A must read: Clay Shirky’s verbose and well argued post on “Why I just asked my students to put their laptops away”. Clay Shirky is an author and academic interested in digital and social media. In the same line of thought, I really liked this podcast (in French) of Montréal tech journalist and consultant Martin […] Lire la suite
I really enjoyed this short clip from the good people at Educause about 4 ideas to reshape higher ed: [vimeo 105581244 w=500 h=281] This is the gist of the talk: I also really enjoyed this paper about three possible futures for higher ed: one where universities are either virtual or blended; one where digital technology […] Lire la suite
According to the Quuen’s Gazette: A group of Ontario universities have collaborated together to create MyGradSkills.ca, a free online professional skills training website that’s tailored to graduate students’ distinct experience. Funded by the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities through the Productivity and Innovation Fund, the site cultivates skills and abilities needed to thrive both […] Lire la suite
Beyond being a simple object of desire, the announced Apple Watch will be in classrooms around the world soon enough, as Rebecca Koening from the Chronicle of Higher Education points out. I love some of the comments made by the experts she interviews, in particular Teresa Fishman, director of the International Institute for Academic Integrity […] Lire la suite
A collague passed on this interesting article by Andrew Duffy from The Ottawa Citizen dated August 30, 2014, titled “The State of StatsCan Survey“. Mr Duffy provides important information about our national statistical agency. Lire la suite
I really like this award-winning poster presented at a recent Library Assessment conference by Dana Thomas and Weina Wang titled “Evaluating Library Contribution to Student Success” (see also this pic on the conference’s Twitter feed). They obtained data from the registrars office and mapped it out to usage data of various library services for undergraduate […] Lire la suite
These links were all tabs on my browser I had intended to read today but productive work got in the way. I’m pasting them here so that I can read them on the train this evening… AI, Robotics, and the Future of Jobs http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/08/06/future-of-jobs/ Guide de gestion d’un projet de numérisation http://www.crepuq.qc.ca/IMG/pdf/Guide_de_gestion_d_un_projet_de_numerisation_-_Juillet_2014.pdf Digital legal deposit […] Lire la suite
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The New Media Corporation (NMC), in collaboration with the University of Applied Sciences (HTW) Chur, Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) Hannover, and ETH-Bibliothek Zurich, announces the publication of the NMC Horizon Report: 2014 Library Edition (PDF, 56 pages). This report outlines the technicological changes as well as the solvable, difficult and wicked challenges facing libraries in the next 5+ […] Lire la suite
This is a worksheet I prepared for a presentation about creating table of contents in MS Word. The structured text is below, but you can also use these versions : – Using MS Word (2007) with Style (PDF) – Using MS Word (2007) with Style (.doc) Using microsoft word with style Outline Creating a table of […] Lire la suite