
MP3 – you keep hearing it all over. You realize that it has something to do with music or that it is an audio file extension. However, there are many audio file formats out there, but nothing as popular as …
With Christmas approaching you might be looking for the perfect gift for the web geek in your life. Maybe you are that web geek and just want inspiration for your list of requests?
Here’s a list of some of the …
Do you have to work on websites that will be viewed on MANY different systems and MANY different browsers? Well then how do you preview a web page on all of these systems? See the answer on the link below:…
Wolfram Alpha is an interesting search engine because of the unique tasks it can perform. Wolfram Alpha has a function that will walk you through the steps of solving an equation. To use this function, enter your equation then click …
Navify is a mashup of Wikipedia, Flickr, and YouTube. Navify attempts to match videos and images to Wikipedia articles. To use Navify, simply enter a search term just as you would on Wikipedia. The results of your search will be …
Nice paper looking at the benefits and negatives of social networking. An interesting negative is ‘social resistance to change’: “Active social networking opens you up to being heavily influenced by others. In a way it subjects you to a new …
The following tools are all free and simple to use. This means there’s no cost, nothing to download, no CDs, no manuals and no training. The best of these also do not require users to have email, registration or log …
Assigning a video creation project can be a great way to get kids excited about your class. When kids are excited about a project they will generally invest more effort into that project. YouTube is offering a free webinar that …
We knew it was inevitable, and now it’s here: Google has just launched real-time search integrated into search results pages. Google real-time search updates as stuff is happening around the Web — for example, live tweets, Yahoo Answers, news articles …
Speakers and presenters at conferences are increasingly finding their audience live tweeting during their presentation. In most cases, the presenter has no clue about what the audience is saying on Twitter. This leads to a disconnect between the true thoughts …
Nellie Deutsch and Gladys Gahona would like to invite you to a free 5-day e-learning professional development workshop for educators who want to learn how to use WikiEducator and Moodle to share online content with students, create and facilitate online …
YouTube claims that twenty hours of video is uploaded to its site every minute. Much of this video is created by amateur video producers. In years past if you wanted to create video, you had to have (often expensive) recording …
Google has announced more additions to its Street View imagery. Google has added Street View imagery of nineteen UNESCO World Heritage sites around Europe. Some of these sites include the Palace of Versailles, Stonehenge, and the historic center of Prague. …
If you think the sexting phenomenon is growing, you’re not imagining it. According to a new survey, almost one-third of youths admit they’ve engaged in sexting-related activities that involved either e-mailing a photo or video of themselves in the nude …