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  • Monday May 31 2010 Nicholas Walker (Cégep Ahuntsic) Moodle Correction Perfection Moodle can do a better job providing corrective feedback on writing errors than hand coding on MS Word through a repurposing of the standard glossary.
  • Tuesday May 25 2010 Stéphane Gagné (Cégep du Vieux Montréal) Sharpening Problem-solving Skills for Architectural Practice Students develop their competence at solving architectural construction problems through the medium of a virtual office which provides an insight into the profession that they have chosen.
  • Monday May 17 2010 Denise Brend (Collège Dawson) The Making of: Le Guide Français-Anglais de la Terminologie des Services à la Personne A lot of social workers can speak both French and English, but don't speak them both in a nuanced way, appropriately using jargon and slang. Denise Brend has written The English French Guide to Human Services Technology to help resolve this problem. The book was made possible through the development of data processing software that now makes this kind of resource in other fields an exciting possibility as well!
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Moodle Correction Perfection

Monday May 31 2010 - Nicholas Walker - Cégep Ahuntsic Moodle can do a better job providing corrective feedback on writing errors than hand coding on MS Word through a repurposing of the standard glossary.

Sharpening Problem-solving Skills for Architectural Practice

Tuesday May 25 2010 - Stéphane Gagné - Cégep du Vieux Montréal Students develop their competence at solving architectural construction problems through the medium of a virtual office which provides an insight into the profession that they have chosen.

The Making of: Le Guide Français-Anglais de la Terminologie des Services à la Personne

Monday May 17 2010 - Denise Brend - Collège Dawson A lot of social workers can speak both French and English, but don't speak them both in a nuanced way, appropriately using jargon and slang. Denise Brend has written The English French Guide to Human Services Technology to help resolve this problem. The book was made possible through the development of data processing software that now makes this kind of resource in other fields an exciting possibility as well!

When not all your students are even close to equal – Surviving Multi-level ESL Courses!

Monday May 10 2010 - Gina Lavine - Collège Laflèche ESL teachers are facing new program-related classes filled with students whose English abilities vary from perfect bilingualism to a working vocabulary in double digits. IT has allowed Gina Lavine to come up with some innovative solutions to this problem.

The Dragon in the Classroom: Opening Our Doors to an Increased Use of Technology

Monday May 3 2010 - Laura King - Cégep André-Laurendeau Students with learning disabilities can have difficulties in a variety of domains. While ICTs do not provide the answer to all of the concerns of students with LDs, they do make a huge difference in making students' lives easier and their academic work more efficient and successful.

Migrating from WebCT to Moodle with Regular Expressions

Monday April 26 2010 - Melvin Shantz - Cégep Ahuntsic With Mel Shantz's college's decision to change its course management system (CMS) from WebCT to Moodle, hours of preparation time were in danger of being lost unless an efficient method of migrating quizzes to the new CMS was found.

Creating Great Online English Tutors

Monday April 19 2010 - Gina Lavine - Collège Laflèche Gina Lavine and Lucie Cantin, both teachers of ESL respectively at Collège Lafleche and Collège Ellis, as well as Mariane Gazaille, a professor of second language instruction at UQTR developed a cross-level tutoring program using the VIA Telecommunication Platform to pair future ESL teachers at the university level with college students to advance their mastery of the English language.

Foundations of Effective Tutoring

Monday April 12 2010 - Jeannine Ryser - Cégep John Abbott In many colleges and universities across the country, peer tutoring provides a corner-stone to academic support services. 'Foundations of Effective Tutoring' is on online resource developed and produced by the CCDMD (Centre Collegial de Developpement de Materiel Didactique) and currently contains five modules, between two and three hours each, designed to help develop a solid set of competencies for students to effectively tutor their peers.  

The Writing Centre Writes a Page Online

Tuesday April 6 2010 - Faye Trecartin - Cégep John Abbott The Writing Centre at John Abbott College is a service offered to students to help acquire the skills required to successfully organize their thinking on a given subject into a coherent flow of logical observations that are regarded as good writing in our society. One reason for the popularity of centre's online tutoring service is that a lot of students can go online when they can't fit face-to-face tutoring into their schedules.

Technology in the Gym?

Monday March 29 2010 - Laura Morrison - Cégep John Abbott Recently, an initiative was made at John Abbott College to standardize all fitness tests within the school and make them available to students on line. The JAC Physical Education Department's foray into information technology was completed by software developed by the CCDMD, Resistance Training.
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