Streams OnLine Streams Online is a literacy tool aimed at improving student literacy. Students enter their work using a web based editing screen, in either HTML or text format. Students can also comment on each others' work using a similar screen. This creates an ongoing dialogue between students teachers, mentors, and guest artists that stimulates learning and thinking. Streams OnLine is designed to allow for collaborations between classes and schools.
Collaborations can include classes in multiple schools if there is appropriate email connectivity.
Multiple collaborations can be hosted on a single server machine. Original writings, commentary, and any multimedia materials provided by students must be approved by the student's teacher before they are visible to others in a collaboration. The system associates each student with a teacher. Teachers have an expanded menu that allows them to approve student work and access administrative functions such as adding new users and setting up new collaborations. Teachers can also edit the welcome screen and navigation bars.