The document describes virtualmuseum.ca's Teachers' Centre, which provides over 1200 learning objects from Canadian museums that teachers can use to create virtual lessons. It allows teachers to search for resources by term, grade, province/territory, browse digital assets like images, videos and texts. Teachers can bookmark resources, create their own lessons, add learning objectives and texts, and share or keep lessons private. The Teachers' Centre aims to provide an engaging way for teachers to incorporate museum resources into their lessons through a customized online classroom environment.
2. virtualmuseum.ca
The national portal for Canadian
museums
More than 600 virtual exhibits
Close to 700 000 digital artefacts
145 games
The national directory of
Canadian museums with 3000
profiles
The Teachers’ Centre Web 2.0
3. A New Reality and Environment
Wired classrooms
Quality authoritative content from the Web?
Fully accessible copyright worry-free
Educational material: Canadian, bilingual, free,
credible, multimedia approach with (photo, video,
animation flash and text)
Unique gateway
Customization, participation
5. The Teachers’ Centre
Over 1200 learning objects from
Canadian Museums
Free personal space to save
your favourite content to create
your own virtual lessons
Reliable, bilingual and copyright
worry free Canadian museum
content
The latest interactive learning
tools
Social Media (Twitter, Facebook)
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3. INVITE
your students to interact in your virtual classroom
ACCESS
museum digital learning resources
1.
The concept
2. CREATE
and share lessons
17. How to create a lesson
First, you need to know what you want to do (lesson plan).
Second, find content for your lesson and bookmark (add
to My Content page).
Then, write a draft of what you are going to do with the
content.
Finally, create your lesson.
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Summary: Customized Lessons
Your title
Digital Asset # 1: a photo
Digital Asset # 2: a Flash file
Digital Asset # 3: a text
Your own text
Your own text
Text
Image
Flash
<number>
Lancé en mars 2001 par le gouvernement fédéral.
Est le fruit d'un solide partenariat entre la communauté muséale canadienne et le ministère du Patrimoine canadien.
Permet aux publics canadien et international de découvrir les trésors et les histoires que contiennent les musées du Canada.
Agit en tant que ressource nationale pour trouver des musées, leurs expositions et activités au Canada.
Par l’entremise des Programmes d’investissement du MVC, il appuie la création de contenu en ligne à l’intention des Canadiens, notamment d’expositions virtuelles, de ressources interactives et d’apprentissage.
Offre un contenu bilingue riche, de grande qualité et régulièrement mis à jour tout en permettant plus de recherches dans toutes les régions du Canada.