DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
A great list of 50 online tools that help you convert not only digital documents but also images and various other media files. Read on to find the tools and see which ones suit your needs best.
http://www.technicallydigital.com/50-online-tools-to-convert-documents-and-media-files/…
Splicd is a handy service that lets users select and share a segment of a YouTube video. This service will be particularly useful for those times that you want to share only a part of a long video.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2011/08/try-splicd-to-share-just-portion-of.html…
Videos are standard viral fare of the web — they’re passed around so much that often people have no idea where they came from. A startup called Viewbix seeks to rectify that issue, with a service that lets anyone make …
A guide to help you manage your classes through the use of Web 2.0 tools.
If you just want students to occasionally publish an essay to the web for peer review, you might not need a full-fledged blogging platform. Here are five ways that you can have students publish their essays to the web in …
A great list of resources which focus on such general purpose sites that include some sort of rich media instruction (generally video).
Web 2.0 and other technology tools are making it quicker and easier than ever to create digital portfolios of student work, a method of assessment experts say increases student engagement
http://www.edweek.org/dd/articles/2011/06/15/03e-portfolio.h04.html…
A list of great Educational Technology tools. Hopefully some teachers and students will try to incorporate them in the classroom this year.
Many times you find yourself in a predicament, when you know the easiest way to get a file is to use Dropbox, but explaining about Dropbox will just take too long. Or maybe you need to get something into my …
Teacher Katie Rieser once purchased a $700 student response system, better known as “clickers,” for her high school classroom with money she raised online. Now a new startup called Socrative is offering a way for teachers like her to create …
Curation” may be one of the big buzzwords of 2011. As the amount of information accumulates thanks to the Web, it becomes increasingly important that we use tools to help us find information that’s relevant and useful.
http://mindshift.kqed.org/2011/08/how-can-web-2-0-curation-tools-be-used-in-the-classroom/…
A great variety of resources on how to use word clouds in education.
http://livebinders.com/play/play_or_edit?id=3017
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Some of the following tools will have teachers and students exploring wikis, open courseware, Twitter, blogging, comics, videos, and incorporating plenty of other tools that will help make learning fun.
http://www.onlineschools.org/2009/09/24/100-free-tools-to-make-your-teaching-more-entertaining/…
During the recent online seminar Web 2.0 Tools for Lifelong Learning in Online Courses, Prof. Joni Dunlap from CU-Denver, explained how she uses a variety of Web 2.0 tools to help students develop lifelong learning skills.
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With so many digital distractions, it’s a wonder we can get anything done. Fortunately, there are a number of writing applications that attempt to block out the distractions so we can finally focus.
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/tools_for_writing_without_distractions.php
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