Peer reviews are not taken lightly. With a limit of one evaluation per school, peer reviews provide an opportunity for inter-school collaboration. Students as well teachers are empowered. Students put up a rough draft of the site asking outsiders for feedback. Teachers do not have to read everything their students write.
Students tend to respond to the comments of a real audience more seriously.
Teachers participating in CyberFair may receive two units of graduate extension credit from the University of San Diego. For those not ready for a year-long project, Community Share Web offers a series of monthly activities for creating Web pages where participants may describe a particular aspect of their community of which they are most proud. CyberFair veterans, on the other hand, may wish to participate in ThinkQuest, a global contest for student-built Web tools that help students use the Web for research, collaboration and publishing. It is a project of Advanced Network Services, a nonprofit that received a grant from National Science Foundation a decade ago to design the Internet backbone in conjunction with IBM, MCI and a consortium of universities. Students become experts on a particular topic, teaching others about it by creating a Web site as a learning tool.