DAWSCON, the free software conference at Dawson College, is on as usual this year. The fifth annual conference for students and developers will be taking place virtually on Friday, Jan. 15, 2021. “This year, we’re going international because we can,” said organizer and Computer Science faculty member Ken Fogel. “It is really exciting having a…
Dawson’s French-language tutoring centre, CLÉO, is offering a new way to practice French and share québécois culture: The CLÉO Podcast. The podcast (balado en français) episodes are between five to 10 minutes and are offered on an array of interesting topics, including author Gabrielle Roy, filmmaker Denis Villeneuve and Expo 67. The first one was…
D News, Dawson’s biweekly web-based newsletter, turns 1 this month. The first issue was posted Nov. 12, 2019. The initiative was promoted by Director General Richard Filion, who wished to give the Dawson community a means of being informed. Growing value of D News “The analytics, feedback and participation suggest that D News has become…
A Dawson College team worked for months to transform Open House into a virtual event. “It was an amazing community effort during extremely isolating times,” said lead organizer Lucy Segal of the Communications Office. “It was an enormous challenge to pitch something completely new, but everyone was receptive and despite new measures and limitations, I…
The 60th anniversary season premiere of The Nature of Things hosted by David Suzuki on Nov. 6 features an action-filled documentary that captures the beginnings of a movement that is changing the world. Rebellion brings viewers to the front lines of the climate rebellion, including Dawson College on Sept. 26, 2019, the day before the…
The Student Services team conducted a huge outreach campaign during the week of Study Break, Oct. 13-16. About 60 employees contacted all 4,000 first-year full-time and part-time students, enrolled in the day programs, as well as Continuing Education and AEC programs. It was the first time the team has done an outreach operation of this…
While being online is not the ideal learning environment for students or teachers, there are positive things about the experience at Dawson College. “There is no better experience than teaching and learning in a live classroom setting,” said 3D Animation and Computer Generated Imagery teacher Raymon Fong. “I definitely miss the in-person engagement of the…
On March 13, Dawson College had 90 Zoom licenses and most people probably had never heard of the platform for virtual meetings. A month later, the College had 900 Zoom licenses and the platform had become part of the daily lives of students and employees. “Information Systems and Technology became the critical infrastructure for ensuring…
MONTREAL (Oct. 19, 2020) – The first-ever Virtual Open House of Dawson College begins Tuesday, Oct. 20 and runs through Sunday, Oct. 25. The experience will launch from the 2020 Open House landing page on the Dawson website: www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca/open-house For students considering applying to CEGEP for Fall 2021, Dawson will be offering: 22 technical programs…
Dawson College is featured in the Maclean’s 2021 Canadian Colleges Guidebook, which came out across Canada in September. You can now access the two features digitally: Dawson’s extraordinary vernissage season for the graduating students in six programs in Creative and Applied Arts was featured: These Dawson College students missed out on a live gallery show. So…
Last Modified: October 16, 2020
