Recent releases

Monday February 06, 2012 Benoit Bolduc (AQPC) The 32nd AQPC Symposium - Cultivating Judgment: from Montaigne to Today The 32nd AQPC Symposium will be held from June 6 to 8, 2012 at the Palais des congrès in Gatineau, and will explore the theme of cultivating critical thinking. Benoit Bolduc, director general of the AQPC (Association québécoise de pédagogie collégiale) presents several aspects of the upcoming program in which IT will occupy an important place. The complete program of the symposium will be available at the end of March 2012.
Monday January 30, 2012 APOP Using APOP’s ICT Savvy APOP is now accepting project proposals from Anglophone sectors within the Quebec College Network. APOP can assist you in structuring your project, helping you to foresee every dimension that needs to be addressed, taking advantage of their 30 years of experience in the pedagogical application of ICT expertise.
Monday January 23, 2012 Maeve Muldowney (Dawson College) Fanny Kingsbury (AQPC) Norm Spatz (Profweb) Pédagogie Collégiale's IT English Secret Thanks to information technology, a wealth of English pedagogical information from the AQPC's Pédagogie collégiale is available to members of the Quebec College Network and to anyone else at a single click. With the launch of its English Editorial Board, the journal is hoping to become better known within the Anglophone community.

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Monday April 26, 2010

A Rich Harvest at CCDMD

Véronica Gill CCDMD Réjean Jobin CCDMD

As the academic year comes to a close, the CCDMD is proud to present the fruits of another year of hard work, another rich harvest of digital educational resources.

Take a look at this lineup which will open a whole world of exciting learning opportunities to use with your students.

Netquiz Pro 4 - Formative Edition

Here's a totally new take on one of CCDMD's most popular programs. Netquiz Pro. Designed for people who want to construct quick formative exercises, this improved version contains a number of new features that will be highly appreciated such as a new type of question 'classification' that joins the 11 types in the old version.

Compatible with all browsers and sporting a new online interface, the new version can be downloaded free from the CCDMD site. An English version should be available before summer.

World of Images - with enhanced video feature

Even if World of Images has been a fixture at CCDMD for many years, this venerable repository has become an invaluable source of images to use with leading edge Web 2.0 functions such as sharing media, adding comments and embedding videos. This immense bank of material meets the growing need to use copyright-free illustrations, photographs and videos for the creation of quality academic materials. To date, more than 31,000 media files are available on the site.

Resistance Training

Designed to facilitate the creation of individualized fitness training programs, Resistance Training software is now available in a new improved and corrected edition that is offered in both English and in French. All Quebec college students can now get in shape!

Sonic Truths: Popular Music and Knowledge

The DVD Sonic Truths: Popular Music and Knowledge explores the role of music in the popular culture of North American society during the last 50 years. An easy-to-use database of more than 500 multimedia files (activities, texts, biographies, images, recordings and videos) can be used in numerous learning activities.

Foundations of Effective Tutoring

Foundations of Effective Tutoring is a tutor training program developed as a reference for peer tutors and their trainers. Materials on the site include learning guides, videos and activity guides. The information is thematically organized and deals with student-centered issues such as active listening, learning styles, enabling borderline students to take charge of their own learning and more.

Coming Soon to a Screen Near You!

The eTCALS

The CCDMD is in the final stages of the new adaptive English-as-a-Second-Language placement test which will use a constantly expanding bank of questions. Fine tuning simulations will be going on over the next few months, and the eTCALS will be available as of autumn.

Kepler

An updated version of the software Kepler, to be available in French and in English, is currently under development in partnership with Cegep@distance.This software simulates an astronomical observatory and allows the virtual telescope to be equipped with various accessories such as a chronometer, micrometer, photometer and a spectrograph.The student or amateur astronomer will be able to relive great astronomical discoveries from Antiquity to the present and experience the use of scientific method. Barring unforseen difficulties, a summer release date is planned.

Spirex

Spirex is a program designed to help students of organic chemistry interpret infrared spectrum emissions in order to identify the characteristics of an organic compound. It has an interactive method to interpret absorption patterns through a chain of logic that is inherent to this kind of analysis. It is currently available online in French.

So this is our harvest! We hope that you can partake of our IT integration abundance to nourish your students' success!