McU media

I’m headed to Boyne Mountain this week to help the Michigan Department of Education correlate MEL resources to GLCEs. I’ll lobby for more open and social Internet use!

Here are the MEL resources: MEL

Let me know if you see anything you think I should recommend to the MDE as especially useful.

Thanks to all who participated in the “Looking for a Few Good Books” contest. Please feel free to continue to submit titles and reviews of books you like!

Abdullatif Saad is the grand prize winner for suggesting Thomas Dygard, a sports book author that I had not heard of until now. I have ordered several of his books. the complete list of books I am ordering as a result of the blog contest is available at the blog site.

Middlebooks blog 

I have been playing with several cool new tools this week. The first extremely helpful tool is Pageflakes. It is an aggregator, which means it allows you to put all the things you like to use best on one web page. Here is mine. Mrs. Alvarado’s Pageflake

My next new favorite thing is Classroom 2.0. It is part of the NING social network. Many really smart teachers share their expertise about using technology in education. My page is here. My Classroom 2.0 page

View my page on Classroom 2.0

The contest will soon close! The best written book reviews will be chosen soon (next week). The winning books will be purchased for the reading pleasure of Mccollough/Unis students.