DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
Google is officially obsessed with speed. If real-time search didn’t convince you of that fact, then take note of two new features with speed also at their core: universal search features in Google Suggest and Quick Scroll for Chrome.
http://mashable.com/2009/12/11/google-suggest-quick-scroll/…
When schools will make netbooks required materials, much like calculators for a math class, or gym shoes for gym class? With netbooks selling for $150 or less from time to time on sites like woot.com, I can’t help but ask: …
I’m useless at making predictions (haven’t even won a tenner on the Lottery yet!) and I’m not going to start now. But plenty of people have, so I’m going to mention some the better ones I have come across:
http://www.dontwasteyourtime.co.uk/elearning/edtech-trends-for-2010-its-started/…
The Digg front page moves stories very quickly down the archives and many interesting stories may never be found. Digg Labs is busy creating interactive visualizations that look beneath the surface of the Digg community’s activities like Stack and Swarm. …
At last, the Googlephone has appeared. Forget the Droid, the G1 and all those other Android wannabees: Google is testing its own handset, the search giant confirmed over the weekend.
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/12/google-phone-in-january-unlocked-thinner-than-iphone/…
In the 20 or so years since Sir Tim Berners-Lee conceived of and launched the World Wide Web, a lot has changed. Innovations in Web technology since then have continued to improve the way we communicate with each other. Here …
A whitepaper on the role of social networking in education by Steve Hargadon.
The free version of Flickr (www.flickr.com) is nice but really lacks if you want to use it as your main photo storage. Only the last 200 photos will be shown for instance and you don’t get to view and share …
Blackboard and Desire2Learn have formally ended their three-and-a-half-year legal dispute, a conflict that was triggered when Blackboard received a hotly disputed patent for electronic learning technologies and proceeded to enforce it through litigation against D2L.
http://thejournal.com/articles/2009/12/15/blackboard-desire2learn-end-dispute.aspx…
This year has been the biggest yet for online video, and for the first time we’re sharing our official Most Watched lists and some of the fastest-rising search terms on YouTube. Some moments were big (President Obama’s inauguration), some small …
People who spend the most time online are in fact the most educated claims a recent report from Eurostat.
http://thenextweb.com/europe/2009/12/16/report-active-online-educated/…
Do you love Google? Would you pay to use their services? They wouldn’t let you, even if you forced the money into Eric Schmidt’s clammy hands.
Digital Dialects has a large selection of educational games and activities for learning 55 different languages. Most of the games are designed to learn and practice the basics of each of the 55 languages listed on the Digital Dialects homepage.…
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 …