Recent releases
- Monday May 14, 2012 François Lizotte (Plateforme collégiale DECclic) MoodleDay Musings The 2012 edition of MoodleDay demonstrated, more and more teachers are using the Moodle learning platform in Quebec. Moodle's flexibility can be an enormous advantage but requires a lot of input on the part of the user.
- Monday May 07, 2012 Nicole Perreault (Réseau REPTIC) A Directory of Free Software or Shareware Classified Using the ICT Profile for College Students Nicole Perreault, host of the IT Representatives' Network invites college network teachers to consult a directory of free software or shareware that can be used in an academic context. She encourages teachers to coontribute to the repertory and explains how to include other technopedagogical tools.
- Monday April 30, 2012 APOP Small and Grand Passions - Teachers Express Their Opinion on Their Choice of Academic Software and Web Applications The management team at APOP surveyed teachers to find out their software and web application passions. Their findings will serve as a guide for planning the association’s course offerings in information and communication technology in education.
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A Dynamic Library for Teachers Is Just A Click Away!
Isabelle Laplante
bibliothécaire professionnelle, Centre de documentation collégiale (CDC)
Thousands of teaching-related documents on the process of learning or institutional development are a click away, available on-line at the new CDC (Centre de documentation collégiale) website. Documenting activities in the college network, the CDC has become an important part of the very activities it records.
A Specialized Library for Education
Mandated by MELS (ministère de l'Éducation, du Loisir et du Sport) to collect and distribute the educational heritage of the college network, the CDC is a library truly dedicated to education. Its collection focuses on teaching, the learning process and the institutional development of colleges and cégeps.
A Publicist for its Own Collection
Attentive to the needs of the network, the CDC goes beyond the usual services of a library to make the wealth of information that it possesses better known. As an example, this autumn the CDC will develop a pilot project of support for new teachers in the college network. A toolkit for class management will contain information about the basic concepts of this skill, helpful tips and links to more on-line resources. More details will be released soon!
A Catalog Filled with Resources
Moreover, the CDC offers an increasing number of unabridged versions of important texts. It distributes reports and articles promoting research funded by the PAREA program of MELS. Also, in association with the AQPC (Association québécoise de pédagogique collégiale), the CDC distributes the unabridged version of articles appearing in Pédagogie collégiale magazine and the Proceedings of this organization's popular annual symposium. Other documents on-line are the fruits of a joint projet with Performa to promote the research done by teachers of the network.
The library is yours to use and to build.The CDC is here to serve you! The new website opens the CDC catalog of more than 30,000 documents to browsers from around the province and around the world. Twenty five percent of documents acquired over the last five years are in an electronic format and directly accessible on-line.
Another necessity for updating research or staying up-to-date with on-line progress is the bibliographic database. It is part of the invisible web. The CDC has negotiated a license allowing each user of the college network access1 to the specialized databases in education of ProQuest (CBCA Fulltext Education, ERIC Plustext and ProQuest Education Journals). There are references to more than 2,000 journals available with instant access to full texts in more than 1,000 of them.
A Simple Way to Stay Informed
CDC's RSS feeds are a great way to stay abreast of its new acquisitions. Several feeds under development at the moment include ‘New Acquisitions in Electronic Format' and ‘New PAREA reports on IT'. Currently, Profweb en français in its En savoir plus feature has an RSS feed on « Nouveaux documents sur les TIC en enseignement et en apprentissage (New Documents on Technologies in Teaching and Learning)». A similar feed to the English side is under construction.
A Special Invitation to Enrich Our Heritage
The new CDC website has a number of interesting tutorials on a variety of topics:
- how to research documentation;
- how to suggest a purchase;
- how to borrow a document or reserve it if it is already on loan;
- and importantly, how to make a contribution!
In effect, the more you contribute to the CDC, the richer its collection and the better it will be able to respond to your needs! The library is yours to use and to build!
You are therefore cordially invited to contribute a paper copy or an electronic copy of any document or text dealing with teaching, the learning process or institutional development. Contact us to find out how!
A special invitation is addressed to authors of documents available on portals and intranets. The CDC team awaits word from you to find out about this material which is difficult to find particularly when it is hidden on your invisible Web.
Let us know how the CDC can more effectively transmit information or documentation to new teachers. Use our Comments feature to tell us!
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1 A personal code will be given to any member of the network who makes an application.
Comments by readersReact to this text
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Great Site!
What a great new site! The CDC is a wonderful resource for anyone working in the cegep system. I am especially happy to see the section for "Freely licenced graphics" - it is always so hard to find such sites when time is short. Also, it is nice to see a section highlighting the work of students in the Performa MTP and giving us easy access to their research. Thank you!
Marleigh Greaney, I.T. Pedagogical Advisor, Vanier College [2008-10-15] |
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