Encourage staff to develop lesson plans to complement the numerous virtual tour sites available over the Internet. Have students use this web site to sharpen their problem solving skills and develop problems for other students to solve in class. Teams of students can utilize posted challenges in several categories to pair up with another team and engage in a problem-solving dialog. When an agreement has been reached, one solution to the problem can be posted for every team. There are several sites acting as multimedia encyclopedias of information on a given subject.
Students use the computer as a tool for internet research, organization, and presentation.
Design a referential web page about your language classroom where students download notes and use links for detailed references, parents check in to help children with assignments and keep informed on classroom events, and teachers worldwide use lessons and slide presentations you've designed in their own classrooms. Create a language arts web-page that houses all of the great units that you use as well as great units that you know about. This page can then be used as a resource by other language arts teachers. Have students learn about as well as participate in an online exploration of the ancient Near Eastern, Egyptian, Greek, and Roman cultures. Take virtual tours of places that you have studied.