- Function: Project Overview
Web sites can serve as succinct introductions to the goals
and operational structures for educational telecomputing projects.
EXAMPLES:
Project Del
Rio
The
Rope Pump Project
Women
of NASA Presents Women of the World
- Function: Project Announcement
Web sites can announce curriculum-based projects, inviting
participation and providing links to relevant networked resources.
EXAMPLES:
Express
Yourself in Science
Four Directions:
Electronic Mentoring Project
Global On-Line
Watershed Education
Math Pen Pals
Project
MayaQuest
'98
Oregon Trail
Online
Telementoring
Young Women in Science, Engineering & Computing
Wetlands
Project
Virtual
China
A
Vision
- Function: Project Instructions
Web sites can provide specific instructions to
telecollaborators on how to participate in the educational
project.
EXAMPLES:
Discover
Virginia!
First
Landing on Mars
FuturePlace!
("Build a Better Theme Park")
The
Great Go-Car Challenge
I*EARN
Learning Circles
Internet Geometry
Hunt
Inventions
Project
Kids
as Global Scientists: Weather Folklore
Life in the
Ocean Project
Midi Music
Relay
Mouse
Trap Powered Vehicle Challenge
Spinning
Around
- Function: Information Repository and
Exchange
Web sites can serve as vitual places for project
participants to exchange information.
EXAMPLES:
Classroom
Anatomy Online
The Great Penny
Toss
Hands
Across America
International
Home Remedies
KIDPROJ
Multi-Cultural Calendar
- Function: Context for Project-Related
Communication
Web pages can be co-constructed by project participants,
creating an open-ended form of multimedia communication.
EXAMPLES:
Canadian
National Marsville Program (All teams' Web pages)
Math.
Puzzles Tutorial (Electronic Emissary Telementoring
Project)
- Function: Project Support
Web sites can serve as organized collections of
project-related resources.
EXAMPLES:
CoVis: Learning Through
Collaborative Visualization Project
Electronic Emissary
Project
HP Email Mentor
Program
Interactive
Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Resource Home Page
Live
From Antarctica
Yukon
Quest Student Page
- Function: Project Chronology
Web sites can present chronologies of past and ongoing
project work.
EXAMPLES:
Benni the Bear
- Around the World!
Connecting
From the Ice
ExTerminator
Mystery Project
GlobaLearn
Hobart
- Malang Electronic Mail Project
The Magenta and School
Without Racism Boat Tour
Medieval
County of Wurtz
Telecommunications
Impersonation Project
- Function: Showcase of Participants' Works
Web sites can provide viewing space to share project
participants' creations.
EXAMPLES:
Jefferson
Online
Kids' International
Peace Museum
MidLink
Magazine
Shocked
E-Zine
The
VocalPoint Electronic Student Newspaper
- Function: Project Center
Web sites can serve as multipurpose centers, combining
several of the project-related functions listed above.
EXAMPLES:
- Function: Project-Spawning Service
Web sites can offer electronic services that can help to
initiate new curriculum-based telecomputing projects.
EXAMPLES:
Global SchoolNet's
Internet Projects Registry
Africa
Online: Kids
Classroom Connect's
Teacher Contact Database
Dave's
ESL EMail Connection
Electronic
Sister School Program
eMail
Classroom Exchange
Intercultural
E-Mail Classroom Connections
Virtual
Handshake