Check this out! If only it were possible to implement this kind of thing here!
Miss Baker's Biology Class
There was an article about this website in the Scientist online. The technology's there, and besides giving them an interesting assignment based in the real world, it's such a useful way to get students started on writing, referencing and online etiquette early. I distinctly remember being unable to reference properly at the age of 17 (my final year of high school), as my physics teacher had set an assignment with that as one of its requirements, a requirement that the entire class failed...
There was an article about this website in the Scientist online. The technology's there, and besides giving them an interesting assignment based in the real world, it's such a useful way to get students started on writing, referencing and online etiquette early. I distinctly remember being unable to reference properly at the age of 17 (my final year of high school), as my physics teacher had set an assignment with that as one of its requirements, a requirement that the entire class failed...