ClarkstonSchools

Michigan Electronic Grant System

Connecting students on every continent through collaborative global projects. Since 2004 we have been connecting students and teachers to collaborate in composing original music, making movies, and meeting each other in live video chats.

The SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) is a national consortium of states that have been working collaboratively since December 2009 to develop a student assessment system aligned to a common core of academic content standards to apply for a Race-to-the-Top Assessment grant.

Use Quixley to find apps based on what you want to do or accomplish.  Not just apps for a tablet or other hand-held device, but applications for computers and even Internet browsers

Ideas for projects to keep students engaged at the end of the school year.

Interesting article about a Google data center in Finland and, more broadly, how Google and other Internet giants build and create the environments that house the cloud data.

To watch web videos without the comments and crap, just drag the button below to your browser's bookmarks bar. On any of the supported video pages, click the bookmark button to watch in peace. You can then make short URLs too, to send the quietube version to your friends. Easy as.

From the article: "Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said, "Google will remain a place where you can do anonymous searches. We're very committed to having you have control over the information we have about you. So, for example, if you want to continue to use Google and don't log in, and don't tell us who you are, that will continue to be true forever." Mr. Schmidt's statement would remain true for people who aren't logged into a Gmail, Google+, YouTube, Android phone or any other Google account. But as Google's services become more ubiquitous and deeply linked, it could become more difficult for users to take Google up on that promise of anonymity."

The MITS Freedom Stick is a portable, use-anywhere accessibility solution. Install this software package on any 4gb USB Flash Drive (full) or 2gb USB Flash Drive (lite) and you create a set of tools for your students that they can carry in their pockets which will make any Windows computer highly accessible.

interesting advent in the digital textbook market - Discovery's Techbooks. iBooks competitor? From the article: Discovery's Techbook series is cloud-based, meaning students can access the materials from wherever they have an internet connection; the company says that's because not all school districts have the funds to give every student his or her own device. The Techbooks are also platform-agnostic to work with whatever hardware a district or student might have-iPads, tablets, mobile devices, laptops, or desktops.

Perspective on full-time virtual schools

A search engine that helps you weed out irrelevant information

Differences in instructional practices with an interactive whiteboard - highlights the need for training and equipping teachers with the right tools to use the technology in their classroom

For those not maximizing their interactive whiteboard's potential

how are interactive whiteboards being used, or NOT being used, in classrooms?

Interesting idea - community college readiness by sophomore year