About

The Middle School Portal 2: Math and Science Pathways (MSP2) project supports middle grades educators with high-quality, standards-based resources and promotes collaboration and knowledge-sharing among its users. Educators use MSP2 to increase content knowledge in science, mathematics, and appropriate pedagogy for youth ages 10 to 15. MSP2 employs social networking and digital tools to foster dynamic experiences that promote creation, modification, and sharing of resources, facilitate professional development, and support the integration of technology into practice.

MSP2 also includes the development of virtual learning experiences designed for middle school aged youth through which young people increase their ability to explore, discover ideas, problem solve, think critically, communicate, use technology in a productive and responsible manner, and become globally aware. These experiences will help them become aware of educational pathways that lead to careers in science, mathematics, and technology.

MSP2 is a project of The Ohio State University College of Education and Human Ecology, School of Teaching and Learning, National Middle School Association, and Education Development Center, Inc., and is funded by the National Science Foundation. The partners integrate resources, tools, and services across projects, and support multiple methods of resource discovery to meet the needs of this audience.

Personal Information MSP2 Collects

MSP2 does not sell or share personal information of users with anyone outside of the project, UNLESS REQUIRED BY LAW.
MSP2 provides an opportunity for users to contact us through email or web-based forms. We use the personal information you provide only as it relates to answering your question. Records of how many people contact us per month are kept as well as the content of those contacts; however, individual information is not kept nor shared in any reporting process.

Nonpersonal Information Collected by the MSP2 Web System

Our web servers automatically record general information on all users who browse the content of our site. These data collection systems gather:
  • Your IP address
  • The Internet domain for your Internet service, such as company.com or school.edu
  • The type of connection you use to connect to the site (such as a modem or a local area network)
  • The type and version of the browser you are using to access msteacher.org (such as Netscape 5.0 or Internet Explorer 6.0)
  • The type and version of the operating system you use (such as Macintosh or Windows)
  • What version of JavaScript is associated with your browser, whether Java is enabled, and whether cookies are supported
  • Whether or not a page you are visiting is set as the home page on your browser
  • The address of the previous site you were visiting, if you linked to msteacher.org from another site
  • The pages you visit on the Middle School Portal 2 and the files you download
  • The date, time, and length of time of your visit.

The logs are periodically summarized and analyzed to study site usage over time to help us improve the site's organization, performance, and usefulness. This information is only examined in the aggregate, not at the individual level.

Copyright/Terms of Use

The Ohio State University holds copyright on all original materials we publish, including articles, catalog records, metadata, and photographs. However, all work is licensed under an Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported Creative Commons License. This means you are free to copy, distribute, transmit, and adapt the work under the following conditions:

  1. You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work).
  2. If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same, similar or a compatible license.

For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work. The best way to do this is with a link to the Creative Commons License. Any of the above conditions can be waived if you get permission from the copyright holder. Nothing in this license impairs or restricts the author's moral rights.

Disclaimer

Material in these pages is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0840824. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

The Middle School Portal 2 is not responsible for the content of any referenced web pages created by external parties. MSP2 does not necessarily endorse the companies or organizations featured on these pages. MSP2 provides links to other web sites when, in our judgment, information residing on these sites would be helpful to middle school teachers. We cannot assure that the content will remain the same. It is the responsibility of Internet users to make their own decisions about the accuracy, currency, and reliability of information found.

Address any questions about these or other policies to

Kimberly Lightle, PhD
Principal Investigator
Director of Digital Libraries
School of Teaching and Learning
College of Education and Human Ecology
Ohio State University
1929 Kenny Road, Suite 400
Columbus, OH 43210
(614) 688-3485
lightle.16@osu.edu