Participating schools can write a diary of events that occur everyday or every other day and send it to you by e-mail. You can forward this message to all of the collaborating schools about the events that the Traveling Buddy is experiencing. You can forward images of the Traveling Buddy to all participating schools by electronic mail. Pictures traveling over e-mail are best sent in GIF or JPG format. Before you send attachments, you should ask the participants if they want or are able to receive these attachments.
Some schools have e-mail software that is unable to read attached files to messages.
As a host school for this project, sending electronic cards to all participants is a fun way to keep the project current for the participating schools. These cards can be seasonal greetings from you to them, reminding them to visit your web site for current events, or telling them where your Traveling Buddy is visiting. Once you have enough participants for your project, you need to query them on when their vacations will occur such as Christmas and spring break. Allow extra time for travel during those vacation periods. A suggested itinerary would be to allow one week for the Traveling Buddy to be mailed and one week to visit each participating school.