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Anyone have access to the Ontario Educational Resource Bank?
by Fernando Oliveira - Friday, 1 October 2010, 02:43 PM
 
“As Ontario's learning object repository, the Ontario Educational Resource Bank (OERB) offers a growing number of online resources to teachers and students, from Kindergarten to Grade 12, at no cost. There are thousands of resources, including units, lesson plans, activities, maps, and interactive learning resources…”
http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/elearning/bank.html


Their site also stipulates that access is granted at the school board level and that “students must be registered in a provincially funded school.” I left them a message a few weeks ago about accessing this resource in First Nation community schools, but got no response.

Where does that leave First Nation federally funded schools and programs that are not affiliated with a school board? Guess they fall between the crack. Seems odd that the province gets to dictate the curriculum for First Nation schools but doesn’t allow them full access to their resources.

Wondering…

Does anyone on this forum work for a school that has access to this resource?

Does anyone know people in the Ministry of Ed who’d be able/willing to see if this resource could be made available in First Nations schools?

Thanks,
Fernando

PS. Here's the OERB site: http://resources.elearningontario.ca. Feel free to user the "Contact us' button to leave them a message about this issue.
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Re: Anyone have access to the Ontario Educational Resource Bank?
by Brian Beaton - Wednesday, 6 October 2010, 12:26 PM
 

Fernando ... What makes accessing the OERB resources even more difficult to understand is the fact that the Ministry does support First Nations to access educational software under their provincial license.

Check out the OSAPAC repository (Ministry of Education licensed software titles) that is found at

http://www.osapac.org/db/software_search.php?lang=en

While OSAPAC is the committee that advises the Ministry on software titles to negotiate for provincial licensing, OESS (Ontario Educational Software Service) is the distribution mechanism whereby the software is sent to School Boards, Faculties of Education and First Nations Schools. You can find contact information on your OESS representative by doing a Contact Search at OESS.SJPG.COM.

Brian 

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