This is the notion of developing a portfolio. The write-ups call for summary, synthesis, explanation, presentation, and communication. The process attends to the NCTM assessment standards. As this class is currently taught, we meet in a MacIntosh computer enhanced classroom with student workstations and a teacher workstation with a Chisholm projector. All of these computers are on the Mathematics Education zone of the campus Ethernet and thus have access to the Internet.
Few teachers have Internet access in their classrooms today.
More have the access somewhere in their school but seldom is it functional for anything related to classroom instruction. Almost all have access to the Internet at home. Each student has an e-mail account. An Internet server is maintained and each student has a folder on the server. Any work they want to submit, formally or informally, is transferred to that folder via the Ethernet if they are on campus or by FTP transfer from home.