Wednesday 25 January 2012

I've been working with an online binder called LiveBinders, I'm not ready to share my creation but here is a great ESL resource I found on the site

World Languages via Livebinder

Wednesday 11 January 2012

Welcome back... for many this month will be extremely busy.  EQAO and Exams are rapidly appearing on the horizon.

But there are many digital support resources that help you through this period.  You may not be aware of the Homework Help Conference.  It can be found in the left panel on the Elementary Education or Secondary Education conferences.

The main Homework Help conference provides access to a wealth of mathematics resources and also access to the Ontario Educational Resource Bank (OERB).

To get to the mathematics resources, simply select the Homework Help Icon. In this sub-conference you can find EQAO resources, information in the Homework Help site (provides access to live mathematics teachers at night to grade 7-10 students),   extensive review materials and much much more.

To get more information on the OERB, you simply select the OERB access button in the Homework Help Main conference.  The OERB is an amazing site full of useful resources at any time of the year.  It houses over 27 000 curriculum resources in any subject from k-12.  These include:  interactive tutorials, lesson plans, entire course units (great for review), Smart Board Resources and many fun activities and games to name a few.  They are readily searchable by resource type or learning style.  The site also provides access to the LEARN360 video bank.  This is an extensive library of over 25 000 video and video clips.  You can access LEARN360 material initially through the OERB but then you can search using its' own extensive searching capabilities.  You can literally find a video on most topics and play it in the classroom in less that 5 minutes.

Also by opening the Video Tutorial link below, you can access step by step video tutorials on how to register students on Homework Help and how to get access and search for materials on the OERB. Simply accept the terms and conditions and listen to the video introduction.

Video Tutorial