 Sample Projects: The Jane Eyre Gurus' English project Stage 1: Choosing a projectA team of four got together and decided to call themselves the "Jane Eyre Gurus". Their teacher required a document from them outlining the team and the project name. They completed the following document.
 Stage 2: Organizing the environmentThe Gurus met to decide how to structure their project conference. Their teacher gave them the following guidelines:
 Based on the requirements, this is the project conference they created.
 They have created a conference structure that allows them to:
• brainstorm using a conference they call Brainstorm
• gather information within a conference called Storage Room
• store deliverables in a conference called Completed Stages
• schedule meetings and manage tasks in a calendar
• hold meetings through instant messaging (Meeting Room)
• showcase the final product in a conference called Final Product.
Stage 3: SchedulingThe Gurus have scheduled their meetings and milestones in their group calendar.
 Stage 4: Conducting meetingsThe BrainBusters hold their meetings in person and online. Here is an online meeting they held recently.
 Students can see who is typing on the Participants tab. Students share files during the session by adding them to or downloading them from the Attachments tab.
 A transcript of each instant messaging session is saved to the Mailbox of the instant messaging session's creator when she closes the session. In this case, that person is usually the secretary. She then forwards the transcipt to the Storage Room conference.
 Stage 5: BrainstormingThe Gurus use their Brainstorm conference to communicate with each other when they are in different locations. They also use it to summarize brainstorming sessions. Here is the result of a brainstorming session they held recently. The secretary put their notes into a graphic organizer, and then posted the results to a conference so everyone could see and then build on the initial ideas.
Stage 6: Managing tasksThe Gurus use their calendar to manage each task. They track the details of each task, and it is always available for everyone to see.
 Stage 7: Collecting informationThe Gurus collect the majority of their information from the Internet, books, and an English studies newsgroup. They also fax photocopies of graphics into FirstClass and drag them into their Storage Room conference. Here is their Storage Room conference with some of the ideas they have gathered.
 Stage 8: Compiling the projectThe teacher gave the students a lot of freedom over their projects, so the Gurus used FirstClass documents to display their projects. They added backgrounds and graphics too. Here is a look at their compiled project.
 Stage 9: Presenting and showcasingEach team has to present their project to the class. The Gurus use a FirstClass presentation. Here are a couple of slides from their presentation.
  Stage 10: GradingAfter the teacher graded the projects, he handed back a grading sheet to each person. Here is a sample sheet he handed back.
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