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Safe Schools for All Conference at OISE/UT
Lisa Fernandes, Education Officer for TVO presented a session entitled: Girls and Aggression, Resources for Teachers at this year's Safe Schools for All Conference at OISE/UT on Saturday Sept 24th, 2005. Video resources such as VOX Talk: Sticks and Stones were previewed and free teacher's guides were given out. Participants discussed the problems of increasing violence in girls and how this can be addressed in schools. Download a list of TVO's Anti-bullying and Violence Prevention Resources here.
VIP Launches new web-site!
The Violence Intervention Project, a youth-led, youth-engagement violence prevention project will be officially launching their new web-site on September 30: http://www.violenceinterventionproject.com VIP is part of East Metro Youth Services, an accredited youth mental health agency that has been serving the Scarborough community for over 30 years. VIP's new site offers useful tools for youth, educators and parents alike about the issues affecting youth today with a particular focus on real-life strategies for preventing violence. Check out their new site and see what you can do to make your school and community a safer place to live, work and play.
TVO for TEACHERS E-News Gives Teachers Answers!
Answer keys for many of the 2005-2006 TVO for TEACHERS' student viewing questions (BLM 1) are available through the Curriculum Resource Bank. You can link to the answer keys by clicking on BLM 1A throughout this newsletter and signing up for the CRB. Free access is available for teachers, librarians and administrators at any of the 72 district school boards and 33 school authorities in Ontario, professors and students at Faculties of Education and associate teachers and students at the Independent Learning Centre. If you haven't already, sign up today and gain access to downloadable, copyright cleared video content and additional resources for your classroom.
VOX Needs Teacher Input!
VOX, TVO’s Gemini nominated youth magazine show, is an upbeat culture series that provides a voice for teens and invites them to explore ideas, issues, and the world around them. We are currently looking for suggestions from teachers about topics for discussion that you would find useful to complement the curriculum in your classroom. Simply click here to learn more about VOX and to fill out the brief feedback form.
Participate in Ontario's Best Lecturers Competition!
Last Fall, TVO's BIG IDEAS initiated a search for Ontario's best lecturer. We wanted names of professors whose classes were not to be missed. The response was, to say the least, both surprising and very gratifying with 359 nominations! The 10 best contestants selected by the jury will be asked to give special lectures which will air on BIG IDEAS beginning Saturday October 8, 2005 at 1 PM. Then you, the viewer, will have the chance to grade each of the 10 lectures online or by phone to determine who will be Ontario's Best Lecturer! The winner will be announced on Saturday November 12, 2005. For more information about the contest visit www.tvo.org/big ideas.
Women in Engineering
Explore the exciting field of engineering through this special event for girls! Meet women currently studying engineering, learn about some of the amazing things women engineers are doing, and participate in cool hands-on activities. This is a special event for girls in grades 7-10 at locations across the province on Saturday October 15th, 2005. More more details visit the following website: http://www.ospe.on.ca/goenggirl/
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Featured upcoming TVO programming and teacher resources
All downloads are in Microsoft Word format. "Teacher resource" refers to background information and serves as a guide to using TVO programming in your classroom.
"BLM 1" refers to viewing questions. "BLM 2" refers to Assessment and Evaluation suggestions.
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VOX: what's your cause
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| SUN oct 30 AT 6 pm |
Whether it’s raging against the war, rising tuition costs, or the increasing corporatization of our world, it seems like young people are taking a larger role in protesting things that they disagree with, no matter how big the challenge. But is this trend here to stay? Are we living in an age of activism? |
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| Intermediate |
Social Science and Humanities : HIF1O/HIF2O
Canadian and World Studies: CHV2O
Guidance and Career Education: GLS1O/GLE1O
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Guidance and Career Education: GLS4O/GLE4O/GLE3O
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| teacher resource | blm 1 | blm 1A | blm 2 |
the view from here: cheating death
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| wed oct 12 AT 10 pm |
Cheating Death is about choices and second chances. For ten years,
Gyasi Ferdinand was known as J9. He was a crack dealer in Regent Park,
one of Toronto's roughest neighbourhoods, and he always carried a 9mm.
Then he got shot. The shooting led to a profound spiritual experience,
and a personal struggle that Gyasi had never anticipated. For Gyasi to
live, J9 has to die.
Cheating Death is a frank and intimate character study that takes us
inside the mind of a man still struggling with the temptations of the
street, while at the same time embarking on a new spiritual journey.
The documentary is a journey into the world of drugs, gangs and guns –
a world much talked about and feared but rarely understood.
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| Intermediate |
Health and Physical Education: Grade 7, Grade 8, PPL1O |
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the view from here: nine months, six blocks
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| wed oct 12 AT 10:30 pm |
Within the core of the diverse and densely populated neighbourhood of South Parkdale, Toronto, three lives unfold over nine months and six blocks.
9 Months, 6 Blocks is a poignant and lyrical chronicle of urban life. Told as an inner city trilogy, the film follows the lives of three disparate people, their stories poetically interconnected by the streets they live within and the place they call home.
From spring to winter, a troubled youth (Jade) comes to terms with his past by facing his future, a single Tibetan mother (Tsering) overcomes personal tragedy while building a life in a new country, and a senior (Peter) resident takes comfort in routine while embracing a community in constant transition.
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| Intermediate |
Social Science and Humanities : HIF1O/HIF2O
Canadian and World Studies: CHV2O
Guidance and Career Education: GLS1O/GLE1O
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| teacher resource | blm 1 | blm 1A | blm 2 |
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| COLOUR OF WAR |
| MONDAYS AT 10 PM UNTIL OCT 10 |
| Until this series, film footage of World War Two has always been black and white. For the first time, original colour footage is used. Events are described from letters and diaries of people present over three episodes. Colour of War II begins October 17th. |
| -repeats the next morning at 1 AM |
| Intermediate |
| Canadian and World Studies: CHC 2D/P, |
| Senior |
| Canadian and World Studies:: CHT3O, CHI4U, CHY4C/U |
| download: (Word.doc) |
| teacher resource | blm 1 | blm 1A | blm 2 |
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| studio 2: Diplomatic Immunity |
friday sept 30 at 8 pm, repeats at 11 |
| Join host, Steve Paikin and DI's Foreign Affairs analysts as they examine international news and events of the day. This week's Diplomatic Immunity will feature Frank McKenna, Canada's current Ambassador to the United States. Topics include everything from softwood lumber to Canada-US relations to his own personal ambitions. Also, check out the DI website at www.tvo.org/diplomaticimmunity |
| GREAT EXPECTATIONS |
| TUEsdays at 9 PM, beginning Sept 27, Repeats at midnight |
Violence and Victorian gentility meet in one of Dickens' greatest creations. Tony Marchant's new adaptation of this classic tale is dark, sometimes savagely comic and wholly unsentimental. Pip's epic journey from boy to man has at its centre his relationships with the terrifying convict Magwitch, manipulative Miss Havisham and the beautiful but heartless Estella.
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| big ideas |
| Saturdays at 1 pm, repeated Sundays at 1 pM |
Speakers from all facets of academia present lectures on a wide variety of
topics, including politics, social policy, literature, and philosophy.
Journalist-author Irshad Manji hosts this unique, two-hour programming
block, introducing and commenting on the lectures.
Ontario's Best Leacturers Competition
Last Fall, TVO's BIG IDEAS initiated a search for Ontario's best lecturer. We wanted names of professors whose classes were not to be missed. The response was, to say the least, both surprising and very gratifying with 359 nominations! The 10 best contestants selected by the jury will be asked to give special lectures which will air on BIG IDEAS beginning Saturday October 8, 2005 at 1 PM. Then you, the viewer, will have the chance to grade each of the 10 lectures online or by phone to determine who will be Ontario's Best Lecturer! The winner will be announced on Saturday November 12, 2005.
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| Imprint: writing LESSONS |
| SATURDAYS AT 3:30 PM, BEGINNING OCT 1 |
A magazine style 13-part series with a mix of interviews, panels, mini-documentaries, profiles and more to interest students of creative writing or English literature. A must see for those in love with the world of books and authors. |
| THAT'LL TEACH 'EM II |
| sundays at 7 pm |
This highly successful series returns with a new spin where we find out if a group of modern-day kids who aren’t academic “high flyers” benefit from the practical skills that used to be taught in the 1960’s. Complete with lessons in bricklaying and cookery, 30 sixteen year olds travel back in time for a month of intensive tuition with the emphasis on vocational skills.
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| HEADS UP! |
| thursdays at 6:30 pm , REPEATING SATURDAYS AT 11 AM, |
The sky is the limit with this 13 part science series about astronomy and astronautics for kids aged 8 – 13. Host and writer Bob McDonald exclaims, "Have you ever looked up into the night sky and wondered where we are in space? How do we fit in to the grand universe? Well, keep your ‘heads up,’ because we’re going to discover our cosmic address”. Canadian astronauts Julie Payette, Chris Hatfield and Dave Williams are featured in various segments as they give their own personal accounts of what it’s like to be involved with the ‘final frontier’. |
| ANCIENT CLUES |
| MONDAYS AT 7 pm, Repeats Saturdays at 5 pm |
Classic archeology and modern forensics are used to piece together clues from ancient burial sites and tell astounding stories of life and death in another time. |
| MASTERWORKS |
| THURSDAYS AT 10 PM, repeats the following sunday at 1 am |
Masterworks is a bold, prime time documentary series celebrating and exploring the life, work, and creative process of influential painters, photographers, architects, writers, musicians, and filmmakers who are considered masters in their respective fields. This series is both Canadian and international in scope. |
| technology and machines on tvo |
| thursdays at 7 pm |
Explore the design and construction of some the world's most extraordinary technology and engineering projects.
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| COMING SOON |
Another great social justice documentary and accompanying teacher resources on The View From Here.
THE view from here
Three-part documentary begins Nov 16 at 10 PM
Black Coffee
How a simple bean has evolved from brain tonic to dominant global force is laid bare by Irene Angelico. As in her previous documentary, The Cola Conquest, Angelico laces her three-parter with fascinating trivia and sordid facts on how the beguiling brew had its roots in colonialism and spurred many a revolution. Coffee has an abysmal human rights and ecological record that continues today.
The series also explores the mass marketing of the ubiquitous beverage, the fair trade movement, and the emergence of the specialty coffee industry.
Check out next months' TVO for TEACHERS E-News for details!
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 CLASSIC TVO |
Small Engines
A true hands-on series, Small Engines shows students how to disassemble, reassemble, operate, diagnose, and maintain small two- and four-stroke gas engines.
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