As people receive the Traveling Buddy, they can e-mail your class or school and tell of its safe arrival. 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. 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.
As a host school for this project, sending electronic cards is a fun way to keep the project current for the participating schools. These cards can be seasonal greetings, reminders to visit your Web site for current events, or messages telling them where your Traveling Buddy is visiting. Once you have enough participants for your project, you need to ask them when their school vacations will occur. 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.