Ideas+for+Encouraging+the+Collaboration+of+Students

*Aside from being a generic research project in which the students can gain an abundance of knowledge, this webquest can be used to collaborate students in the following ways:
1) Encourage the students to form "debate groups" about which geometer was more influential for their time (Ex: Euclid vs. Lobachevsky). 2) Allow students to make multimedia projects, using podcasts, videos, and other forms of technology which can be transferred on the net to different students with different cultural backgrounds. 3) Assign students the role of a geometer and have them write letters or something of the sort to other students in the school or nation-wide that would also be doing this activity. 4) Have students research current geometers/mathematicians and present their findings in a creative fashion that involves technology (blog, webquest, youtube).
 * Have these debates turn into a fun and educational competition in which groups of students try to get their geometer to be "the greatest of them all"!


 * These are just a few ideas on how a teacher can encourage collaboration between students in class, outside of class, and nation-wide (there are many more!).