The Mayors of Valparaiso An ongoing project in a school in northwest Florida is a study of the history of the mayors of the town. Students researched the mayors by talking to living people who had been mayors or were related to mayors, looking up information on landmarks named after mayors and many other methods. They put together the information in a website that is of great interest to the community there. Simulation Communication over the Internet without a visual aspect allows for some interesting simulations. Someone in the class, the teacher, or even someone outside of the classroom can play the part of a character from a book that the class is reading.
Students can take turns asking the character questions and sharing the answers they receive.
Another way to do this is to have an older student or class take the part of a historical figure. The participating class needs to ask them questions about their life and times and guess who the person is. There are many sites on the web where students can publish their work whether it is poetry, writing or some other type of creation. Some classes have even created projects where they publish other student's work. The class then becomes the editors.