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This article is about the computer skills of both students and teachers in Québec's education system. To introduce the methodology, it begins with a review of empirical studies on the computer skills of future teachers in Québec. The results of a survey on information search habits and the future teachers' sense of self-efficacy in relation to their computer skills is then presented. The article concludes with an analysis of obstacles to developing these skills.
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AbstractThe goal of this paper is to provide a geographic perspective on the distribution patterns of cinemas in Canada and to focus on some of the features that underlie their spatial organization. This analysis is based on the development of a geographic and evolutionary database of Canadian cinema centres. Listed in the database are the sociodemographic profiles of the district locations of each movie theatre. These locations are defined in terms of their service areas. Analysis of the data illustrates the different spatial strategies of Canada's largest cinema chains, both nationally and locally. While the spatial distribution of the cinemas of certain chains is relatively even across the country, it is more regional and local in others. Concerning the socioeconomic profiles of district locations, some chains tend to prefer high-income areas; others favour lower-income neighbourhoods. An in-depth analysis of sociodemographic profiles, on the other hand, does not reveal any significant difference in terms of cinema accessibility.
Keywords: Salle de cinéma, aire de service, SIG, analyse spatiale, données sociodémographiques, Canada, Movie theater, service area, GIS, spatial strategies, sociodemographic profiles, Canada
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The archive is not a place for the undifferentiated storage of the past: the political role of the archive is to select what to include as the past and what to discard, in order to regulate the future. These selections are prescribed by laws and regulations, but they are also determined by the archival techniques available for inscription, storage, indexing and access. The author analyses the technological selections of two ages of the archive. The first age is that of the intermedial archive emerging after the end of the text archive monopoly, with the gramophone, photograph and, in particular, film. The gaps and contradictions resulting from this configuration of media are investigated through a discussion of the media set-up of Albert Kahn's Les archives de la planète (1908-1931). The second age is that of the digital archives, and the digitization of analogue material, again with Les archives de la planète as an example. Instead of understanding these ages of archival technologies as autonomous and separate, the author argues that they should be approached as “superimposed” archival regimes in order to tease out the current interrelations between analogue and digital archives.