Explanation is relatively limited. What you see is what you get. Museums, on the other hand, place a greater emphasis upon theme, interpretation and explanation. Galleries on the WWW provide schools with a fine opportunity to display and publish student writing and art. Museums can take us much farther, offering a chance for students to plan, develop and publish a multimedia collection around some question, topic or era which deserves exploration and illumination.
Students act as curators and designers.
Virtual museums surpass galleries in their capacity to support constructivist learning. Museums are the student work. On may be duplicated in hard copy format if unchanged in format and content for educational, non-profit school district use only. All other uses, transmissions and duplications are prohibited unless permission is granted expressly. Showing these pages remotely through frames is not permitted.