This project, which is part of a GSTEP (Georgia Systemic Teacher Education Program) initiative, has two related purposes: to interest university students from the English Department of the University of Georgia in secondary school teaching by providing them with early, structured opportunities to interact with secondary school students; and to give high school students a preview of the university's ways of thinking and writing about literature. The project involved two aspects:

• communication among the groups
• a concrete product: The Tempest Book

The groups communicated at a distance by both synchronous and asynchronous means. The result of their discussion is a web-published introduction to The Tempest and its characters that was produced by Roger Bailey's 4th period AP English class in Oconee County High School. The teachers learned from this pilot project about differences of curriculum and pedagogy in university and high school settings. The students, we hope, both learned from and enjoyed the interactions and their results in the electronic book. We hope that in the future, similar collaborations will produce other sites like this one, constructed by actual classes for actual students.

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