News from OSAPAC
The Ontario Software Acquisition Program Advisory Committee provides a wealth of resources for Ontario educators.

As an advisory committee, it makes recommendations to the Ministry of Education about what titles to license for use in the province. Most titles have teacher takehome rights for lesson preparation.

Just a reminder that OSAPAC has licensed access to Statistics Canada's Estat. Your school's Computers in Education School Contact can provide you with the login and password to this resource.

OSAPAC also maintains a Learning Object Repository. Just this month, new resources for the use of Fathom and Estat have been added to the repository.

Newly received titles:

• Frames 4
• Adobe Photoshop Elements 8

OSAPAC also has announced its new licensing priorities.

• Gizmos: Math 7 to 12 - French Translation (Online Delivery)
• Streaming Video Grades K – 12 (Online Delivery)
• Audio On-Demand Grades K – 12 (Online Delivery)
• Multimedia Authoring: 4 to 8 (DVD/CD or Online Delivery)
• French Grammar/Writing Reference Tool Grades 4 to 12 (DVD/CD)
• Writing Process (Online Delivery)
• Stop Motion Animation (Mac/Windows) Grades 4 to 8 (DVD/CD or (Online Delivery)
• French Elementary Encyclopedia Grades 3 - 8 (Online Delivery)
• Digital Citizenship & Online Safety (Online Delivery)

Resources:
If you are looking for ideas for using OSAPAC software, check out the Learning Resources link. The most popular and newest resources are just a click away. Some of the news resources include support for the newly licensed Mathematics Gizmos.

If you're a Clicker 5 user, check them out!

Curriculum Expectations
http://www.osapac.org/db/software_search.php?lang=en
One of the services provided on the website is a correlation between Ontario Curriculum expectation and Ministry of Education licensed software. This resource is constantly updated as new titles are licensed and also as new curriculum comes along. The big thing this fall will undoubtedly be support for the new Language curriculum. Look for the new expectations to be analyzed and added to the database.

Learning Object Repository
http://www.osapac.org/db/view_resources.php
This is one of the hottest phenomena on the internet. They are basically locations where you can grab a resource to help out in the classroom. OSAPAC has its own repository. What makes it unique is that the resources are written by Ontario educators to support software that is Ministry licensed. The resources are reviewed at the board level and then by the OSAPAC committee before they appear online to ensure quality and appropriateness for the Ontario Curriculum.

Don't hesitate to check out the repository contents. The repository now has over 200,000 downloads for use in Ontario schools

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What's New at OSAPAC?
http://www.osapac.org/cms/rss-latestnews

OSAPAC Newly Released Titles
http://www.osapac.org/cms/rss-announcements

OSAPAC Learning Objects - Newest 10 Resources
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