Sharing the project
 
It's important that students have an audience for their work. The Internet is a wonderful tool for sharing. Many online projects such as Toshiba's Exploravision provide an environment for sharing. The keys to sharing are making it "real world" and worthwhile. For example, Mrs. Conlon's and Mrs. Silverman's classes shares with parents through their website.
 
Successful Projects
Successful projects relate to a number of basic strategies. First, keep it small. Look for specific outcomes and use templates to get students started. Add visual and auditory elements as you go. Consider interactivity and audience involvement.
 
Let's take a career project as an example. As you design a project, provide starting points for students such as informational resources and visual materials. Provide students with examples such as student work. Explore the following examples related to a careers project:
As you create your projects think about simple activities. Match the outcome to the activity you have in mind and use multimedia resources as a means to communicate messages in many different ways. Finally, share your project with other schools. For example, this class in Missouri shared Missouri Critters.
 
 
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Cactus Exploration
 
Explore some teacher pages to see how educators are organizing and sharing their online projects:

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 Created by Annette Lamb, 02/01.