 Worsley School OnLine was a pioneer in the area of collaborative projects; over the past several years, we have undertaken (and still maintain) various activities which bring together students and teachers from around Alberta, Canada, and the world.  During the 1998-99 school year, our e-pals project connected our grade 4/5/6 class with upper elementary classes in England, Australia, South Africa, and the United States, and saw our students begin e-mail friendships with children in these far-flung locales. Pictures and stories were exchanged, and what we learned was shared on our website with all the participants.After the conclusion of the project, some students maintained contact with their e-pals. Our long-running Collaborative Story has had input from students around North America, who have helped write one complete short story, and are in the process of building another. Our teachers, too, contribute pages to our site, in the form of classroom activity reports which are posted to our Yearbook Activities Pages. Our Science and Math section is a resource for both teachers and students, containing hundreds of pages on subjects in all the major fields of the sciences and math, both on and beyond the Alberta curriculum. Many pages encourage student interactivity, containing puzzles, contests, and quizzes designed to supplement in-class instruction. Our teachers make use of these resources as review or bonus topic assignments, and the quizzes are graded. In addition, various pages maintain on-going collaborative projects; for example, our Pi Experiment page encourages contributions from all our visitors. In addition, we are encouraging our own students to submit pages based on curriculum from their courses, to add to our collection of resources. We have a fair amount of material submitted by previous grade 9 classes, in both science and mathematics. The students researched and prepared the material themselves; some was submitted in the format of Word documents which we converted to html; other students coded the pages themselves. In a similar fashion, our Social Studies and Arts section maintains a growing collection of resources for students and teachers in the Language Arts, Social Studies, and Arts areas. An ongoing project we are particularly fond of is our Haiku Poem submission page. Our student Art Gallery displays the work of all our students, from Kindergarten through grade 12. Since 1996, our school and community calendar and monthly newsletter have kept students, parents, and community members informed about what's happening in Worsley and Worsley School. As more and more of our parents become connected to the World Wide Web, this service is greatly appreciated. Many of our parents, for example, now elect to get our school newsletter by email. Our Worsley community and school history page actively seeks out information and photographs that we can add to our vault! At the same time, we welcome former students and staff with our 'Old Friends' page, a very popular feature of our site. Another feature: find out who's been visiting Worsley OnLine ... take a world tour and follow the links to all the places in the world where our visitors come from! Worsley School OnLine is always growing (we add, on average, about ten pages per week, and update other pages daily), and constantly looking for new ways to involve its students, staff members, and community in on-line activities. We value your input; if you have suggestions or ideas you would like to contribute, please or drop by the school. And of course, enjoy our site while you're here!
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