Students in the province of
Ontario have many online resources available that they can access at school and
at home. Every student in grades 7-10
has access to “Homework Help”,
which provides access to free math
tutors, math specific tools and resources. The tutors are available every
Sunday-Thursday 5:30pm – 9:30pm ET.
The Provincial e-Learning
Strategy provides Ontario school boards, schools and students with access to
valuable software, resources, tools and support. Every student from
Kindergarten to Grade 12 is able to benefit from blended learning in
a safe and customized environment. “With today’s competitive economy and ever
changing technology, it is more important than ever that students have
unlimited opportunities to learn and achieve”.
An overview of the technical
components that make up the Provincial e-Learning Strategy:
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A digital teaching and virtual learning environment.
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A digital library of Ontario curriculum-tagged
resources.
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An online community for teachers and school boards in
the provincially-funded education system.
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A tool that lets school boards share seats in secondary
school e-learning credit courses across the province through digital
reservations.
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In addition to the
provincial strategy, each school board offers their own library of digital
resources. The London District Catholic School Board (LDCSB), for example, offers unlimited
access to Infobase
– Learn360. Learn360 provides access to more than 150,000 multimedia assets.
The reliable, authoritative resources support
the K–12 academic curriculum and provide flexible options for accessing
educational content whether in school, at the library, or at home. Students and
teachers can access full videos, video clips, audio books, speeches, music
tracks, images, encyclopedia articles, historical timelines, science
experiments, historical maps, math activities, and science diagrams. LDCSB
students also have access to the following databases:
EBSCO provides an
online research solution consisting of databases, ebooks and ejournals
to enhance the physical collections of our school libraries. It
best supports the English, Science and Social Science courses.
CANSIM is Statistics Canada's key socioeconomic database.
Updated daily, CANSIM provides fast and easy access to a large range of the
latest statistics available in Canada.
GALE (CENGAGE Learning) features
full text articles from over 30 online periodical databases including CPI.Q
(Canadian periodicals) and Chilton's library, as well
as numerous ebooks, crossing the curriculum.
Teen Health & Wellness provides
intermediate and senior students with nonjudgmental and straightforward
self-help support. It includes topics on diseases, drugs, alcohol,
nutrition, mental health, suicide, bullying, green living, and financial
literacy, all of which are covered in the curriculum.
The list of resources made available
to students is endless. I find that students enjoy using BookFLIX, Raz-Kids, Learning A-Z, Career Cruising,
and Mindomo. If a student or parent does
not know the appropriate login information they should contact their child’s
teacher and/or school.
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| Students using Raz-Kids |
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