News 2014

A savoury, flavourful, sensational launch

April 28, 2014
On April 25, the CCDMD had the pleasure of taking part in the launch of the textbook entitled Apprécier les qualités organoleptiques des aliments (assessing the sensory qualities of foods), designed and written by Suzanne Léger, a retired teacher from the dietary techniques department of Collège Montmorency. The event took place at the [...]

Brazilian delegation at the CCDMD

April 24, 2014
On April 16, the CCDMD welcomed a delegation from Brazil as part of a training course offered by Cégep@distance to the São Paulo national industrial learning service (SENAI-SP – Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem Industrial). Interim Director Cathie Dugas was on hand to greet three representatives from SENAI-SP: Laercio Ferreira da Silva, [...]

Videos of AQPC-CCDMD lectures now online

March 24, 2014
Two lectures presented at Dawson College are now available online in The World of Images. The first lecture, “Teaching strategies that improve student learning,” deals with practical strategies based in socio-constructivism. The second, “From Competency to Evaluation… and the STEPS in Between,” focuses on student performance [...]

New materials to help students improve their writing in French

March 24, 2014
The CCDMD is offering a new tool to help correct student writing. Designed for teachers in all disciplines, the Outil d’aide à la correction: Targets five categories of mistakes Offers advice on writing comments on students’ texts Provides information about the new French spelling rules The Outil is offered as a PDF tabloid and [...]

News about the CCDMD Call for Projects

March 24, 2014
The deadline for submitting a proposal under the CCDMD Call for Projects was March 7. This year, 19 projects were submitted by teachers in Québec’s Francophone and Anglophone colleges: 15 in French and 4 in English, from 15 different colleges. Representatives from the colleges, the Ministère de l'Éducation, du Loisir et du Sport (MELS) [...]

Launch of the 2014 CEGEP Francojeu!

February 27, 2014
The CCDMD is continuing a tradition with the eighth edition of an online contest for the Francofête. This year’s Francojeu des cégeps promotes the French language by showcasing 10 words chosen for the Francofête of the Office québécois de la langue française (OQLF). For the first time, the contest will be a questionnaire on Facebook [...]

Two new websites in the CCDMD catalogue

February 26, 2014
The CCDMD has two new educational resources to offer: the Infants and Toddlers: Video Observation Bank and FutursProfs: Apprendre à enseigner autrement websites. Infants and Toddlers: Video Observation Bank offers a bank of 200 video sequences on young children in daycare situations in Québec. It serves as an observation lab for students [...]

UNAC lecture on environmental problems

February 20, 2014
The CCDMD would like to invite you to a lecture called Les problèmes environnementaux de la planète terre: Le passé, le présent et le futurs. The lecture will be presented by François Roberge, a chemical engineer with a master’s degree in applied sciences specializing in chemical engineering and the environment from Polytechnique [...]

Successful launch of Activité-projet website

February 20, 2014
On February 13, the Activité-projet website was launched in the Cégep régional de Lanaudière library in L’Assomption. Céline Perrault, a professor in the department of Early Childhood Education Techniques, and Danièle Pelletier presented their project to several dozen friends and colleagues who came to the event. A number of the [...]

Launch of Intervention psychosociale website

February 12, 2014
The CCDMD had the pleasure of taking part in the launch of the Intervention psychosociale website on February 5. With some fifty friends and colleagues, Nancy Daigle and Sylvain Lavertu, both professors of special education techniques at the Cégep de Sainte-Foy, enthusiastically presented the project they created with the help of CCDMD [...]

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