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Courses Offered in 2008-2009

Day School courses:

Semester 1 Semester 2
CGW 4U

Canadian & World Issues: Geographic Analysis

 CHY 4U

World History: The West and the World
EWC 4U

The Writers Craft

 EWC 4U

The Writers Craft
HSB 4M

Challenge and Change in Society

 HSB 4M

Challenge and Change in Society

Specialized Coop:

Semester 1 and 2

Specialized Coop

Intended for students aged 18-24 requiring between two and four credits for graduation and have not been enrolled in an LKDSB Secondary School during the last 12 months.

For more information, contact:

Cal McCabe:

Greg Gordon:

Your Guidance Counsellor

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eLearning Ontario is a project of the Ministry of Education in Ontario, that provides eLearning courses and educational resources to participating school boards.  This gives them new ways to teach Ontario's curriculum and help their students succeed.

While school boards retain full responsibility for the delivery of courses and resources at the local level, eLearning Ontario provides leadership, software tools, and guiding policies.  For more information, refer to the Components of Ontario's eLearning Strategy.




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OeLC

 

The Ontario eLearning Consortium (OeLC) is a grass roots partnership of District School Boards who, since 2001, has worked together to develop and deliver online courses, resources and modules, train teachers, perform quality assurance, and increase learning opportunities for students, province-wide.   Currently the Consortium supports 17 member Boards, both Public and Catholic, representing more than 600,000 students who reside in both metropolitan and rural areas throughout Ontario.  LKDSB is a member board with the OeLC.

Features of the Ontario eLearning Consortium

  • Committed to supporting improved student learning

  • Understand and work within the Ontario Context

  • Represent a cross section of Boards, Teachers and Students with a collaborative focus on providing activities and resources promoting meaningful, engaged learning

  • Demonstrated success, experience and expertise

  • Ongoing capacity, quality and capability building

  • Grassroots initiated and focused

  • Understanding of the potential and limitations associated with digital resources

The Consortium promotes:

  • Capacity Building - bringing together the expertise, experience and resources of several school districts.

  • Course and Resource Sharing – provides the opportunity to share in the delivery of online courses and resources.

  • Curriculum and Resource Development- share the cost and expertise in developing and enhancing online curriculum and digital resources.

  • Training - share the cost and expertise in teacher training, research and development.

  • Quality Assurance - share the costs and expertise for curriculum and resource review.

  • Advocacy – a common voice and extensive support network that identifies and effectively addresses issues relate to funding, staffing, procedures, practices, curriculum and legislation to best meet student learning needs.

  • Coordination – a Coordinator provides coordination of OeLC activities, support for teachers and Board online programs, training, resource development, advocacy and communications.

See http://www.elearningontario.ca/eng/overview/1_1_4-2.asp  for a story about a student who has benefited from participation with OeLC developed, delivered and supported resources.

 

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eLearning in LKDSB

Step 1 - Research

Step 2 - Eligibility

  • Visit your Guidance Counsellor to assess your eligibility and review prerequisites

Step 3 - Register

  • Click to Register Online
  • Create an account or, if you have registered previously, access your existing account
  • Your Guidance Counsellor will 'accept' you into the course providing you meet all requirements.  You may or may not be placed on a waiting list for the course depending upon course requests across our board.
  • The registration website will email your registration confirmation to your home email

Step 4 - Beginning your course

  • Students will be given access to the course during the first week of the semester and the course officially begins during the second week of the semester
  • Information regarding the course website and login information will be sent via email.  Please check frequently and remember. 
  • Note:  If you have not received an email, your email system (hotmail, yahoo, etc.) will place unknown email in the junk folder

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Student Information

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Meet the Teachers

Certified teachers employed by the LKDSB deliver all eLearning courses.  All teachers have been trained in the delivery and methodology of online instruction.

Click on the appropriate teacher for an introduction and message regarding the course.

CGW 4U -                   COMING SOON

CHY 4U -

EWC 4U -

HSB 4M -

Specialized Coop -

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Accessing Your Course

Day School:

Specialized Coop:

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Orientation

  • Login to your course to complete the online orientation before  beginning the course material
  • Day school students will have a face to face orientation scheduled during the second week of the semester in their home school.  Please see your Guidance Counsellor for details.
  • Specialized Coop students will have a face to face orientation at a scheduled time and location.  Your teacher will contact you with details.

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Attendance

  • The Ministry of Education requires that attendance be taken in all courses.  Due to the nature of eLearning, the student is not present in a normal congregated class where attendance is readily visible.  The following guideline has been agreed to with the Ministry and eLearning personnel at this time.
  • A student is deemed present if they actively participate in the virtual site a minimum of one time per week.  Active participation includes any activity normally associated with eLearning.  This may include, but is not limited to participation in a threaded discussion or handing in an assignment via the dropbox.  In addition, it is strongly recommended students login daily.
  • The eLearning classroom timestamps all activity within the student account

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Contacting Your Teacher

  • You do not have the ability to raise your hand to ask your a teacher a question in an eLearning course...but it is almost that easy...
  • Use the email system or pager within your classroom
  • Your teacher may also have regular office hours where you can join an online discussion or receive assistance via phone

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Contacting Your Classmates

  • You will have the ability to interact with your classmates within the eLearning classroom in a variety of formats including email, pager, discussion boards and chatrooms
  • All activity within the eLearning classroom is stored and time stamped

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Getting Help - with the classroom tools

 

  • D2L has provided PDF documents with easy to follow instructions on the use of various tools and features found within the eLearning classroom.  These can be found on the student homepage after login.
  • For issues or problems with any of the tools found in your eLearning classroom, use the D2L Help Desk.  The toll free number is staffed from 7am - 11pm with technicians.
  • For assistance with your course, contact your teacher via email, pager or phone

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Submitting Assignments

  • Assigments will come in a variety of formats but submission will be submitted via the eLearning classroom in D2L
  • The teacher will provide instruction on the submission, but most assignments will be submitted into the dropbox, post a new thread or reply to a post in a threaded discussion

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Exams

  • All Day School eLearning courses offered in LKDSB require a Final Exam be written
  • The exam will be available in the D2L eLearning classroom, but must be written the the pre-determined location within the home school
  • Information regarding the date, time and procedure will be provided by the teacher and the Guidance Counsellor

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Netiquette

 

Do Don't
...keep messages short ...send messages when you are angry
...review messages before sending them out ...copy an entire message just to add a line or two of commentary
...be as polite as possible ...reply to all recipients, unless necessary
...clarify the kind of message you are sending ...type in capital letters; this is SHOUTING
...remember that non-verbal communication is not conveyed in writing (tone of voice, facial expressions, etc); a joke may not be interpreted as a joke by the recipient ...edit quoted messages to change their meaning
...include the original portion of text in your reply ...forward a personal message without the consent of the author
...ensure that your subject line reflects the content of your message ...use exotic fonts or features; they can cause havoc on the receiving end
... be careful of what you put in print ...use abbreviations or emoticons that the receiver may not understand
...give others the benefit of the doubt ...type anything in an email that you would not say in a face-to-face conversation

 

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