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.

Grolier Online users may have noted a spectacular new addition to the Ministry licensed Encyclopedia. In addition to all of the resources that are part of Grolier, they've also added Amazing Animals of the World.

Students will really enjoy the quick and easy reference to this huge collection.

OSAPAC has also announced its licensing priorities for the next fiscal year.

• Transportation Technology (French/English CD-ROM or Web-based)
• Intermediate and Senior Mathematics (interactive Web-based)
• ESL/ELD Elementary (English CD-ROM or Web-based)
• ESL/ELD Secondary (English CD-ROM or Web-based)
• ALF (French CD-ROM or Web-based)
• Graphic Novel/Comic Strip Authoring (French/English)
• Video Editing (French/English) media literacy/communications technology software
• Early Literacy (French/English)
• Upgrades to be determined later in the year as Vista issues are identified with currently   licensed and implemented software titles

Curriculum Expectations
http://www.osapac.org/dbOess/ExpectationBrowse06.asp
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/dbOESS/ResourceBrowse.asp
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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OSAPAC Newly Released Titles
http://www.osapac.org/osapac_new_releases.xml

OSAPAC Learning Objects - Top 10 List
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