Structure and Content of the ICT Profile Space

Resources to Support the Promotion, Integration and Implementation of the ICT Profile

Students, teachers and other actors in colleges need resources to develop their skills and to integrate the ICT Profile in a course or in a program of studies. Many resources are available in colleges to support them. These resources are created to support teachers when planning the integration and implementation of the ICT Profile in a course or in a program of studies, to help pedagogical...

Sources of Inspiration and Mediagraphy

Important Note on Copyright

The three authors of the following articles have given their permission to freely use their content and this section of the ICT Profile includes plenty of integral excerpts or contents heavily inspired by these articles. To make this site more readable, with the permission of the authors, these passages are not referenced.

• The new ICT Profile for College Students: Developing Essential Skills
  Huguette Dupont, Lorraine...

Integrating the ICT Profile for Students

This section suggests to teachers ways to easily integrate ICT Profile skills in their courses. It also presents the required steps for an approach that allows the integration of all of the ICT Profile skills in a program of study. This section also looks at an institutional plan for the development of ICT skills of students as well as the role of all actors involved in the integration of the ICT Profile. Finally, you will also find in this section an overview of the integration of the...

Actors in the Process

A librarian or pedagogical technician (SMTE - Spécialiste en moyens et techniques d’enseignement), ICT counsellor and other actors working in each college may be asked to collaborate with teachers to participate in one or more steps towards the integration of the ICT Profile in a program. They can also be asked to support teachers individually in the integration of specific ICT skills in a course. But what is their role? Of course the answer can vary from one college to another, depending...

Recommended Websites

We would like to suggest websites worthy of interest and which are linked with the ICT Profile. The organizations behind those sites offer resources, tools and services to colleges. The resources from these organizations were judged pertinent for the ICT Profile and were catalogued, filed per category and associated, as the case may be, with skills from the ICT Profile. To find out how to access them from this web space, see the “Structure and Contents of the ICT Profile Space”...

ICT Profile Glossary

This glossary is a reference and a learning tool. It supports the understanding of concepts encountered while reading and helps in learning the ICT Profile for College Students vocabulary. You will find these words throughout the pages of this site dedicated to the ICT Profile, particularly in the detailed documentation on skills. This glossary will grow with the addition of content.

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About the ICT Profile

What is the ICT Profile?

The ICT Profile for College Students is a framework that teachers and colleges can rely on to help their students develop the informational, methodological, and technological skills required.

Rare is the college curriculum that does not involve searching for, processing and presentating information. The ICT Profile sets out an approach that allows these skills to be acquired within a single course or an entire program.

The ICT Profile...

Video Tutorials for the Mastering of Skill 3 Tasks

Each week, the IT Representatives Network (IT-REPS/REPTICs) offers brief tutorials in the form of video clips that were developed to support the development of ICT Profile abilities. These clips are specifically designed for students, but are useful to anyone that wants to improve their technology skills.

Please note that it is possible for you to embed the video clips from the ICT Profile for Students into your blog or web page. To do this:

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Integrating the ICT Profile in a course

Students in our colleges carry out more and more learning activities using ICT. Teachers integrate ICT in their teaching for many reasons: because the nature of their program naturally benefits from ICT, by pedagogical instinct that leads them to exploit their potential, for personal interest, etc. Teachers can benefit from...

Why the ICT Profile?

The ICT Profile for Students proposes structured learning steps that are informational, methodological and technological. It makes it easier to make the right choices and take the right action for integrating ICT in the classroom, and it supports the successful integration of ICT in programs...