Effective practices associated with online, collaborative projects:

1. Joining a teacher more experienced in online projects for the first several online collaborative projects between classrooms in different countries
2. Planning projects sufficiently far in advance to permit all partners to prepare
3. Ensuring commitments from project partners
4. Communicating regularly between teachers
5. Having clear time lines in advance
6. Using multiple communication tools, in addition to email, such as wikis, blogs, and video conferencing
7. Using a project website to showcase student work and help to engage other classrooms in collaboration.