Students use the Internet as a tool to build cooperation and collaboration.
Karen Biddinger, a technology teacher from Evans Elementary School in Marlton, New Jersey, searched for a unique way in which students could learn about other states. The result is the online collaborative project that Biddinger calls Create A State. To date, students in 18 states have contributed to the project. This year, I wanted a project that would teach my fifth graders more about the states, something that's a big part of their curriculum. Although they knew a fair amount about their own state, they didn't know much about others.