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Collaboration and community strategies for helping to reform schools without drastic measures.

This report documents the beliefs, perspectives, and practices of educational administrators which help or hinder effective use of Web 2.0 in K-12 education. The study collected data from nearly 1,200 school administrators on the role of Web 2.0 in American schools and was made possible by a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Interested in earning SB-CEUs during your summer break? Michigan school librarians and teachers can now obtain SB-CEUs for select MeL Databases online webinars. All of our MeL Databases workshops are offered free-of-charge to Michigan librarians and teachers, and MCLS has scheduled several online sessions this summer to accommodate vacation schedules.

"These Math packets were created to align with the Everyday Math Curriculum used during the school year to provide additonal practice during the summer. Each week consists of six problems that review, maintain and deepen the skills and concepts learned in the six strands of mathematics: Operations and Computation, Numeration, Patterns, Functions and Algebra, Data & Chance, Measurement & Reference Frames, and Geometry."

Mathtrain.TV is a free educational "kids teaching kids" project from Mr. Marcos & his students at Lincoln Middle School in Santa Monica, CA.

Welcome to the Ottawa Area Intermediate School District's METS Project wiki. The METS Project is a resource for educators seeking guidance on the technologies that align with their subject/grade level curriculum expectations.

View selected featured speaker presentations on REMC MI Streamnet. REMC MI Streamnet (www.MIstreamnet.org) is a collaboration of the REMC Association of Michigan and the Michigan Department of Education. Its purpose is to provide a clearinghouse of video resources for Michigan educators, including professional development, policy information, and classroom resources. The project aims to make its resources available in an easy-to-use website that is safe for school networks.

Network dedicated to connecting teachers with creative projects, and individuals or groups with the resource to make those projects possible. Has a location filter, so donors can specifically give to schools or classrooms in their area.

A simple site that allows you to view common everyday objects at their actual size. Simply input the size of your monitor in inches in the upper right hand corner, and the site will do its best to display objects that you search for at actual size. Great for use in classrooms to compare objects that aren't allowed in schools (video games, cell phones, etc.), or larger objects like pizzas, steering wheels, or money.

Here you will learn how to use a word processor to create documents for school or other projects. You'll learn to format fonts, add images and some really cool effects.