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March 26 Harinder & Joanne March 29 Carolyn & Jennifer April 2 Anna & Shan April 9 Dianne & Catherine April 16 Bart & Patricia April 30 Debra & Linda May 7 Allison & Helen May 14 Gina & Trista

__**Professional Sharing**__:

Carol Koechlin's powerpt

From Anna: [|www.campaignforrealbeauty.ca] Great for media literacy and self-esteem. Click on "Dove self-esteem fund", then "girls" to access the interactive self-esteem zone. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2i6-fdjUsWo Clip on how the images on Facebook are manipulated. From Anna: **Girls Can Do Anything Magazine** Canada's Empowerment Magazine for Teens can be ordered through EBSCO ($42)

From Helen: Attached is the order form for READ Posters. READ Posters are a great way to promote reading and literacy around the school.

Joanne Parum

What is SENSwitcher.
SENSwitcher is a suite of programs designed to help teach early ICT skills to people with profound and multiple learning difficulties, those who need to develop skills with assistive input devices and very young children new to computers. It is, we believe the first time anyone anywhere has developed an online switch enabled application which targets ICT skills from purely experiential through cause and effect, switch building, timed activation, targeting and row scanning. [|Ngfl SEN Online Activity Index.htm]

Info on a few of the things Carolyn's shared:

[|www.starfall.com] Phonics based interactive website to help children with reading

http://www.amdsb.ca/students/homework.htm Avon Maitland District School Board activites and resources for each grade/subject K-12

[|www.lesplan.com] or toll free 1-888-240-2212 What in the World magazine with reading strategy activities

http://www.olympicschool.ca/ Canadian Olympic School Program with stories and activities about Canadian athletes demonstrating Olympic values (character development)

Toronto Star initiatives: Ask why campaign- [|www.thestar.com/askwhy] (no longer available sorry) Free the Children-Craig and Marc Kilberger acticles and activities for grade 6-12 http://www.thestar.com/comment/columnists/94598

Media Literacy sites: Shân Gordon http://pbskids.org/dontbuyit/ (elementary, but could give some good ideas for older students too) fun activities to help kids understand advertising "tricks" like designing your own cereal box, food advertising gimmicks and activities to become an aware consumer.

http://web.mac.com/swanseaschooltoronto/iWeb/Site/Blog/55EDDEB1-9CEF-4A75-8353-4D4EE9514EA2.html this link is to a bunch of links that are mostly geared to older students, but some of them are pretty general, solid Media Lit. organizations that are useful for all ages, at least for ideas and reference.

http://web.mac.com/swanseaschooltoronto/iWeb/Site/Blog/8C771328-058D-4E28-89BF-01474A39EBC8.html this link is to a page that has links to primary and junior sheets, created by Colin McAuley, that are pretty flexible for a variety of Media Lit. activities. (these two links courtesy of Chris Higgins at Swansea)

Also in the Teacher /Librarian folder of Tel under Elementary In Media Literacy there are tons of useful links courtesy of Cindy Matthews and Karen Beutler

Reading Maps from the Westmount Public Library: Patricia Porteous This link takes you directly to the English reading map for __Suite Francaise__ by Irene Nemirovsky. http://www.westlib.org/Readingmaps/PrintMap/SuiteFrancaisP1E.pdf