To use Endangered Traditions, you will need:

• Computers with Internet access
• (optional) Some kind of media player software downloaded on computers as some links require audio or video players for listening or viewing (i.e., Windows Media Player, RealPlayer, or QuickTime)
• Printers, preferably color

Here are suggestions for how to utilize Endangered Traditions if you have only one or a few computers with Internet access in your classroom:

• Place computers in easily accessible and supervised locations.
• Create stations or multiple activities, using computers as only one of the stations needed to complete assignments.
• All students assuming a role work together on the same computer.
• Rotate students from one station to another.
• Have students print out articles and read them at their desk (toner and paper are less expensive than additional computers).
• Print pages from the links for each role ahead of time.
• Borrow computers.
• Use the school computer lab.
• Have students do computer work on home computers.

If you have computers in the classroom but no access to the Internet:

• Use a program like Web Buddy or Web Whacker to download the web pages from your home computer and then copy them from disk onto computers at school.