Some focus on participation for a finite period of time while others are relatively continuous in the way they support student involvement. Teachers are afforded the option of choosing the most meaningful way to integrate these collaborative projects into the instructional program. Finally, most collaborative web projects include significant off-line learning experiences. Guided by their curriculum and inspired by their students, elementary teachers have been creating a wide variety of innovative collaborative web projects. Collaborative projects continue to emerge as classroom teachers create new ways to develop web projects.
Some projects involve having classes publish their work on a project web page.
Others involve having students submit information toward the completion of a project. Finally, others involve various forms of e-mail communication for the sharing of stories, information, data, responses, etc. The following projects reflect just a small sampling of completed or ongoing collaborative projects. They are intended to provide a broad variety of topics and organizational options for teachers wishing to locate or design a web project. Two or three classes in different schools work together on a project Mouse Project Mrs. Gaines' Seneca, Missouri kindergarten class joins Mrs. Bullman's North Carolina kindergarten class to learn about mice.