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Resource Tools
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| ASCD |
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Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development |
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ASCD is a non-profit organization that represents over 175 000 educators all over the world. ASCD forms a community of educators who collaborate to address all aspects of teaching and learning, advocating sound policies and best practices to acheive the success of each learner.
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| Discovery Streaming |
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Discovery Streaming |
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Largest online digital media library with over 50,000 video segments; easy to use library organized by subject (math, social science, etc); create online media interactive quizzes, assignments and writing prompts; personalize content for any grade or subject. |
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| Creative Commons |
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Creative Commons |
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Non-profit organization that promotes online publishing, distribution and reuse of cultural, educational and sciencitific work; artists, educators, researchers, and creators of content share their work; browse through published music, sounds, speeches, illutrations, designs, movies, animations, books, blogs, lesson plans, course packets, textbooks, etc. |
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| Open Educational Resources |
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Open Educational Resources |
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Provides open learning network of shared educational materials based on the Open Commons copyright licenses; access other teachers' course materials, share your own and collaborate with each other; materials include syllabi, lectures, homework assignments, coureses modules, classroom and lab activities, pedagogical materials, games, simulations and much more! |
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| Math Forum at Drexel |
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Math Forum at Drexel |
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Provides resources, materials, activities, person-to-person interactions and educational products and services; online community includes teachers, students, researchers, parents, educators and anyone interested in math and math education; material includes problems and quizzes, teacher exchange lessons, workshops, online math library, math tools, discussion groups and more! |
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| Math Frog |
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Math Frog |
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Free mathematics resources and online games for grades 4, 5, and 6; provides self-contained 45 to 60-minute lessons with mathematic games addressing the expectations in the Ontario curriculum. |
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| MITOpen Course Ware |
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MIT Opencourseware: Highlights for Highschoolath Frog |
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New Massachusetts Institute of Technology resource site for K-12 students and teachers includes more than 2 600 audio and video clips from college lectures as well as assignments and lecture notes |
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| iTunes U |
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Apple's iTunes U |
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Area on the iTunes store that is dedicated to providing users with educational video and audio content. Gain access to lecutures, debates, archival footage and more. All content can be easily downloaded to a PC and transfered to an iPod or MP3 player.
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| Statistics Canada |
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Statistics Canada |
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E-STAT is an interactive learning tool that offers reliable and timely statistics about Canada; uses approximately 2,600 tables from CANSIM (Canadian Socio-economic Information Management System), track trends in virtually every aspect of the lives of Canadians. It is updated once a year. |
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| Taking It Global |
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TakingITGlobal |
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International organization led by youth that connects young adults to find inspiration, access information, get involved and take action to improve local and global communities; works with global partners to build capacity of youth for development, artistic and media expression, make education more engaging and involve young people in global decision making. TIG is currently working with educators and schools from around the world to help introduce students to a broader perspective on important social issues and to give them the opportunity to interact with other students from around the world. |
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| Historica Minutes |
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Historica Minutes |
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One-minute movies that portray important stories from Canada's past; organized by comprehensive easy-to-navigate categories; provides lesson plans prepared for all grades. Students are also encouraged to submit their own minute-movies. |
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| Nortel LearnIT |
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Nortel LearnIT |
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Develops science, technology, engineering and math content; provides project-based lesson plans. |
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| Ontario Educational Resource Bank |
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Ontario Educational Resource Bank |
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For all Ontario teachers and students; 3,000 high-quality resources including lesson plans, student activities, multimedia projects; offered in convenient formats (word documents, PDF, flash); easy to use, oragnized by grade and by subject/course; both public and Catholic school systems. |
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| Annenberg Media Learner |
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Annenberg Media Learner |
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Distributes educational video programs with coordinated web and print materials for the professional learning of K-12 teachers; helps teachers increase their expertise in their fields; free teaching resources and professional learning programming delivered through satellite channel and video on demand. |
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| Turnitin |
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TurnItIn |
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Digital assessment suite that includes: plagiarism prevention, peer review, grademark and gradebook. |
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| e-Workshop |
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e-Workshop |
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Provides learning modules that includ suggested classroom activities, printable classroom tools, videos of exemplary classroom practice, and ways to enhance their reading and math programs. |
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| Cine Route |
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Cine Route |
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Online film library that makes the National Film Board of Canada collection available on the net. |
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Independent Learning Resource |
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Independent Learning Resource (ILC) |
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Web-based interactive tutorials complement text-based courses by demonstrating concepts that are difficult to express in words alone; includes graphics, audio clips, interactive exercises, games, quizzes, etc. |
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