Joshua Chalifour @jc@scholar.social

Just noticed that the Concordia (where I work) University's Centre for Teaching and Learning has put up a variety of alternate suggestions for faculty that had originally planned proctored exams https://concordia.ca/offices/ctl/moving-courses-online/transition/online-assessment.html - nice resource to consider.

Some privacy concerns about online test proctoring/invigilating are obvious on the surface and maybe can be mitigated but this article goes into much deeper problems that I haven't seen as much discussion of. This is an important read right now! https://hybridpedagogy.org/our-bodies-encoded-algorithmic-test-proctoring-in-higher-education/

Students (or anyone), in a situation where you need to do more deep reading on a screen right now than normal... it might be a struggle. This Reddit thread has some good tips to help: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskAcademia/comments/frac5o/how_do_you_manage_to_read_deeply_from_a_screen/

There is a large, open dataset of #COVID19 research made available by the Allen Institute for AI. Here's the link for background info on the data and how to get it: https://pages.semanticscholar.org/coronavirus-research (CORD-19)

Pleasant

Amateur des efforts de Paul Otlet ? peut-être la visioconférence et lnternet? en 1934 https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/les-origines-de-l-internet-en-europe/QQ-RRh0A?hl=fr

Beware of #COVID_19 misinformation. Discern authoritative sources... reputable medical, scientific, or with dedication to public well-being, etc. Such as the World Health Organization page busting myths: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/advice-for-public/myth-busters or the Canadian gov page https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/2019-novel-coronavirus-infection.html

It's time to choose our national lichen! Go vote, Canada. Info is here https://nature.ca/en/about-us/museum-news/news/press-releases/vote-national-lichen-project-led-canadian-museum-nature-rai and vote here: http://nature.ca/lichenvote

This week of 23 Feb is also #FreedomToRead Week, which is intended to promote #FreedomOfExpression find out more here: https://www.freedomtoread.ca/freedom-to-read-week
#FTRWeek

It's #FairDealingWeek 2020 (24 - 28 February). Fair dealing copyright exception enables people to use copyrighted works for certain purposes (like research or educational use) w/o requiring special permission from the copyright holder. Find out more https://fair-dealing.ca -- #FairDealing

One of the coolest #library displays I've seen: with my son at the #Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ). I walked right past but at my son's eye-level, he spotted it. Just in the stacks, a little projector hides behind some cut-out books and projects ghosts onto this display, which appear to glow.

Explanation of where two new Canadian government considerations unfold for the future communications, digital culture, privacy rights, etc.

https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/february-2020/feds-faced-with-two-visions-for-future-of-communications/

Over the holidays, I read Olga Tokarczuk's book, Flights. I loved how it played with time, historicity, through the scopes and structures of its characters. Anyway, that's just a bit to encourage people to check it out.