Mr.
Boyle's
EDUCATION RELATED - WEB SITES
Trillium Lakelands District School Board
Ontario,
RESOURCES FOR STUDENTS AND
PARENTS
2. City of Kawartha Lakes Library –
online catalogue Toronto Public Library [click here]
3. Encyclopedias - The Canadian Encyclopedia
- [click here] Columbia
Encyclopedia -[click here]
Encarta
Encyclopedia - [click here] Encyclopedia
Britannica - [click here] Wikipedia
Encyclopedia [click here]
4. 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.
5. Virtual Reference Desk http://www.refdesk.com/toc.html
6. Internet tools
(Thesaurus, translators, etc) http://www.itools.com/research-it/research-it.html
7. Canadian Atlas on-line
- [click here]
8. Online Books (Project
Gutenberg) – The entire text of great novels FREE on-line. [click here]
9. Statistics Canada [click here]
10. Education $$$$ planning
guide - http://www.kawartha.net/~bboyle/planning/planning.htm
11. 3,000 Radio and TV
Stations on-line live! (streaming media) - http://www.comfm.com/live/radio/
12. The
13. The Globe and Mail http://www.theglobeandmail.com/
14. All World Newspapers -
(on-line)- [click here]
16. Mapquest – Maps of any
location in
17. Current Weather Forecasts
– Across
19. 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]
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]
Education Network of
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]
SOME LINKS MR. BOYLE USES
Nexicom Webmail [click
here]
Hotmail [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]