A Teaching Tool and the Curriculum

Teachers can integrate information technology into their programs. This software is highly flexible and can support various teaching styles and be used in all grades in conjunction with the curriculum requirements. It is especially effective for a cross-curricular approach. English, History, Art, Technology can all merge in a publishing project.

You can use the students' interest in the Internet to:

• Improve their writing skills – this material is going to be published!
• Teach them how to illustrate the work or to provide supporting material.
• Teach them computer skills – setting up accounts, logging on, using a word processor, scanning pictures or other material, uploading previously saved files etc.
• Cause them to produce original material – photographs, artwork, audio or video clips.
• Teach them the standards that need to be met for various types of writing.
• Teach about plagiarism and the need to get permission to use copy-written material.

Flexibility for the Teacher and the Students:

• Young students can write a simple biography on their own computer, have it approved by the teacher and then copy and paste it into Our Canada, with their own drawings or family photographs.
• Senior students can produce more complex compositions, requiring multiple pieces of documentation, (pictures, quotes, statistics, etc.) for which they must get permission to publish. (After all it is really going to be out there on the web.)
• Teachers can choose how much technology they are comfortable with. They can decide to work with paper and pencil in the classroom and only publish the final product. Alternatively they can go on-line to view student work, comment on it, and edit it. They control what gets published.

If you want to get a Teacher’s Administrative Account so you can publish your student’s work download the Teachers Manual and then Create Your Account