Preamble

2.1 MISSION

Profweb’s Web site is instituted by the ministère de l’Éducation, du Loisir et du Sport (MELS) in collaboration with partners from the collegial network.

In recent years, major efforts have been made to ensure increased use of information technologies (IT) in educational programs at the collegial level. The MELS has contributed to that effort through, among other things, its financial support to organizations and associations whose mandate relates to the activation, distribution, development, and production of pedagogical material; as well as to the publication of research and development of tools aimed at the teaching community. The purpose of the resulting products and services of those groups is to enrich pedagogical content and use at the collegial level in order to promote student learning, notably with respect to IT competency.

The Consultative Committee for IT Integration in College Education was put into effect to ensure the coordination of all partners’ efforts and to facilitate the development of new avenues of intervention. In spite of all the efforts and realizations accomplished by the various partners, we observe that many teachers are not familiar with the resources and, consequently, do not make full use of their products and services.

We therefore need to ensure a greater accessibility to the available information and resources in order to reach more teachers and help them enrich their pedagogical activities by integrating IT into their curriculum. Profweb adheres to this goal by offering a one-stop gateway to all products, services, and projects realized by the collegial network. The Web site is a crossroad for this expertise and therefore contributes to the development of the learning community.

Profweb, the Quebec college crossroad for IT integration, is made available to the teachers of the collegial network in order to facilitate the integration of IT into teaching and learning activities.

Profweb has two distinct services:

A gateway to products and services designed for teachers who wish to integrate IT into their teaching and learning activities;
A personal space on a Web server hosting teachers’ various pedagogical resources.

Profweb is therefore contributing to:

A larger distribution of products and services developed by members of the collegial community who are working towards integrating IT into the practice of teaching and learning;
The development of an educational community by promoting, sharing and facilitating access to resources;
The professional development and support for teachers by providing them with easy access to resources and a forum in which to share and discuss their experiences integrating IT into their professional practice.

2.2 THE GOALS OF PROFWEB

Profweb’s development team pursues the following goals:
To support teachers in their development of new pedagogical practices by integrating IT into their curriculum;
To facilitate the access to, and the sharing of resources offered by the MELS partner organizations in the development of IT;
To increase the potential pool of users accessing the services offered by the different subsidized partners involved in IT development;
To improve the efficiency of IT integration within the network.

2.3 RESPONSABILITY FOR EDITORIAL CONTENT

Profweb’s Editorial Policy is subject to Profweb’s overall goals as determined by the entente between MELS and Profweb’s host establishment. The Steering Committee of Profweb would react in case of modifications of this agreement.
The Coordinator is responsible for the application of Profweb’s Editorial Policy.

2.4 GUIDELINES FOR THE DISTRIBUTION AND THE COMPILATION OF CONTENT

Profweb does not substitute or override its partners in their respective responsibilities. Profweb mainly seeks to distribute their resources using information automatically distributed by those partners. Profweb is therefore not to be considered a space that stores resources that IT Partners produce or refer to the Web site. Additionally, teachers have the possibility of saving files (Web sites, images, documents, etc.) in the Personal Web Space , which may, consequently, serve to support pedagogical activities.

2.5 ACCESS TO PROFWEB

Everyone has access to Profweb at http://www.profweb.qc.ca. However, a user name and password are necessary to access the Personal Web Space section.

2.6 LANGUAGES

Profweb exists in both a French and English version. There are no plans to develop Profweb in any other language.

2.7 WEB SITE STRUCTURE

The Web site is divided into sections for which the editing⁵ and the on-line publication process⁶ relating to its content⁷ is, as the case may be:

Accessible to the members of the collegial community who want to comment on various texts;
Accessible principally to teachers holding a Personal Space;
Reserved for the Coordinator and Collaborators who may edit and/or publish directly, or to the partners who do so automatically (through programming, for example, RSS).

The sections in which authors are authorized to edit their work, as per the different terms of agreement:

Comments
Contracts (for the Cession of Author’s Copyright).

The sections⁸in which the right to any editorial revision is reserved for the Coordinator and Collaborator, or for the partners (see Table in section 5.2):