To be effective, though, students must have universal access on campus. Collaborative class projects based in technology teach teamwork and basic computer skills that are transferrable to other research and work settings. They also allow students alternative, creative methods of learning. Otherwise they tend to lose direction or mistake bright colors and graphics for bright ideas. Since few of us compose on a typewriter anymore, there is little reason to bind students' scholarly work to its limitations.
Good papers can remain online as study aids to future students.
The same caveats as for group presentation projects apply, plus one other. Students' tendency is to focus on research to the near exclusion of analysis.