Types+of+Inquiry+Based+Online+Collaborative+Projects

Types of Inquiry Based Online Collaborative Projects
 ** INTERPERSONAL PROJECTS ** ** Examples ** 
 * ** Keypals ** - E-mail is exchanged electronically by individual students or classes.
 * ** Electronic Appearances ** - “Special guests” answer student e-mail or “chat” in real-time.
 * ** Question and Answer Services ** - Experts or authors answer students e-mail or blog posts
 * ** Electronic Mentoring/Telementoring ** - Subject matter specialists and other experts correspond with students.
 * ** Impersonations ** - Participants communicate “in character”. Characters on-line have included Thomas Jefferson, Santa Claus and numerous book characters.
 * [|Epals Book Club]
 * [|InterLink]
 * [|Peace Dairies]
 * [|The Way We Are]
 * INFORMATION COLLECTION AND EXCHANGE PROJECTS **
 * ** Information Exchanges ** - Book reviews, international eating habits, weather, recycling practices, tourist sites or other engaging topics.
 * ** Database Co-Creation ** - Information is collected into a database for use by other project participants.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">** Pooled Data Analysis ** - Information is collected and combined for analysis.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">** Electronic Publishing ** - Project participants produce a common document, such as a newspaper, poem or magazine. Can be collected and edited by groups on a wiki.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">** Tele-Fieldtrips ** – Classes share observations and experiences made during local field trips (to similar locations in different places). Classes may participate in organized expeditions (virtual or real) where daily logs are shared.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">** Examples ** <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;"> ** PROBLEM SOLVING PROJECTS ** <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">** Examples ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Back To Online Reading Comprehension Session
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Global Grocery List project]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|The Albatross Project]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">** [|Global Schoolhouse Online Expeditions] **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|EyeWitness to History]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|In2Books]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">** Information Searches ** - Clues are given and students use sources to solve problems.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">** Electronic Process Writing ** - Participants exchange and critique each other's writing. Professional writers offer constructive criticism to students during the writing process.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">** Sequential Creations ** - Participants progressively create a common written text, a shared visual image, or a collaboratively-constructed, co-edited text on a wiki.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">** Parallel Problem Solving ** – Problems are solved separately by participants in various locations. Whether it is a writing task, scientific experiment, or examination of survey results, both problem-solving methods and results are shared.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">** Virtual Gatherings ** – Students in different physical locations participate in a real-time meeting or simultaneously participate in similar activities at different project sites.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">** Simulations ** - Real experiences are simulated on-line.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">** Social Action Projects ** - Students explore and attack action-oriented projects that address important global issues. Students learn they can make a difference by becoming involved in protecting endangered animals, feeding hungry people or stopping violence in their communities.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">** Global Classrooms ** - Classrooms study a common topic together and share information.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Holocaust Genocide Project]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Stick Your Neck Out Project]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Schools Demining Schools]