With ViewStat users can produce time series based on statistics produced by view.brussels on unemployment and employment opportunities in the Brussels’ Region. They can also view these data in the form of pivot tables that take customized variables into account such as place of residence (municipalities in the Brussels Region), age brackets, education level, etc.). More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. BestoftheWeb: My Most Useful Tools
If you were introducing someone to the world of the web and blogging, you wouldn't go far wrong following this post. I wouldn't call them 'folks' though - this is no great criticism, just a peccadillo, that it just sounds weird to me when people write 'folks' when they mean 'people'. More...
Jeff Gold, Roy Stripling and Michal Kurlaender describe a program that encourages professors to use tools offering specifics about the academic trajectories of their students to help facilitate those students' paths to a college degree. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. One Tool Short of Fifty
Alan Levine comes up with (almost) fifty ways to tell a Web 2.0 story. He writes, "At least 2/3 of these tools I had never heard of, and now I am convinced there are more, many more out there... 36 of the 49 tools offered embed code- cut and paste code to put the media into other web pages. This is astounding!" More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Collaboration Tools and Web 2.0 - The Video
I'm doing a promotion review this week. It just sucks the life out of me. So I'll keep today's newsletter short. This is a very bad video of a presentation I gave by videoconference earlier this year. Here are the slides on the presentation page for this video. For some reason, the video was clipped (I have no idea what happened) - so I added some footage of a cat and then begin at about slide 9. I hope you find it useful. Stephen Downes, Google Video October 5, 2007 [Link] [Tags: Newsletters, Conferencing, Web 2.0, Video]. More...
L’intérêt actuellement porté à cet avis du CESE par le Plan National Action Cœur de Ville ou encore l’Agence Nationale pour la Rénovation Urbaine montre que les pouvoirs publics tendent à s’approprier l’agriculture urbaine. En tant que rapporteurs, nous continuons notre travail de promotion de cet avis et de ses recommandations auprès des parties prenantes et décideurs publics.
Cependant, il nous semble important de souligner qu’un travail d’information et de sensibilisation, relayé par de nombreuses fédérations associatives, reste encore nécessaire pour que cet outil devienne la norme, notamment dans les règles d’urbanisme et la planification urbaine. Plus...
Simple, précis, fiable et transparent, l’Index de l’égalité professionnelle entre les femmes et les hommes a été conçu pour mettre fin aux inégalités entre les femmes et les hommes dans le monde du travail. En effet, malgré le principe « à travail égal, salaire égal » qui est inscrit dans la loi, la rémunération des femmes reste en moyenne inférieure de 9% à celle des hommes. Plus...
So many faculty have approached me lately and said that they have been asked to teach a hybrid or online course. More...
By Viggo Stacey. A new tool helping universities increase enrolments, by connecting prospective students with current ones and harnessing the power of social media, has been launched in the UK – and is citing 1 in 4 conversion rates. More...
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