Students establish informal contact with peers via e-mail prior to the event. They may be required to send some materials or work overseas through the regular post in preparation for a session. Plan for variety of performance. Provide room for student voice and choice so that students can explore their own interests, abilities and values. Shodo art work created during a tutorial session by the Japanese students is scanned and entered into a digital gallery so that Australian students can more closely examine the techniques for example.
Photos taken of the groups appear, as do subsequent teaching resource materials.
Some e-mail correspondence is published on the site so that the project development can be tracked thus serving as a model for other schools planning work in the same field. We will be exploring creative ways of making the web pages more interactive for students even if they never come close to face to face sessions. Like other technologies it acts as a valuable tool to meet particular learning situations. The hardware is as versatile as your imagination allows it to be. When planning a unit of work a new dimension is easily added that will provide students with an added interest and endless possibilities.