There are opportunities to post the data through a number of different web programs so different schools can share what they have done and found. Students working together as a group to determine what needs to be done on the project, and who and how it will be done. This is a community that exists without the teacher. Students and teacher exist in a community where the students rely on the teacher for guidance and motivation. Sometimes it is a software project, thinking of new resources, introduction to officials.
Negotiations take place between students and teacher to determine what needs to be done.
The teacher and the conservation district make up as community as they work together to gather data on water quality, and construct a website that will communicate effectively with the community around them. The farmers and the students make up a community. I realize that my project is missing energy because it is mostly a product of my interior thinking. It didn't benefit from the negotiation and energy of interactions with students. There was no participation with the students.