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Taboo
Topic No Longer
Why
Telecollaborative
Projects Sometimes Fail
By Judi Harris
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It’s time to tell the truth:
K–12 online
activities sometimes falter. Why does this happen? What
valuable
lessons can we learn from “developmentally
delayed” projects?
Telecollaboration
Opportunities
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valid when
this issue of L&L went to press. We have
no control
over these sites, though, and the Web is very volatile.
Please let
us know if you find a broken link, and we’ll do our
best to
update it.
“Designing
Collaborative Projects for the Internet” by Terry
Kerns offers
readable, realistic advice.
 www.techlearning.com/db_area/archives/WCE/archives/kerns1.htm
The
Electronic Emissary is a K–12 telementoring project
that has
supported more than 400 curriculum-based projects to date.
In the
seven years that the Emissary has been online,
approximately 70%
of our actively facilitated projects have been completed,
mirroring
Kerns’s experience.
www.tapr.org/emissary/
Suggestions on how to design Web-based project spaces are available
in chapter four of Virtual Architecture: Designing and Directing Curriculum-Based
Telecomputing (ISTE, 1998).
http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~jbharris/Virtual-Architecture/
Hoquiam
School District in southwestern Washington
http://www.hoquiam.k12.wa.us/
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Judi Harris (judi.harris@mail.utexas.edu),
associate professor in curriculum and instruction at
the University
of Texas-Austin, directs the Electronic Emissary
(www.tapr.org/emissary/).
She has written four books and more than 140
articles. Her
most recent books are Virtual Architecture:
Designing
and Directing Curriculum-Based Telecomputing
(1998, ISTE)
and Design Tools for the Internet-Supported
Classroom
(1998, ASCD).
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in Education).
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