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The use of technology to support integrated-content area projects is one of the major themes of "Integrating Technology for Meaningful Learning." We discuss project ideas and related technology tools and skills throughout the book and provide a summary of the project approach in Chapter 10.

A recent analysis (Oliver, 1997) based on 79 K-12 Internet projects provides a nice update and extension to Chapter 10. This article outlines seven common activities present in most student projects:

• pre-project planning,
• gathering information,
• sharing and communicating,
• data integration,
• constructing products,
• evaluation, and
• demonstrating and teaching.

The article makes liberal use of web examples (complete with URLs) to exemplify each type of activity and provides some very helpful URLs for locating of K-12 project opportunities.

Oliver, K. (1997, Nov/Dec) Getting online with K-12 Internet projects. Techtrends, 42(6), 33-40.