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.

1. virtualmuseum.ca’s
Teachers’ Centre
Liven Up Your Lessons with Canada’s Museums

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

4. Accessing the Teachers’ Centre

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

7. Search by:
•Term
•Grade
•Province or Territory
•Or use the search box
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•Bilingual Content
•Copyright Worry Free

8. Learning Resources
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Digital AssetsLearning Object
Learning Object
Collection
Image
Text
Video or Flash
Bookmarking
tool
Like
a
book Like a
chapter Like a
paragraph

9. Class Management
Blog
Message Centre
Features
Wiki
Bookmark
Creation of lessons
and student
assignments

10. Fill the
registration
form and
follow
instructions

11. Login
page
once you
are
registered

12. Once you are registered as
a teacher, you can create
a student account.

13. Try search
the word
"biology "

14. Default setting will show
you Learning Object
but you can change to
Collections.
Lets’s see
what this
one looks
like.

15. Learning objectives
Name of the
Learning Object
Collection
Learning
Object that is
being viewed
Add
content to
create
your
lesson

16. Where your bookmarked
content resides

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.

18. Click here first
Then here

19. Add a
title
Add learning
objectives
You can share
your lesson or
keep it private
Click to
continue

20. You can
add
content
from My
Content
Or your
own text

21. Add a title
Add
your text
Click

22. Click add
Here is all the content
you have added

23. To move
content around
Click to
save

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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

25. Lessons and
projects

26. JOIN TODAY!
Thank you
Annick Deblois
Education Specialist
annick.deblois@pch.gc.ca