DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
The Web is critical not merely to the digital revolution but to our continued prosperity—and even our liberty. Like democracy itself, it needs defending. An article by Tim-Berners Lee, the inventor of the Web.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=long-live-the-web
W3C has announced the third version of its standards for the inclusion of mathematical expressions in Web pages. MathML (Mathematical Markup Language) is aimed to make math on the Web more accessible and more international.
http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2010/10/w3c-announces-mathml-3-new-sta.php…
Google has just released a developer preview of a new image format called WebP. WebP promises to significantly reduce the byte size of photos on the web, allowing websites to load much faster.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/introducing-googles-webp-faster-web-alternative-jpeg-news/
Giants and upstarts of publishing gathered at the annual BookExpo America last week agreed e-books will transform the business but believe the big change will come when there is a standard format across which all e-books can be published and …