Topics from the news, from a textbook, or from a student are available and ready for in-depth and across the curriculum use. A pounding heart and fast breathing are the side effects of using the Web in the classroom. Stimulating is the calm description. The sites that are used here, are from ThinkQuest is an international, educational Web site building contest for high school students. In 1998, students from over 64 countries participated.
Judges come from all over the world.
The sites are exciting, topical, informative, and often very beautiful. Teachers from grade schools to universities, from all over the world, use these sites in their classrooms. The sites are developed by teams of three students with a coach for each student. The teams often have members in different countries, sometimes all members are in different countries. The judging is based on how user friendly the site is, how well documented the information is, how well the team collaborats, how informative the site is, etc.