Greetings from

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Greetings from

• Ontario Software Acquisition
• Program Advisory Committee
• Comit? consultatif du programme
• dachat de logiciels de lOntario

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Agenda

• Overview
• Defining the Outcome
• A test
• Choices
• A Bit about OSAPAC
• Questions and answers
• Software Storm

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Who Are You?

• Elementary
• Primary?
• Junior?
• Intermediate
• High School
• Consultant
• Administrator

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Who are We?

• John Taylor
• Ministry of Education
• Marc Lijour
• Ministry of Education
• Martin Serre
• New member
• Ivan Strachan
• Thunder Bay Catholic District School Board
• Chair

ShamelessPlug! These pics come from the Canadian
Clipart Collection!
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Who are We?

• John Taylor
• Ministry of Education
• Marc Lijour
• Ministry of Education
• Martin Serre
• New but departing member
• Ivan Strachan
• Thunder Bay Catholic District School Board
• Chair

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• Karen Brooks Nelson
• Wellington Catholic District School Board
• Publicity/First Class Administrator
• Daniel Gaulin
• Conseil scolaire catholique Franco-nord
• Curriculum Links en français
• Hélène Montfort
• Conseil scolaire de district
• des écoles catholiques du Sud-Ouest
• Curriculum Links en français
• Paula Mooney
• Upper Canada District School Board
• Curriculum Connections Coordinator/Recorder

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• Nazreen Motiar
• Toronto District School Board
• Resource Manager
• Doug Peterson
• Greater Essex County District School Board
• Webmaster
• John Rutledge
• University of Western Ontario, Faculty of
  Education
• Database Administrator/Hardware Guru
• Kerry Withrow
• Bluewater District School Board

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The Mandate
We

• find out what you want.

• evaluate submitted resources.

• forward our recommendations to our Ministry
  representative.

• maintain a French and English online database
  of licensed software.

• inform you of the OSAPAC process and of
  licensed software titles.

• provide additional support such as
  professional development opportunities.

• maintain a web site and conferencing system
  to keep you informed.

• maintain an online database of expectations
  linked to our software titles.

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The OSAPAC Website
www.osapac.org
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Osapac main page
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This is how we find out what you want.
www.osapac.org
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www.osapac.org
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We evaluate and recommend.
A request for products that match your
requirements are posted on the web.
Companies submit products.
We evaluate the products using carefully crafted
criteria.
Our recommendations are forwarded to the Ministry
of Education.
Negotiations commence.
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We maintain a databaseof software titles.
www.osapac.org
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www.osapac.org
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www.osapac.org
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www.osapac.org
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www.osapac.org
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We provide additional support.The Learning
Materials Repository
To date there have been 141682 downloads!
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Can you add to our resources?
Nazreen_Motiar_at_osapac.org
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We link expectations to software.
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Weinform you.
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AND Now... the Software
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Smart Ideas 5

• SMART Ideas is concept-mapping software which
  enables teachers and students to create
  multilevel concept maps using colourful symbols,
  arrows and clip art to reinforce concepts from
  all subjects.

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Provided Templates
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Meeting Science Expectations
6s63 Use appropriate vocabulary, including
correct science and technology terminology, in
describing their investigations and observations
(e.g., use terms such as current, battery,
circuit, conductor, insulator positive (plus)
and negative (minus) charges for electrically
charged materials north pole and south pole for
magnetic materials)
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Edison

• Students select
• virtual
• batteries,
• resistors,
• diodes,
• LEDs,
• transistors,
• logic gates,
• flip flops, and
• integrated circuits
• Lifelike 3D circuits can be
• created,
• tested, and
• repaired
• As the student builds the circuit on the
  workbench,

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Tina Pro is software package for analyzing,
designing and real time testing analog, digital,
VHDL, MCU, and mixed electronic circuits and
their PCB layouts.
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Analysing Data
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4s63 Compile data gathered through investigation
in order to record and present results, using
tally charts, tables, and labelled graphs
produced by hand or with a computer (e.g., create
a sound diary to record the sounds encountered
over a period of time)
7s92 Use appropriate vocabulary, including
correct science and technology terminology, to
communicate ideas, procedures, and results (e.g.,
use terms such as fields, data, and cells when
describing databases)
8s137 Compile qualitative and quantitative data
gathered through investigation in order to record
and present results, using diagrams, flow charts,
frequency tables, bar graphs, line graphs, and
stem-and-leaf plots produced by hand or with a
computer (e.g., record the results of a
comparison of the density of various objects and
of their buoyancy in fresh water and salt water)
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In elementary, 26 Science Expectations can be met
with Tinkerplots.
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High School Examples of Expectations
Determine, through experiments, qualitative and
quantative properties of solutions (e.g. perform
a qualitative analysis of ions in a solution
plot solubility curves for some common solutes in
water), and solve problems based on such
experiments.
Compile, organize and interpret data of
investigations using appropriate formats and
treatments, including tables, flow charts, graphs
and diagrams.
Compute, using technology, measures of
one-variable statistics (i.e., the mean, median,
mode, range, interquartile range, variance, and
standard deviation), and demonstrate an
understanding of the appropriate use of each
measure
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Fathom
Plot values and functions on top of data and vary
them dynamically with sliders? Build simulations
that illuminate concepts from probability and
statistics? Perform standard statistical
analyses appropriate for introductory statistics,
including multiple linear regression? Set up
populations and sample from them repeatedly,
getting a feel for the sampling process and
creating sampling distributions of any statistic.
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Grade 1
Grade 2
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Students can access Groliers at home!
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Froguts
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Dissecting the Frog
Initial Observations Circulatory
System Respiratory System Digestive System
Urogenital System Nervous System Skeletal
System Final Test
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Extinction of Frogs?

• Conservationists estimate that 170 species of
  frogs have become extinct in the last two
  decades and fear another 1,900 are on the way out.

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• Many of them have been killed off by the chytrid
  fungus which is thought to have emerged from
  Africa to spread to every continent except
  Antarctica.
• To counter the threat of mass extinctions
  scientists called today for every zoo, aquarium
  and botanical garden in the world to rescue at
  least one species of frog.
• From Times Online - www.timesonline.co.uk

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What can be done?

• Should there be a global scheme to store eggs
  and sperms of endangered animals?

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Sharing Online
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Other Software to Usewhen Showing What They Know

• Adobe Photoshop
• Fireworks
• Dreamweaver
• AppleWorks
• Start Office (Win only)
• The Print Shop (Mac only)

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Questions