Presenters:
Sue Sherman-Martinez, Eli Whitney School, CPS
Linda Smentek, Hayt School, CPS
NEXUS Intro
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PowerPoint: NEXUS Overview, NEXUS Projects, Hayt & Whitney Schools
NEXUS Projects
Flowchart
Student View of Collaboratory and NEXUS
Not a Collaboratory Member - Want
to View Projects?
How to Become a Collaboratory Member
NEXUS Intro
The Collaboratory NEXUS supports creative collaborations through Internet-based
media and communication tools. It enables participants to share,
comment on, discuss, and publish work using text, images, sound, and video.
The Collaboratory Project’s WAM NEXUS is a community for 6-12 grade students
and their teachers who are interested in creative writing, visual arts,
or music and would benefit from the opportunity to work with an online
mentor. The WAM NEXUS is funded by a grant from the National Educational
Computing Association (NECA) now the International Society for Technology
in Education (ISTE) Special Projects. (Click here to open a MS Word file
to learn about the mentors.)
Not
a Collaboratory User, Yet, But Want to View Projects
(1) Go to the Northwestern Collaboratory Project home page (http://collaboratory.nunet.net)
(2) Click on the Projects button 
(3) In the "Search for Title That Contains Box", type the name
of the search title
- To find Hayt School , type: Becoming a Poet
- To find Whitney School sample, type: Celebrating Our Heritage Through
the Arts
(4) Scroll down and click the Search button.
How
to Become A Collaboratory Member
The Collaboratory is attracting a large and diverse community that
is integrating technology into teaching and learning, using technology
to achieve Illinois Learning Standards and Goals, integrating technology
into the school improvement process, and using technology to help close
the gap between low- and high- poverty schools. Would you like to become
a Collaboratory Member? It's easy....
(1) Go to the Northwestern Collaboratory Project home page (http://collaboratory.nunet.net)
(2) Click the Participate button 
(3) Scroll down and click on the "Request New Account Button" - then
complete the form!