June 2006: Seven Websites are online. The collaborations  have been different in time and methods, but all the hypertexts created on the literary works read, analysed and discussed are the result of the contributions offered in terms of messages, presentations, writings, drawings by the students who have taken part in this project. The project's Website is the "place" that contains all the materials produced by the students and is the explicit form of this collaboration. Behind the books' websites there are hundreds of forum messages and emails from both students and teachers, sometimes chats and videoconferences. Interaction has been the heart of the project.

Any problems? A lot, of course: the forums have not worked properly for many weeks; some classes could not respect the time schedule they had devised with their partners at the beginning of the year because of the things they had to do in their schools; some partners have completed only some steps of the project; and then ...strikes, holidays, exams.....

The point is that the project has come to its due completion with a lot of original work created by the students of 16 schools from 9 countries who have worked together by using the potentials of the computers as means of communication.

May 2006: The Andromeda Strain: A lot of writings and images have come to the coordinator both from the Hungarian and the Italian students. All of them have been linked to the working area so that all the participants could read and comment them.

The Canterville Ghost - Last messages on the teachers' forum concerning the last step of the project. Unfortunately the Chinese students haven't taken part in the last part of the collaboration, but their comments and ideas posted on the forum have been useful as well to build the texts of the final Website.

Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde - A message from the coordinator to the three teachers:

Hi everybody!!!

Hi friends!!! I see you are working hard and...I hope I will be able to do my best to complete our website in time. I have received a wonderful drawing from Geeta created by a students of hers. I have already used it in one of the pages that will form the final website of your book. Please send me all the works by your students as soon as you can......

Love

Daniela

Love songs - The Italian students have written four lyrics for new songs. The Chinese students will see them on the project's Website. Some students are keeping in touch with their Chinese friends via email.

April 2006: The Andromeda Strain: messages between the teachers to organize the work of the last steps. Messages from the sudents.

The Canterville Ghost - Holidays and....work.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - The Italian students have developed the points listed in the proposal of March, unfortunately the other two classes could nor take part in this final step. Anyway the works produced by the Italian students is the result of the contributions of the three schools expressed in the 157 messages posted in the forum discusson's areas.

Italy-Israel - The students have posted their answers on the forums. See The Italian forum and the Israeli forum.

Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde - Problems with the forum have interrupted the fruitful exchange. Now it seems that things are better.

March 2006: Andromeda Strain - presentations from the students and messages between the teachers to find the topics to develop.

The Canterville Ghost - The working groups are formed by the Italian and French students.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Proposal containing topics to develop and groups to form for the final steps of the project.

Italy-Israel - Pirandello's Website is online. The Israeli students have written three dilemma questions inspired by the story "Shoes" by Etgar Keret and the Italian students have written three dilemma questions inspired by the story "When you realize" (Quando si comprende) by Luigi Pirandello. Now they will answer them and will post their messages on their forums.

Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde - A lot of exchanges between the teachers and the project's coordinator to organize the final steps.

Love songs - New presentations ore linked to the working area.

February 2006: The book "Congo" has been changed with "Andromeda Strain" by Michael Crichton.

Canterville Ghost - the students are completing their reading and preparing the list of topics to develop in the last steps of the project.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - the students have almost finished reading the book and they are about to begin the book analysis. In the meantime they are writing their comments about the chapters they have read on the forum's discussion areas. 

Italy-Israel - the Italian class is building up the site, that will deal Pirandello's life, historical background, Pirandello and humour, along with some specific topics about "Quando Si Comprende". Messages on the forum from the students.

Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde - The forum now has a wide variety of discussion areas , some of them containing many messages. The teachers are working on how to organize the future activities and discussions on the forum. Quite low the present activity but still alive because of the past holiday.

Love songs - The Italian students have completed the new presentations of the second group of songs . Soon the 3 groups of students will present their work in class and eventually send them to the Chinese students .  The forum is starting to reach its normal activity and message exchanges (a lot of messages).

January  2006: A new tandem has started working composed of  an Italian class and a Hungarian class that have decided to read togeher  "Congo", written by Michael Crichton.

In The Italy-Israel tandem the Italian class has translated the Israeli story "Shoes" by Etgar Keret in Italian and the Italian story "Quando si comprende" by Luigi Pirandello in English . The Israeli class had a lecture given by the cinematography teacher and saw some fragments from the movie "Kaos".

November - December 2005: A lot of messages have been posted on the forums of the groups both from the students and from the teachers. The tandem working on the love songs (Italy and China) have had two videoconference sessions on the  28th November (photos) and on the 5th December (photos). New Italian teachers are looking for partners to start working in January.

A new tandem has been formed: Italian students from Castellammare di Stabia (Naples) and Turkish students from Ankara (Turkey) will work on the book "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens. At the moment there are 6 groups at work, the schools involved are 13!

A lot of photos and works from the students are linked on the working areas page (Working areas).

October 2005: Five groups are at work at the moment, here they are:

1) Chinese students from N. 171 Middle School (Beijing), French students from Lycee Condorcet (Bordeaux) and Italian students from ITIS "S. Cannizzaro"  (Colleferro) are collaborating to work on the book: "The Canterville Ghost " by Oscar Wilde.

2) Indian students from St.Mark's School (New Delhi), Turkish students from Turk Egitim Vakfý Anatolian High School (Denizli), Italian students from Liceo Scientifico "Leonardo da Vinci" (Milano) are collaborating to work on the book: "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" by Rober Louis Stevenson .

3) Italian students from ITIS "S. Cannizzaro" (Colleferro) and Israeli students from Ramat-Gan (Tel Aviv) are collaborating to work on the stories: "Shoes" by Etgar Keret and "Come si comprende" by Luigi Pirandello.

4) Italian students from ITIS "S. Cannizzaro" (Colleferro) and Chinese students from Jingshan School (Beijing) are working on the project "Songs' Lyrics".

5) Italian students from ITIS "S. Cannizzaro" (Colleferro),  Polish students from Samorzadowe Gimnazjum we Franciszkowie (Warminsko-Mazurskie), Chinese students from N. 1 High School (Tianjin) and Malaysian students from Garden International School (Kuala Lumpur)  are working on the book "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl.

The students have posted their personal presentations on the forums and the groups 1,2,5 are reading the books and posting their impressions about it.

The schools of group 3 are reading the books in original language.

Group 4 is analyzing the lyrics of some love songs.

September 2005: Teachers of many countries (Italy, France, Israel, India, Turkey, Austria, Poland, Romania) are exchanging messages on the general forum and via email to create new reading tandems. The coordinator is preparing the webpages and the communication areas for this year's project. 

August 2005: "The world in a book" is one of the five shorlisted projects of the 5th  AEC (Asia-Europe Classroom) Conference that will be held in Beijing (China) from 25th  to 29th September 2005.