Top Tools for Teaching and Learning

This is a fantastic resource for anyone searching for useful I.T. tools to use in their teaching. All tools have been voted on by learning professionals and most include reviews and suggestions for use. You can search for tools by category making it is easy to locate the best applications for your needs.

Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009

News from Other Colleges

News from IT Partners

Free Lunch and Learn Online Activity (in French)

Les dîners-causeries de l’APOP…
reprise des activités, saison Hiver et Printemps 2010

le profil tic de l’enseignant, une nouvelle compétence «transversale »?

Mardi le 16 février, de 12 h à 13 h 30 sur APOP_enligne

Des travaux d’élaboration et d’intégration du Profil TIC des étudiants au collégial sont actuellement en cours dans plusieurs établissements ou programmes. À coup sûr, ces travaux amplifieront le besoin des enseignants de mieux définir leurs habiletés TIC et de prévoir des stratégies de perfectionnement avec les TIC. Les exigences associées au processus d’appropriation des technologies doivent-elles être considérées comme faisant partie de la pratique professionnelle enseignante? Comment est-il possible de gérer la déstabilisation et la mobilisation entraînées par le développement exponentiel de l’environnement technologique dans un contexte des activités d’enseignement et d’apprentissage? La maîtrise des compétences reliées à l’utilisation des TI à des fins pédagogiques est-elle devenue un incontournable pour les enseignants de ce XXIe siècle? Continue reading »

Free Lunch and Learn Activity Offered Online to All Teachers

APOP First NetTalk Live: Come learn how to share …knowledge

Web 2.0 as a medium for sharing knowledge
Presented by Enrique Ruiz Velasco Sanchez, PhD
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
12:00 Noon to 13:30 PM on APOP_online

At our first NetTalk event, Dr. Enrique Velasco will be on site from UNAM University in Mexico with his students (college teachers) to present his experience on using Web 2.0. He will explain collaborative knowledge building, why it is important, and how we can facilitate it by integrating widely available Web 2.0 tools in our classes. Dr. Velasco will give us many real-life examples how he uses these tools like wikis, blogs, Wikimedia, YouTube, Teamviewer and more to enhance learning.

Dr. Velasco, a member of the Mexican Academy of Science, is a graduate of Université de Montréal in Educational Technology. He teaches workshops and seminars to teachers to integrate TIC in the teaching.

Training on how to use the online VIA Platform prior to participating in an event is also available at no charge. Remember all English APOP online events will be available to you this year FREE of charge.

APOP’s online community is pleased to welcome you on board. You will meet new colleagues in your field online from other colleges and from other departments. You will gain access to expertise and experience from your peers, have access to the development of ICT internationally, and learn about new tools for teaching.

APOP would be thrilled to receive your suggestions or questions at itactivites@apop.qc.ca .

To participate to this first APOP Lunch and Learn, you can subscribe by using the online registration form.

Marielle Beauchemin

Project Manager – English-Language Division

APOP

itactivities@apop.qc.ca

514 744 7500 ext. 7258

CCDMD Call for Projects

Funded by MELS, the Collegial Centre for Educational Materials Development (CCDMD) produces professional-quality educational materials for teachers and students throughout the Quebec college system.

The English section of the CCDMD has been developing a wide variety of educational materials since 2005, including manuals, websites, software and DVDs. The CCDMD also supports translation projects to adapt existing print and computer-based materials to the Quebec milieu.

The yearly call for projects is available on the CCDMD website . The deadline for applications is March 5, 2010. For further information, or for assistance in preparing an application, please contact Marleigh Greaney, I.T. Pedagogical Advisor, by email at greaneym@vaniercollege.qc.ca or by phone at extension 7848.

LEA User Guide

The Network of IT Reps has recently produced a LEA User Guide. The Guide is available in both English and French. If after consulting the Guide, you have any questions, please let me know.

LEA User Guide

Guide d’utilisation LEA

CCDMD Call for Projects 2010

Deadline: March 5, 2010

Vanier College currently has several projects being funded by the CCDMD. Several members of the French Department are working on a project to help nursing students and others improve their French skills and better prepare for the mandatory French exam required for licensing in Quebec . We also have one teacher from E.C.E. working on producing a free bank of web-based videos of infants and toddlers recorded in natural, authentic and quality settings. Finally, we have a team from the Nursing Department working on an online supplement aimed at helping first year Nursing students develop essential study skills.

Do you have a project in mind? If so, … Continue reading »

ProfwebExpresso – Sign Up!

Every Monday the Profweb Team sends out a bulletin highlighting some of the new content on the site. This includes links to the Animaweb news column as well as to any new stories or reports. You will read about how other teachers in the cegep network are using IT with their students. You will also be notified of any new reports detailing the use of a particular technology such as discussion forums. To receive this bulletin, go to http://www.profweb.qc.ca/en/profwebexpresso/subscription/index.html
to sign up.  Enjoy!

“World of Images” – CCDMD Project

“World of Images” is a new website devoted to sharing photographs. The photographs can be used free of charge for educational purposes, as long as the source is cited. Continue reading »