The CBC Archives

The CBC Digital Archives will allow you to locate video support for your curriculum. Search through the archives and locate a clip that you might use for your classroom program. Comment on which clip, and how you might use it!

The Ontario Educational Resource Bank (OERB)

The Ontario Educational Resource Bank, (the OERB), is a fabulous repository of online lessons and activities available to students and teachers.

Login to the site and search by grade, subject, or expectation.

Submit a comment if you find something suitable for your classroom situation and explain how you might use it!

Copyright Free Sites

We had a nice introduction to copyright and the importance of teaching our students to draw their own pictures, take their own photos, or use sites that are copyright free. Here is a list of some places to get resources for putting on your blog or wiki:

Free Images
•http://freeimages.com/
•Credit them as source
•If an image has a trademark, then permission must be sought

Free Stock Photos
•http://freestockphotos.com/
•Credit them as source

Microsoft Office Online
•http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx

Canadian Clipart – over 9000 images
•Licensed by the Ministry
•Request the download from the helpdesk


•Library websites
Gale Cengage (Knowledge Ontario)
Pics for Learning

Remove the Navigation Bar

To Remove the Navigation Bar from your Blog on Blogger follow these steps:

1. From the dashboard, click Layout.

2. From the template tab, click Edit Item

3. Scroll a few lines deown the html until you find the Template Style. After the template style statement, enter or paste - #navbar-iframe{display: none !important;}

Save the template

Online Stories

Click on the Storylineonline link and check out the site.

One strategy that can be used with online books is to have your students select a book at their level, and then do a Retell, Relate, and Reflect or Text to Text, Text to Self, and Text to World entry on the blog.

Brainstorm another strategy on how you could possibly use online books with your students!

E-Workshop

Click on eWorkshop and then click on the link to Active Learning - Technology

Then click on the Table of Contents and select one of the headings. Read the link and reflect upon the information.

• Today you will be asked to make personal
connections to the information you are
reading and viewing.
• Consider:
- Is this important? Why?
- Do you agree or disagree? Why?
- What is your opinion?
• Record your thoughts and share them online.

(http://www.accessola.com/osla/toolkit/Resources/Think%20Literacy%20-%20Group%20Roles.pdf)

Weblogg-ed

Search Weblogg-ed for an Educational Blog and respond to the following:


a. Record the Blog name:
b. Copy and paste the Blog URL here:
c. What information did you gain from this Blog?
d. What appeals to you about the layout of this Blog?