Online Learning Resources

Committed to providing quality educational choices, HCOS subscribes to a number of online learning resources. Below is a short description of the many educational resources available to our students this year.

United Streaming

Heritage Christian Online School is offering students a subscription to United Streaming at no cost.  This online video library contains more than 5,000 full length educational videos.  It has Animal Planet, Discovery Channel, Magic Schoolbus, Bill Nye, and much, much more.  You can search through the library easily to find what you’re looking for.  This is a great supplement to every student’s education.  There are videos covering a huge variety of topics in arts and music, science, language arts, health, and social studies from grades K through 12.   Check out www.unitedstreaming.com for more information.  If you would like a subscription please email your teacher for sign-up information.

Encyclopedia Britannica

http://newsletter.onlineschool.ca/archive/images/eb.gifWe have now subscribed all of our students and families with the Encyclopedia Britannica- Online. Please contact your support teacher for your login and password.

Enchanted Learning

All HCOS students and families have access to Enchanted Learning, a safe, family friendly educational site with over 20,000 pages of resources! Please contact your support teacher for your login and password.

netTrekker

A safe educational search engine is now available from HCOS through netTrekker. This trusted search engine provides peace of mind to families as their child searches the net for online resources. The search engine is organized by readability and grade level and is even aligned to the provincial outcomes. Contact your support teacher for a username and password.

Town-to-Town Canada

HCOS’ subscription with “Town-to-Town Canada” provides middle and high school students with information on Canadian civic and public affairs. It link students to web sites “relating to government, law, education, social economics, current events, public policy, and living and culture.”  Please contact your support teacher for a username and password.

WHAT IN THE WORLD?

WHAT IN THE WORLD? is a Canadian current events resource covering events and issues with geography. It is designed for students in the intermediate grades and is available in English and French. Contact your support teacher to request monthly links and passwords which will connect you to each new issue. 

TeachingBooks

Explore award winning youth books and their authors. HCOS provides you with access to thousands of resources and multimedia programs through its online subscription with TeachingBooks. Short movies, audio book readings, and book discussion guides are some of the rich learning resources available through this subscription. Contact your support teacher for a username and password.

YourTeacher

YourTeacher.com is an online multimedia math resource for Middle and High school students. Each lesson includes video examples, interactive practice, and self tests. Through HCOS school subscription you will receive a year’s access to Pre-Algebra, Algebra 1, Geometry, or Algebra 2 for only $25. Please contact your support teacher to receive a personal username and password, and arrange payment from your curriculum budget.

“Reading A to Z” and “Writing A to Z”

Finding reading and writing learning resources is now just a click away! HCOS is offering access to “Reading A to Z” and “Writing A to Z” resources at a discounted price. “Reading A to Z” has thousands of printable learning resources that support guided reading, phonemic awareness, reading comprehension, reading fluency, and alphabet and vocabulary learning. These professionally developed resources included downloadable ‘levelled’ books, lesson plans, worksheets, and reading assessment material. The “Writing A to Z” site provides hundreds of downloadable writing resources which include “core writing lessons grouped by genre and text type; mini-lessons targeting key writing skills; and writing tools for organizing and improving writing.” The resources are designed for K-6 learning level. These resources will save you time and money as you search for a resource specific to your child’s reading and writing ability. Through HCOS school subscription you will receive a year’s access to these excellent resources for only $25 each. Please contact your support teacher to arrange payment from your curriculum budget and to receive a username and password.

Volume 5 - Edition 8 - June 2009

Global Ministry Training Center & HCOS sends computers to Kitale, Kenya!

by Trudy Hiebert

“ We’re not designed to live our lives at the mall, to live our life in obscurity, or to be survivors….God says..” Today is the day to become”. It’s time to come out of hiding….. and connect with God’s incredible plan for our lives.” - Pastor Dave Kalamen

We’ve all heard it. God is a God of purpose. We’re here, alive, on purpose, created to walk out the plan that God designed for us. At Global Ministry Training Center ( www.gmtc.ca ) we believe this 100%. We are a discipleship training school, located right here in Kelowna, neighbors to Heritage Christian Online School ( our offices are next to each other ) empowering people with Truth to live a life of purpose on purpose.

We offer a one or two year program which each run for 10 months (Sept-June). The first year program has classes throughout the ten months while taking time to focus on three different outreaches as well. The first outreach is local and includes a Halloween Alternative event as well as a Christmas Banquet for single-parent families, both hosted by Kelowna Christian Center. The second outreach is provincial and usually involves the class traveling to a city in British Columbia, serving local churches, sharing the Gospel message, and ministering to people. The third outreach is international and again is intended to serve local ministries and to share the gospel.

The second year program takes seven months of the year for classes and the other three for a time of mentorship under another leader or ministry. This is different for each individual but is meant to draw out the gifting and leadership skills in the students.

We are a mission’s minded school, and whether the mission at hand is showing the character of Christ at your workplace or preaching the gospel to those who have never heard it before, if your heart is to be a minister wherever you are, this school will equip you.

Recently, Global Ministry Training Center and HCOS teamed up to make a difference for a little school in Kitale, Kenya, where Global Ministry’s international outreach was this year. In the mix of everything GMTC had hoped to accomplish while in Kenya, ( visiting orphanages, ministering to the poorest of the poor in the dust bins ) we had the privilege of setting up a computer lab with the 10 new computers’ that were donated by Heritage Christian Online School. Thanks to Greg Bitgood’s son, Kenny and another tech, who got everything working, these students will now have the opportunity to learn effectively, and be able to gain access into the work force having acquired a skill set few children in Kitale’s private schools would have.

The fact that we were able to do so makes me very proud to be a part of the HCOS team. To have 10 computers donated would in itself be an incredible blessing to someone here in Canada let alone someone in Kitale, Kenya, where in a private school setting , one computer, let alone ten would be hard to come by.

We are a part of a great school, with a great vision.

If you are graduating and would like more information on Global Ministry Training Center, please visit, www.gmtc.ca or call our office @ 250-762-9559 ext 573.

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