Mr. Boyle's

EDUCATION RELATED - WEB SITES

 Trillium Lakelands District School Board

Ontario, Canada 

RESOURCES FOR STUDENTS AND PARENTS

Trillium Lakelands District School Board - Home Page http://www.tldsb.on.ca/

 

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 Toronto Star (Free!!) http://www.thestar.com

     The Globe and Mail http://www.theglobeandmail.com/

     All World Newspapers - (on-line)- [click here]

     National Telephone Directory - Canada 411 - [click here]

     Mapquest – Maps of any location in Canada [click here]

     Current Weather Forecasts – Across Ontario (direct from Environment Canada) [click here]

      Long Range Weather Forecasts - Across Ontario (direct from Environment Canada) [click here]

      Environment Canada  - main web page http://weather.ec.gc.ca/

 

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 North America [click here]

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 Approved Textbook List (Trillium List) [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]