DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
When you search for images online, often a wide variety of results are displayed. This makes finding the image you want more difficult. Here to help you simplify matters is a web service called PicsLikeThat.
http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/picslikethat-narrow-image-searches-finding-pictures-similar/…
One of the challenges facing Patricia Murphy, a Dawson College teacher, is how to make student feedback explicit – both to herself and amongst her students. Wordle struck her as a great tool to capture the collective voice of students …
The images you select and where you choose to find them will vary depending upon their application. There are enough different types of image sites out there to find exactly what you need.
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.
You carry your important files on a USB drive but when you plug that drive into another computer, Windows search can’t find your files. This portable desktop search tool should fix the problem.
http://www.labnol.org/software/usb-desktop-search-tool/20147/…
dotEPUB is a free service that allows you to convert the content of a webpage into an ePub format to read on your tablet, phone, or other ereader device.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2011/10/dotepub-convert-any-webpage-into-epub.html…
A content curation tool, in simple English, lets you easily pull videos, images, presentations, tweets, blog posts and other web content into a collection which you can then embed, publish or share online. Here is a list of a few …
Here are seven tools that you can use to create annotated screen capture images and screencast videos.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2011/09/7-good-screen-capture-tools-for.html…
How do you determine what technologies to use in your classroom? Do you have a set of criteria to systematically select the tools? Are they linked to your students‘ characteristics, pedagogy, and learning outcomes?
Trying to make your photos more interesting? How about achieving similar results by nothing more than point and click? Check out the following sites to add funny, interesting and artistic effects to your photos.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-sites-to-add-amazing-effects-to-your-photos/…
Editing a video is a valuable skill to learn when dealing w/ 21st century technology. This is a great list of sites for editing a video which is a valuable tool for technology literacy.
http://cyber-kap.blogspot.com/2011/09/top-10-sites-for-video-editing.html…
Classroom websites are a great way to give your class an online presence that you can be proud of, and you’ll be surprised at how easy it is to do. Weebly’s education accounts let you create secure student blogs, or …
A word cloud is an attractive way of visualising a large chunk of text in a more pleasing way. It shows the most frequent words used throughout the text. It’s a good way of seeing which words are used the …
There are several online app-only methods for turning YouTube into animated GIFs, but we’ll focus today on a service that doesn’t require a signup or login to make it as easy as possible.
http://www.howtogeek.com/72084/convert-youtube-videos-to-animated-gifs-the-easy-way-no-photoshop/…