You are teaching a class in the ILC about globalization and cultural impact. You have a Monday, Wednesday, Friday class of 30 students. Fridays are reserved for small discussion groups of 5 students each and are conducted in an online chat room with assigned questions for discussion. For the major project of the semester, you will have the students work in small groups to research and create a presentation to be shown to the whole class.

You assign several class readings that are on electronic reserve to further the students' understanding of the broad topic for the project. You give the students time in class and outside of class to brainstorm and think about possible topics for their small group presentations.

As students progress on their projects, you might have one class session in which:

• One group of students goes to the Info Commons to work with a technology preceptor to scan photographs to add to their PowerPoint presentation;
  
  
• One group meets in the Multimedia Lab in the IC with a lab assistant to learn how to add a short video clip to their project web site;
  
  
• One group meets with a librarian in the IC to do more in-depth research for their project;
  
  
• Two groups work independently in the IC on writing the text for their presentations (they are using the group's e-locker space to save their work in individual folders to be combined into one document later);
  
  
• One group meets with you in the evening, at your regularly scheduled online office hours in the class chat room to discuss the suggestions and comments you made on their first draft.

During the five weeks the class is working on their projects:

• You hold your office hours in the Info Commons to assist students with their research;
  
  
• Several individual students and one project group have contacted the librarian for more individualized help with their topic;
  
  
• The technology preceptor has helped most of the teams become comfortable with the software programs they need to create their presentations;
  
  
• The original video has been viewed in the Media Center by almost half of your students on an individual basis;
  
  
• Most students in your class have attended at least one of the walk-in technology workshops offered by the Info Commons staff on creating web pages and PowerPoint shows;
  
  
• One group of students has established an email relationship with a retired faculty member in another state who is an expert on their topic.

The groups present their final projects to the whole class. They are able to project their PowerPoint presentations and web pages in the classroom. One group that wrote a paper has created a video montage to illustrate their findings. The class grades each group's presentations and then evaluates this experience.