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Voici quelques exemples de codes HTML qu’on peut ajouter dans un message.

Tapez : <b>bonjour</b>
Résultat : bonjour

Tapez : <em>salut</em>
Résultat : salut

Tapez : <u>à la prochaine</u>
Résultat : à la prochaine

Tapez : <ul>
<li>premier</li>
<li>deuxième</li>
<li>troisième</li>
<li>etc.</li>
</ul>

Résultat :

• premier
• deuxième
• troisième
• etc.

Si vous préférez une liste numérotée, changez <ul>
et </ul> à <ol> et </ol>

Tapez : <ol>
<li>premier</li>
<li>deuxième</li>
<li>troisième</li>
<li>etc.</li>
</ol>

Résultat :

1. premier
2. deuxième
3. troisième
4. etc.

Reading this account of a Canada Day well spent got me to thinking about the brownish delight of poutine. Here are a few reminiscinces:

• My first poutine at Ashton on la Grande Allée in Québec – to be honest, I didn’t know what to expect, but I was hooked. I’d go every few days and get “un sandwich club et un mini poutine.”
• Visiting a friend in la Pocatière and going to a local greasy spoon for a bite after shooting pool. I was introduced to la poutine italienne.
• The cantine at Université Sainte-Anne. This is more the association with the great people than with the food itself, but it was mighty good! And who can forget walking over the goldfish pond to get it?

Okay, so I have a bit of a problem with food, but you have to love a “cholesterol bomb” that is so uniquely Canadian.

Computers Make Sense According to Brain Research… But What do Students Think? – by By Miles Turnbull and Geoff Lawrence
I am presently stumbling my way through my FSL specialist course and I ran across this article about student attitudes toward the use of computers in the FSL classroom. It was interesting, though nothing was terribly surprising; most students enjoyed working with computers and wished that they could spend more time working with them.
What caught my attention was the fact that a small percentage of the students thought that computers helped them in their spoken French. Again, it’s not surprising, but I had never really thought about it. This is something I want to chew on for a bit. How do I use the computer to encourage oral participation?
I hope you’re not waiting for an answer, because I don’t know… yet. The topic I chose for my final project is the use of computers as a learning tool in the FSL classroom, so I’d better come up with something!

It’s the Collaboration, Stupid

Will Richardson has another writeup on the collaborative nature of wikis, weblogs, rss, etc. and how they can be applied in educational settings. He talks about the idea of “open” texts – ones which invite revision, sharing, and, I suppose, any other use that people may have for them. It is a very interesting idea.

I do agree with Tom Hoffman (see the Comments section) when he talks about how community authoring of a text in a wiki could be a very complex task, but even those of us who are embracing the newest of the new technologies are still looking at things with our own experience as the context. If you had told me ten years ago that I would be trying to learn how to use something called a wiki or a blog (still hate that word), I would have said, “Wuh-huh?” If we expose our students to the possibility of using these new technologies today, their literacy skills, along with their learning styles, may continue to evolve as our own have done through our generation.

Food for thought, and I just had lunch.