Mr.
Boyle's
EDUCATION RELATED - WEB SITES
Trillium Lakelands District School Board
Ontario,
RESOURCES FOR STUDENTS AND
PARENTS
LOCAL LIBRARIES
City of Kawartha Lakes Library
– online catalogue, Bracebridge Public Library
– online catalogue , Haliburton Highlands Public Library
– online catalogue
, Huntsville Public Library –
online catalogue , Gravenhurst Public Library – online catalogue Toronto Public Library [click here]
FREE EBOOKS
Project Gutenberg
U.S. - [click here] Project Gutenberg Australia [click here] Project Gutenberg Canada [click here]
ENCYCLOPEDIAS
The Canadian Encyclopedia - [click here] Encyclopedia Britannica - [click here] Wikipedia Encyclopedia [click here]
WEB SEARCH
ENGINES
Elementary Students [click here] Secondary Students choose from the
following search engines: Google
Search, Yahoo Search, Altavista Search, Dogpile Search, Excite Search, Hotbot Search, Webcrawler Search or others.
VARIOUS
REFERENCE MATERIALS
Virtual Reference Desk
http://www.refdesk.com/toc.html
Internet tools
(Thesaurus, translators, etc) http://www.itools.com/research-it/research-it.html
Canadian Atlas on-line
- [click here]
Statistics Canada [click here]
Education $$$$ planning
guide - http://www.kawartha.net/~bboyle/planning/planning.htm
3,000 Radio and TV
Stations on-line live! (streaming media) - http://www.comfm.com/live/radio/
The
The Globe and Mail http://www.theglobeandmail.com/
All World Newspapers -
(on-line)- [click here]
Mapquest – Maps of any
location in
Current Weather Forecasts
– Across
Environment
HOW TO WRITE
ESSAYS AND RESEARCH PAPERS
How to write an essay – [click here]
How to write a research essay – [click here]
How to cite works within a research essay:
The MLA method (used at LCVI) - now the
dominant method in
The APA method [click here]
The traditional endnotes/footnotes bibliography
method [click here]
Students should ask their teacher which of the
above outlined methods to use, as all are in common use.
LOCAL TEACHER INFORMATION
ESIS System (login and password required) [click
here] Download Opera Browser [click here] to access ESIS from home
Trillium Lakelands Audio Visual ordering site - http://media.tldsb.on.ca/
Trillium Lakelands Email system - http://mail.tldsb.on.ca/
Anti-plagiarism Search Engine! - http://www.plagiarism.org/
Ontario Ministry of Education - Elementary curriculum site – [click here]
Ontario Ministry of Education - Secondary curriculum site- [click here]
Ontario Ministry of Education - Publications - [click here]
Ontario Ministry of Education - Licensed Software – [click here]
Ontario Ministry of Education list of approved high school Transfer
Credits [click here]
Curriculum.org ( Course exemplars and online Course of Study
outlines) [click here]
Nifty little crossword puzzle maker [click
here]
Scholastic Book Club ordering system - [click here]
Link to Ontario College of Teachers [click here]
Link to E.Q.A.O. [click here]
Link to Q.E.C.O. [click here]
People For Education Web-Site – http://www.peopleforeducation.com/
COMPUTER
RESOURCES FOR TEACHERS AND PARENTS
To run a FREE on-line virus check of your computer using Housecall
[click here]
To get low cost or free software from the Shareware.com site [click here]
To get low cost or free software from the Tucows site [click here]
FREE – Adobe Acrobat Reader for reading PDF files [click here]
FREE – AVG anti-virus program [click here]
FREE – Avast anti-virus program [click
here]
FREE - Open Word 2007 .docx docs
with older versions of Word – Download FREE Compatibility Pack – [click
here]
FREE - Download OPERA browser
( fast access to ESIS system ) – [click
here]
FREE – Download the latest First Class Client [here] Set up instructions for TLDSB [here]
FREE – uTorrent - BitTorrent
client – [click here]
SOME LINKS MR. BOYLE USES
Link to assignments for ALL courses which Mr. Boyle teaches – [click here]
Nexicom Webmail [click here]
Hotmail [click here]
Country 105 –FM – [click here]
HTML tutorial - [click here]
Web Page Backgrounds - [click
here]
Animated Gifs - [click
here]
Clip Art - [click
here]
Images - [click
here]
Dynamic HTML resource page - [click
here]