The anthology is produced by a team of teachers and students from several Victorian government schools. This is an ideal situation, as students are able to send their work to either project according to the time of year. While one hemisphere takes its summer vacation, the other is busy in the middle of their academic year. Many of the email projects I have worked on with a single partner have faltered because of the demands of the school year. Through no fault of the teachers, and despite the best intentions, the daily demands of a busy school schedule can destroy the most well-intentioned email partnership.
Many partners commit to a project, which is conducted on one of several conferences.
This enables partners to participate as frequently as every day or as infrequently as once when a unit of work is completed. All participants are able to read the submissions, which may be stored for 12 months or longer. It enables newcomers to avoid the problems of re-hashing material and questions that have already been addressed. The electronic conference enables teachers to fit the projects into their curriculum according to their time frame and the needs of their students. Projects can be used for a single period, one topic, the focus for a month or a semester.