DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
You’re probably already familiar with some of these tools, but not everyone has embraced their ability to work on multiple platforms, and plenty of readers may not even realize that some of these apps have this capability.
http://www.emergingedtech.com/2012/03/4-powerful-free-cloud-services-for-teachers/…
Dropbox is an online file-sharing and folder-syncing web 2.0 tool that enabled these teachers to share resources with their students and provides an option for students to turn in work online. Previously, students’ options for turning in work electronically were …
János Varga, a teacher from John Abbott College explains how cloud-based blended synchronous/asynchronous shared documents promote collaboration and active learning among students.
http://www.profweb.qc.ca/en/publications/reports/a-venir/the-issue/index.html…
Even as many institutions grapple with their cloud strategies, faculty are taking advantage of cloud-based services to rev up their classes and engage students.
If you are a cloud virgin, what is the best way to get started and learn more about what the cloud can offer? Here are several suggestions for you!
http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2011/09/7-ways-to-get-started-with-clo.php…
We tested eleven of the most popular cloud storage services out there, looked at their price-per-gigabyte, and considered their various features and functionality. Read on to meet our gladiators, and to see which was the one cloud to rule them …
With the recent announcement of iCloud, Apple joins Google, Amazon and Microsoft in their aggressive push into cloud computing, in a race to reel customers into their media ecosystems.
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/06/cloud-services-compared/…
Google announced last week a “new kind of computer” and a new program aimed at schools: Chromebooks for Education. These new devices look like laptops, but they run on Google’s new operating system Chrome OS and are truly Web-based and …
I think just about any teacher worth her or his salt is likely to do a lot of differentiation of instruction. Heck, I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest that some of the better teachers in your …
Pogoplug started its life as hardware — plug a USB drive into it and access files from anywhere. Now, there’s a software version of Pogoplug, substituting your Windows, Mac or Linux machine for that hardware and letting you share pictures, …
Jason Cross, from Yahoo News, on Cloud Computing: “Remember when the “cloud” was just called the “Internet?” This absurd fascination with naming online services after suspended atmospheric condensation is kind of driving me nuts.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20110501/tc_pcworld/stopthecloudiwanttogetoff…
We use several tools that keep our data accessible anywhere the web is, and it works rather well for us. Except when it doesn’t.
http://www.chrisbrogan.com/cloud-computing-requires-backup/…
Osmek is a new kind of CMS, built in the cloud so your content is available where and how you need it. It’s a beautiful interface for creating content, and a powerful set of APIs for retrieving it.
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.
If you’ve ever used Microsoft Office, Sharepoint, Exchange, or any other popular service from the corporate giant, you may have at some point wished things were just a little, well, easier to use. In its never-ending effort to follow every