How to Access OSAPAC / OESS Resources

Career Cruising

Guidance and career information for students in Grades 7-12. Many tools for exploring interest and aptitudes. Hundreds of videos on various jobs. Links to colleges and universities. Bilingual.

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Grolier On Line

Six databases in one powerful reference collection – timelines, charts, biographies, colour photographs and illustrations, and international news features link directly to encyclopedia articles – study guides, quizzes, and educational games and puzzles address multiple learning styles.

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L’encyclopedie Universalis en ligne

L’encyclopedie Universalis en ligne comporte un moteur de recherché puissant et intelligent donnant acces a plus de 33 000 articles, 17 000 documents multimedias, un atlas mondial avec plus de 700 cartes physiques, politiques et administratives sur lesquelles il est possible de faire des zooms, un dictionnaire integer avec 120 000 entrees et un guide de sites Web selectionnes. Articles hebdomadaires nouveaux et exclusifs, dossiers mensuels pour comprendre les enjeux et les problemes de notre époque, un calendrier quotidian acces a divers articles et une archive de contenus en ligne publies permettant de consulter des informations actuelles.

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Mathville Grade 1

Description: Mathville 1 has 12 multi-level activities that provide a fun-filled, game-like environment for students to explore Grade 1 topics such as – counting, skip counting and simple fractions
-    adding, subtracting and estimating
-    telling time identifying 2 and 3-D geometric shapes
-    sorting shapes by their attributes
-    extending repeating patterns
-    investigating equality with a balance model
-    organizing and displaying data with concrete graphs, pictographs, and bar graphs, pictographs and bar graphs

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Mathematics & Science Gizmos

Science Gizmos for teachers and students in Grades 9-12. Math Gizmos for teachers and students in Grades 7-12. On line Flash and Shockwave based simulations with teacher introductory notes, assessment and graphing capabilities.

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Bitstrips for Schools

An educational and safe web service that empowers students to make and share great comics without drawing a line and lets teachers unlock the educational power of comics.

Key Features
-    Teachers can create engaging assignments in the form of interactive comic stripes.
-    Students can create cartoon characters of themselves, which teachers can plan in lessons. Students are literally inside their own schoolwork!
-    Students can collaborate on re-mixable comic stripes for group work assignments.
-    Teacher-made lessons can be rated and shared with other teachers though Bitstrips’ online assignment library.
-    Available in English and French.

Teachers can activate their accounts by selecting the board name from a drop down and entering their e-mail address

Learn360

The Learn360 service offers materials selected to provide targeted curriculum support from a variety of educational video procedures such as TVO, Nelvana, PBS, National Geographic, Standard Deviants, Slim Goodbody, Sunburst Media and other. The service includes thousands of educational videos, video clips, newsreels, audio and video files and still images. All of the full-length videos and video clips are aligned to Provincial standards.

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National Film Board

Over 1500 full-length films, trailers and clips online, free for personal use and a subscription basis for schools and institutions.
-    OSAPAC has paid for the subscription for all publicly funded educational institutions in Ontario.
-    This subscription grants performance rights for use in classrooms, libraries and auditoriums.

Public Access

L'Office National du Film du Canada

Plus de 1500 films, extraits et bandes-annouces aux fins de visionnage prive.
-    Le CCPALO a finance l’abonnement a la collection de l’Office national du film du Canada (ONF) pour tous les establissements scolaires finances par les fonds publics de l’Ontario.
-    Cet abonnement inclut les droits de representation en sale de class, dans les bibliotheques et les amphitheatres.

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Naxos Music Library

Description: Comprehensive Music Collection. Subscribers can create their own playlists.
-    Listen to more than 41, 220 CDs, 590,600 tracks of music
-    New releases are added every month and can be accessed separately. On average, 500 new CDs are added to the library every month.
-    Artist and composer biographies
-    Work instrumentation, information and analysis
-    Opera synopses and libretti
-    Music fundamental terms
-    Comprehensive liner notes
-    Composer portraits
-    Educational text

Users can choose among three different search modes:
-    Keyword Search by name of composer and/or work.
-    Browse/Search to list the catalogues alphabetically by label, by composer, and genre and category combined.
-    Advanced Search allows users to search by genre, composer, country, period, instrument, artist, label and year of composition for a combination of these criteria.

Sound Quality
Recordings are streamed in near-CD quality (64kbps). Streaming in CD quality (128kbps) is also available at a premium.

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ESRI eNews Letter Canada

ESRI Cirricular Pieces Canada

ESRI Canada’s eNewsletters keep you up-to-date on what’s new and exciting with ESRI Canada’s products, services, events, technology, clients and business partners. ESRI Canada offers 5 specialized channels to which you can subscribe, based on your language, interest and area of expertise.
Curricular Pieces ESRI Canada’s resources provide help to students and teachers ad they explore the many possibilities and uses of GIS in the classroom. On average, our resources are leveraged 1400 times per month with 35% of pages viewed coming from Ontario.

Public Access

Passport to the Internet

Passport to the Internet helps young people develop the critical thinking skills they need to apply to their online experiences by enabling them to use popular online tools and Web sites in a secure and ethical manner, and to their full potential.
Using simulations of the most popular internet environments, this interactive resource teachers students about
-    online safety,
-    authenticating online information,
-    recognizing online marketing ploys,
-    protecting their privacy,
-    managing online relationships,
-    dealing with cyberbullying.

Passport to the Internet, a Web-based licensed resource in Flash, is accompanied by an extensive teacher’s guide that features detailed instructions, backgrounds, classroom activities and handouts.

Public log on may require a password in the future.

Turnitin

WriteCycle is the only complete, web-based solution for managing writing assignments, via multiple phases of feedback and revisions. It’s three interrelated tools greatly accelerated the learning process, involving students in their own development, freeing instructions from the burden of tracking papers and promoting critical thinking, while maintaining academic integrity.
Turnitin Originality Checking allows educators to check students’ work for improper citation or potential plagiarism by comparing it against continuously updated databases. Every Originality Report provides instructors with the opportunity to teach their students proper citation methods as well as to safeguard their students’ academic integrity.

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 Scholastic BookFlix

An engaging online literacy resource to help build a love of reading and learning in all your children!

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