Presentation at the IT Rep Meeting at Cégep Montmorency (Laval/QC) on February 10th, 2012.

1. IT Rep Meeting
Cégep Montmorency (Laval) February 10th, 2012
Copyright: Don Walker
Creating a Newsletter and a Blog on
Educational Technology
Rafael Scapin, Ph.D.
Coordinator of Educational Technology
Dawson College

2. Topics
How everything started
DawsonITE: the Newsletter
DawsonITE: the Blog
Sources of Information
Questions

3. How Everything Started
Source: Go-Globe.com

4. How Everything Started
Source: http://www.agefotostock.com/en/Stock-Images/Royalty-Free/IMZ-jba0901

5. How Everything Started
Source: http://nicenwarm.blogspot.com/2010_10_01_archive.html

6. How Everything Started
A Weekly Newsletter was Born!
Source: studiokathomephotography.com

7. A Weekly Newsletter was Born
DawsonITE = Dawson IT in Education

8. How DawsonITE is created

9. Sources Used
Curation tools
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bnr6QKKcsII&
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=p
layer_profilepage&v=_UnzYWinUhk

10. Sources Used: Newsletter Workflow
URL Shortner
plugin

11. Sources Used: Newsletter Workflow
Every Friday, since November 27th, 2009, teachers
receive a brand new issue of DawsonITE.
Today’s issue (Feb. 10th, 2012): # 99
Total of Posts: 1,450

12. Creating the Blog
Problem
How to search for past articles?
Solution
Add the posts into a blog and
index them!

13. Creating the Blog
http://dawsonite.dawsoncollege.qc.ca

14. Creating the Blog

15. Creating the Blog
Presentation of the Week Video of the Week

16. Creating the Blog

17. How to Subscribe
Via email: rscapin@dawsoncollege.qc.ca
http://dawsonite.dawsoncollege.qc.ca/feed/

18. Questions

19. Contact Me
Rafael Scapin
Office of Instructional Development
Dawson College
rscapin@dawsoncollege.qc.ca
rscapin

20. Source: http://carytutor.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/merci.jpg