Training and Professional Development Opportunities


Today’s post contains various training and PD opportunities which management and individuals from SRDC have asked me to share with you.

For Nanopore users

Oxford has moved this year’s London Calling event online – it will be free to attend, open to all and you can register your interest here.


JoVE videos

The following is a snip from a promotional email message from JoVE:

JoVE has received an incredible response to our offer of free JoVE Education resources to support remote learning initiatives globally. Whether you have taken us up on this offer already or plan to, we wanted to make you aware of new and additional content available to you.
We have fast tracked our planned content releases to add even more videos to JoVE Education:
· Additional JoVE Core Biology videos including Plant Biology - a new unit of 3 chapters focused on Plant Biology is being introduced alongside additional videos in Core Biology. Teach scientific fundamentals with this video library of simple, easy-to-understand video demonstrations.*Available Now*ff
· JoVE Core Social Psychology - isolate key concepts and bring the foundations of our social world to life. This video textbook can be used as a primary teaching resource or it can supplement other teaching materials. ​​​​​*Available Now*
· ​​​​​Lab Manual Chemistry - bring the lab home with comprehensive, curriculum-focused videos for introductory chemistry lab courses. *Available March 30th*
To set yourself up with free access to JoVE Education through June 15th, please simply create an account and you’ll be on your way.
 
  Get Instant Free Access

All of the JoVE content your institution has access to is fully accessible off-campus in a variety of ways that enable remote access. Need more help? Speak with our customer service team now about how to get your or your faculty’s classes setup.
 
  Schedule a Remote Access Setup Session

 

Learning French and other video content of interest

These suggestions by Axel Diederichsen were previously shared with PGRC but are likely of interest to all AAFC:'
In case you want to check out some French in the work hours at home, I share below some resources I use steadily with great benefit:

This serial « Francaise avec Pierre » is for not so hard and very well done : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv-6X9kaHnA

A very correct, very sharp person, with advice for all areas of life, including French, is Monsieur Johan Tekfak: https://www.francaisauthentique.com/videos/

Paul Taylor is not 100% French and I should perhaps not share this one. It is not for work hours:
: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgnxYiQesig

And here you have a choice of programmes with excellent quality in six languages! Many are not accessible from Canada, but several are. A taste of Europe, all for free :
https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/plus-vues/

My absolute favorite, and a must for AAFC :
La semaine verte : https://ici.radio-canada.ca/tele/la-semaine-verte/site/episodes

Very good but very advanced : https://www.franceculture.fr/theme/radio-france

And these series with history documentaries of which I watched already two thirds. It is addictive. They are very well done: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC38MST1QfDAypgrjjr6FPBw/videos?disable_polymer=1

Here is one more for the French, very useful and made in Canada: http://bdl.oqlf.gouv.qc.ca/bdl/

Comments

  1. Donna Frederick27 March 2020 at 13:39

    Here's another related article from Nature that discusses doing scientific work when working from home.
    https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00935-3?utm_source=Nature+Briefing&utm_campaign=a3fa6ff1ed-briefing-dy-20200327&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c9dfd39373-a3fa6ff1ed-44543225

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Metadata Update #20: April 2014 RDA updates

This blog post was originally intended to be posted in June 2014: I’ve finally gotten around to completing my reading about the April 2014 changes to RDA.   As is the case with reading the details of any descriptive cataloging standard, it’s enough to either give you a headache or put you to sleep if you try to focus on too much of the detail at once. I do have a few comments to make about this update.   First of all, many of the changes are, in my mind, just clarification of the points which help to bring metadata creation away from the world of trying to fit as much information as possible onto a little index card and into a complex international information environment.   For example, it is reinforced that for serials you don’t assume that users understand that “v.” stands for volume.   Instead, volume should be spelled out as such as should issue.   This does make sense in an international, multicultural and multi-generational environment.   Certainly, for many users “v”
Read more

U.S. Indigenous Literature Awards Webinar

The ALA has announced a free webinar on October 22nd:  The American Indian Youth Literature Awards For more information and to register, see this website:   http://www.ala.org/educationcareers/american-indian-youth-literature-awards-discussion-and-reflection If you are interested in the webinar but can't attend on the date and time, register for it and you will get a recording 7 days latter. This information was published on the ALA website: Thursday, 10/22/2020 12:00 PM-1:00 PM (Eastern) 11:00 AM-12:00 PM (Central) 10:00 AM-11:00 AM (Mountain) 9:00 AM-10:00 AM (Pacific) Indigenous stories are all around us, but fewer than 1% of books published for kids in the U.S. are by Indigenous writers.US publishers are overwhelmingly ignoring the contributions of 574 Tribal Nations. The American Indian Youth Literature Award winners and honor books celebrate literature by Native authors and illustrators with the world. Each year AILA awards honor books by authors from different tribes and cel
Read more

Metadata Update #24 : Metadata as part of the user experience

Sometimes I find a blog post that puts into words the sorts of things that I have been trying to find a way to state for myself.  Erin Leach has written a blog post called "On metadata and user experience " which gets to the heart of many things that I have been thinking about lately: http://unifiedlibraryscene.blogspot.ca/2015/03/on-metadata-and-user-experience.html Sometimes in libraries we worry about what our discovery interfaces look like, the sorts of experiences our patrons have using them and whether the colours are attractive or not but forget about the metadata and the metadata quality which are often critical in determining whether or not patrons can find resources in the collection. I certainly have heard librarians, who work outside of cataloguing and metadata, say that they think that the new discovery layers can somehow magically "fix" problems with metadata.  There seems to be a belief that technology magically repairs records and
Read more