Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Hybrid Delivery in Voc. Ed.


This hybrid training offered at Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board is a new approach to delivering an individualized vocational program, unlike individualized classroom instruction; it is delivered through the Internet. The total duration of the course is 735 hours distributed as follows:
  • 420 hours online
  • 210 hours in person (at the CDC Pont-Viau)
  • 105 hours of internship


The essential part of the course is done online for students geographically distant, training is delivered during set time periods. The online training environment includes tools replicating the interaction of a classroom. The student has direct contact with the teacher, even if he or she is not physically in the classroom. The student must engage in training for 15 hours minimum per week.
The face-to-face part of the training is 210 hours in total and will takes place at the CDC Pont-Viau (6 hours per week). Meetings with teachers and other students will give an opportunity to do simulation exercises, practice software and make summative and formative assessments.


The internship period of 105 hours and is carried out in the workplace, with the supervision of a teacher.

Wednesday, September 23, 2015

GOOGLE SUMMIT 2015

Google Summit in Rosemère
             qc.gafesummit.com/2015/

Two-day high-intensity event focuses on deploying, integrating, and using Google Apps for Education (and other Google tools) to promote student learning in K-12 and higher education.
The Summit includes two keynote presentations, 8 breakout sessions, a demo slam competition and a closing capstone session. Participants will be able to attend beginner through advanced sessions on uses of Google Apps in the classroom.

Monday, September 14, 2015

5th Moodle Moot Canada in Montréal!



If you are using Moodle, or planning to use it as content management, this is the best event in town to learn about an Open Source tool for producing modular internet-based courses.

Thursday, September 10, 2015

RÉCIT-VT mandate

The mandate of RÉCIT-VT has four components:

  1. Organize and provide training related to ICT;
  2. Support projects that integrate techno-pedagogy;
  3. Ensure a quality educational technology monitoring;
  4. Foster a network culture among stakeholders of vocational training.

Welcome to the RÉCIT-VT Blog!



What is RÉCIT?
RÉCIT is a network focused on the development of students' skills through the integration of information and communications technology (ICT). It is mainly through training, support and guidance of teachers RÉCIT realizes that this mandate while developing a culture of network and sharing. This is a structure that has about 120 contacts distributed in:

  • 71 local services to the general education of youth (1 school board service and 1 for private educational institutions);
  • 17 regional services to the general adult education (1 Service by administrative region and one for the English-speaking community);
  • 12 national services which provide special support:in connection with a learning area of ​​the Québec Education Program (arts, professional and personal development, languages, mathematics, science and technology, social sciences and integrating project);or for targeted school groups (special education, early childhood education, adult general education, vocational training and services to the Anglophone community).

RÉCIT is financially supported by the Ministère de l'Éducationde l'Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche (MEESR). School boards (Riverside School Board in the case of Voc. Ed.) will manage resource persons RÉCIT-VT (Tami Belhadj) and determine priorities for action. The MEESR also contributes to the development of network culture, promoting peer learning and sharing of expertise. This blog is an example of the network culture as it promotes the sharing of resources developed by the various Vocational Education actors in the 9 anglophone schoolboards.