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Monday May 31 2010

A Voyage of 5 Incredible Years

Lyse Favreau Coordinator, Profweb

February 2005 - Profweb comes into the picture. August 2006 - The English edition starts and in December 2006, Norm Spatz joins the Profweb team!

March 2010 - At least 10,639 different Profweb visitors set an all time record. June 2010 - Nearly 250 authors can take credit for 238 columns, 212 stories and 20 reports published in Profweb.

Honour Role

: © Ève-Lucie Bourque, World of Images, CCDMD.

Beyond these facts, the persistence, tenacity and devotion of certain people has molded Profweb into a valuable tool for any teacher who is inspired by IT integration into their professional life. Their contributions are important to mention.

Jocelyne, whose idea to make a server available to teachers and also to create a single portal to access the products and services of the IT partners among others, first comes to mind. Another name is Réjean, whose flash of inspiration resulted in the the perfect name for Jocelyne's concept - Profweb! Read the whole text

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Monday May 31 2010

Moodle Correction Perfection

Nicholas Walker Teacher, Cégep Ahuntsic

Below is a shorter version of the talk I prepared for the Rascals 2010 Colloquium in St-Sauveur. The main thrust of that talk was to argue that Moodle can do a better job providing corrective feedback on writing errors through a repurposing of the standard glossary module than hand-coding or MS Word. Moodle's glossary module is a kind of online dictionary that students and or the teacher can create together. Like any dictionary, it has concepts and definitions, but unlike any other dictionary, Moodle can automatically link concepts and keywords anywhere in your Moodle site to a popup window with their definitions in the glossary.

^{Click on the image below to access a 15 minute edited version of my presentation.} Read the whole text

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