For over a year now, young people of homosexual and bisexual orientation, as well as their family, friends, teachers and those around them, have had access to a portal which is unique in Canada and provides information on a wide variety of subjects: family life, homophobia, religion, student and professional life, and community activities. Born of the inspiration of its founder Marc-Olivier Ouellet, a student in computer engineering at McGill University, to break the isolation of young gays and lesbians in Québec, the Internet site AlterHeros.com is presented as a unifying project and has quickly become a major reference for young homosexuals and anyone else with questions on sexual orientation. Visited by over 400,000 people from 130 different countries during its first nine months in activity, the AlterHeros.com site also offers a search engine providing access to a bank of reference texts in English and French. Those who so desire can consult a network of specialists who will answer their questions. Visitors can also communicate with their peers and in turn help those in difficult situations.
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Teaching is often described as a vocation. In the case of seven BA students in preschool education and elementary education at the Université du Québec à Rimouski, this is certainly a truism. After remarking a shortfall in the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in teaching during their training, these students decided to launch the Péd@linux project to offer pedagogical training on the integration of ICT. Using recycled computers and the Linux operating system and related software, they created different pedagogical scenarios in order to help teachers demystify the computer world. Last January, following several achievements in schools and organizations around Québec City and Lévis, Péd@linux, in collaboration with Horizon Cosmopolite, exported their expertise to Senegal. For six weeks, the seven members of Péd@linux shared both their knowledge of computer science and their culture, going so far as to build a library filled with books imported from Québec.
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