Technology allows both teachers and students immediate access to current information, statistics, and data on a given topic. As finding information is one of the most regular activities students use digital technologies for, developing critical information literacy skills is the utmost importance.
- Veezle. A search engine to find free stock images. Stock images are images that have copyright to be used in not-for-profit products.
- John Locker. Find free documentaries online.
- SchoolWAX TV. Instructional videos on tonnes of school subjects and topics.
- Ergo Research Skills. Lessons for students on how to break the task of research into more manageable chunks.
- CBC News. Current world events from a Canadian perspective.
- Teaching Kids News. Current events written so kids can understand them.
- CNN Student News. Video news aimed at a student audience. Be aware this is a US source and is US-centric.
- Gapminder. Data about a myriad of different topics.
- Google Art Project. Virtual art galleries from museums and galleries around the world.
- Google Earth. Take a virtual journey anywhere on Earth! Needs a download.
- Survey Monkey. Collect your own data to inform your project by creating surveys. Login info is in D2L.