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1. Francophonie sans frontières - Exploring Diversity in Francophone Culture
2. Department of Integrated Studies in Education - Occasional Seminar Series
3. Banner Training
4. Letters of Intent for the Regroupment Stratégique
5. National Science Foundation Career Award

Francophonie sans frontières - Exploring Diversity in Francophone Culture

A professional development and cultural experience for teachers of French as a second or foreign language and in immersion contexts will take place at:

McGill University August 12 – 16, 2002

This summer institute is the result of a truly collaborative Design Team comprised of Faculty from DISE and the Department of Languages and Translation. Members of the Design Team are: Marie Claude Beauchamp, Hervé de Fontenay, Maricruz Garcia-Rejon, Genevieve Leidelinger, Roy Lyster, Jacques Rebuffot, Louise Savoie, and Sylvia Sklar.

Please check out our website www.francophonie.mcgill.ca Suggestions for “hotlinks” will be very much appreciated. Please send your suggestions to sylvia.sklar@mcgill.ca

Sylvia Sklar
Office of Professional Developement

Dr. Olga Marino, formerly Director, Laboratory of Research and Development of Computers for Education (LIDIE), University of Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia

Education for the Knowledge Society:The role of information and telecommunication technologies

Wednesday, February 20, 2002
12:00 noon-1:30 p.m.
Education 624

Educational Technology: Shaping policy, changing practice?
Thursday, February 21, 2002
4:00-5:30 p.m.
Education 233 (Faculty Lounge)

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Dr. Michael Hoechsmann, Executive Director and Director of Education Young People’s Press (YPP)

Navigating the Digital Divides:Cultures, Histories, Communities, Literacies
Wednesday, March 6, 2002
12:00 noon-1:30 p.m.
Education 233 (Faculty Lounge)

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Dr. Laura Winer, Assistant Professor, McGill Centre for University Teaching and Learning

Integrating Technology in Teacher Education
Thursday, March 14, 2002
1:00-2:30 p.m.
Education 233 (Faculty Lounge).

Kathleen McElroy
Department of Integrated Studies in Education

Minerva - Banner
Student Information SystemTraining

Are you currently working with Student Records?

The training courses are already in progress. If you have not registered yet, please do so as soon as possible.

Minerva is the name used to represent all administrative
computer systems at McGill that access student, employee, and financial information for the University. Banner software (PC and Web applications) is the new tool for viewing and updating this information. For Student Records, this replaces legacy systems including IMS, CATS,MARS, and SATURN.

The following courses will be offered. Note: Courses related to grade submission and other student record procedures will be offered later in 2002.

Student Navigation and Address Query

Student Navigation, Course Catalog and Class Schedule for
Registration

Student Academic Program Information and Course Registration

Please see the Minerva Information Web site under the topic “Training” for details about who should attend, course descriptions, schedules, and registration forms:
www.is.mcgill.ca/minerva

Christine Zilberman
Faculty Administrator

Please note that the Letters of Intent for the Regroupement Stratégique, 2002-2003 initiative, are due on April 19, 2002 They will be available on their website as of March 1; http://www.fcar.qc.ca/nateq/fonds.htm

Please submit Letter of Intent to Helene Gagnon-Toney by April 2, 2002, the Faculty deadline.

Congratulations to one of our former students Dr. Roger Azevedo and his supervisor Dr. Suzanne Lajoie. Roger graduated from the Department of Education and Counselling Psychology in 1997. He has just received notice that he has been awarded as Principal Investigator a grant of $615,663.00 from the National Science Foundation Career Award program

Title: The Role of Self-Regulated Learning in Students' Understanding of Science with Hypermedia

With this proposed NSF Career grant, he seeks to explore these questions through research that forges new directions in the area of students' self-regulated learning of two complex science topics (the circulatory system and ecological systems) with hypermedia environments (CircSysWeb and RiverWeb). In doing so, the research goals will be: (1) To scale-up our research on self-regulated learning across developmental levels and contexts; (2) To examine the role of self- and co-regulation during individual and collaborative learning with hypermedia environments; (3) To examine the effectiveness of co-construction of goals (between teacher and students) during learning of science with hypermedia environments; (4) To examine the effectiveness of strategy instruction training in fostering students' self- and co-regulated learning with hypermedia; and, (5) To examine the effectiveness of adaptive web-based hypermedia environments in detecting, modeling, and fostering students' self- and co-regulated learning of science.

Associate Dean Maguire
Academic Programs, Graduate Studies & Research