Information Exchange Projects 4. Other Project Sources 1. You can participate in any of the ongoing projects, or design your own. Check out the pioneering articles on telecollaboration . The four projects summarized below are just a few of the many projects available at this great site.
All students use one another's facts to figure out where the others live.
They learn about travel, exchange rates, languages, customs and cultures through Woodsy's experiences, narratives, and photographs. At noon on a given day, schools around the world follow a procedure available on the Web site to measure the angle of the sun's shadow. By exchanging their measurements with students from another school at a latitude far enough away, the schools calculate the circumference of the earth. All participants' findings are posted for viewing, comparing, and learning. Students from around the world collaborate to solve real world problems and positively effect the resources and peoples around the globe.