Classes, homework slid straight to Internet as snow fell - washingtonpost.com

With the record snowfall this winter, classrooms across the Washington area have spent weeks on hiatus. But when classes have been canceled, some teachers have moved their lessons to the Internet and pressed on -- and they've been pleasantly surprised by the results.

At Albert Einstein High School in Kensington, history teacher Patricia Lynch Carballo looked out the window as the blizzard was about to hit earlier this month and knew she had to do something. Students around the world will take the International Baccalaureate's standardized history exam on the same day in May, and there's no chance for a change. So she told her students to keep doing their reading, posted quizzes online and led an online discussion via a virtual bulletin board. Many other teachers across the Washington area tried similar tactics...