Welcome!

The Syracuse City School District, and the Living SchoolBook (LSB) and Information Institute of Syracuse at Syracuse University have been working together as a part of NY State Education Department’s Virtual Learning Space grant to scale a suite of educational tools for a larger statewide audience. During the past five years, these web-based tools were developed collaboratively from the ideas of visionary teachers and university faculty members to enhance their own, and more importantly, their students' classroom learning experiences. They are dynamic content in action tools.

In the CORE-NY project funded through January 31, 2004, the LSB staff in collaboration with the Syracuse City School District’s curriculum coordinators and teams of teachers as co-developers, revised interfaces and provided content for these tools.

These tools have been selected because they are scalable for large numbers of statewide users and relevant to standards-based instruction. We invite you to select any of the links on this page and check them out.

Feel free to send comments about the site to core@lsb.syr.edu

© 2003 The Living Schoolbook

Tools


 iBuz is a web-based collaborative communication tool that will connect teachers and administrators through communication and collaboration in an easy to use environment. There are two versions of iBUZ; one for K-12 classrooms and one for Professional Development communities.

Learn more about iBuz
Historical Documents is an electronic venue that promotes the access and sharing of historical documents for standards based instruction and assessment.
The New York State Watershed website is a vehicle for the entry and storage of water quality data collected by students from streams near their schools.
Educators from both rural and urban areas have come together with corporate partners, community agencies, university students and faculty to develop projects that support meaningful teaching and learning experiences in K-12 classrooms.