Other groups respond to the original message. Some teachers establish listservs for their classes to automate the mail handling aspects of e-mail exchanges. In schools where networked classrooms and labs are not available or where most students live off campus and do not have easy access to computers, collaborative e-mail is hard to manage unless teachers reserve class time for this activity. When class time is not available, teachers might make due dates more flexible, allowing a week for individual or group response. We can create and display Web pages that never go to the Internet but that look like those that do except for active links to actual Internet sites.
Students can open their HTML documents as files through browser software on their hard drives.
If your students do not have the Internet or an internal network, they can still have the advantages of creating hypertext for individual and group projects. Use any basic Web page development tool to create the hypertext files. My students use Windows Notepad and Netscape and a site I set up for them, Building a Basic Home Page with HTML and can photocopy as a handout. This process works in classrooms with only one computer, in non-networked classrooms, and with disk exchanges as well as with networked computers. It can be done at a distance with e-mail as well.