Plan for variety of performance. Consider a blend of face to face, voice over video clips, Powerpoint presentations, document camera close-ups on items and the likes. Provide room for student voice and choice so that students can explore their own interests, abilities and values. Using the Web site We use our project's Web site to supplement conferencing sessions and to follow up on activities initiated during the conference itself. For example, Japanese students scan and enter into a digital gallery the Shodo art work they created during a tutorial session so that Australian students can more closely examine the techniques.
Photos taken of the groups appear, as do subsequent teaching resource materials.
Some Email 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. Online data entry will soon be available on the Web site. 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.