One teacher began a short unit on soap that turned into an eight-week investigation that included graphing, writing, and comparisons of different soaps, their properties, and their bubbles. Students at the Levering School in Philadelphia take their scientific inquiries into cyberspace. Projects like these encourage the use of the Internet, as students look up needed information and teachers share methods by email, but the breakthroughs come as much in the way teachers are teaching. These teachers used to spoon feed bits of information at a time, but now they're able to deviate from that. An Impact Beyond the Classroom Blanc, who has created a series of case studies , also has seen effects on teachers outside the classroom.
Teachers use email to talk about project ideas with the museum staff.
They use it to communicate with the principal. They report that they use it to schedule meetings, to communicate with curriculum specialists, to talk to parents, or to follow-up on student progress. Teachers are also using Web pages. I have several book marked and visit them weekly. The most important thing may be the annotations that show how teachers got kids to produce this wonderful stuff.