Students from Sherwood School District in Sherwood Oregon.

Student quotes:

• "They're really going to listen to us and let us choose sites to save? We're eight!"
• "I was surprised that we could create such a helpful collection of websites for others to use, so easily."
• "The program was not about just saving the websites and links but archiving those for future usage and preventing from losing data."
• "I was surprised by the fact that people from next generation will also share the information that I have collected."
• "That a long time from now, probably hundreds, maybe even thousands of years in the future may need to research about our generation which is something I have never really thought about before. There may be people looking back on what is now the future of our society, and without this project, there would be no record of us, and we'd just be dust in the wind."
• "The most important thing that I learned from this project was that people do actually care about what my generation thinks."
• "I didn't know you could find so many primary resources online. I always thought you had to find books and other documents and it was surprising to find a lot of primary sources on the Internet."
• "Before this project, I was under the impression that whatever was posted on the Internet was permanent. But now, I realize that information posted on the Internet is always changing and evolving."
• "I realized just how interconnected the Internet is, when just 40-50 websites can link millions of pages."
• "I find it very interesting that you can look back on old websites and see how technology has progressed. I want to look back on the sites we posted in the future to see how things have changed."

Teacher Quotes:

• "The program has great buzz among the parents who are very proud that their children are so important as to participate. I think this offers learning in so many areas and that this is truly a 21st century activity relevant to our digital learners."
  - Neme Alperstein, NYC Public School 174 Queens
• "Looking at the other sites created by colleagues. The discovery that our world is just a little bit bigger than our little city and there are people out there that have the same interests and unique interests! Students really enjoyed hearing the other students from schools across the country during our meetings.
  - Camille Kavon, CAPE Charter School
• "The greatest benefit of the project as I see it has been my students' heightened awareness of the internet as an historical artifact and digital footprints. Before this project, they seem to only have thought of the internet as part of the here and now."
  - Darshell Silva Urban Collaborative Accelerated Program
• "The students gained an understanding of how history is understood through the primary sources that are preserved and therefore the importance of the selection process for what we are digitally preserving. But, I think the biggest gain was their personal investment in preserving their own history for future generations. The students were excited and fully engaged by being a part of the K-12 archiving program, an international web site, and that their choices were being preserved for their own children someday to view."
  - MaryJane Cochrane, Paul VI Catholic High School
• "Before participating in this project, our students looked upon Web sites as being gospel truth and probably had little understanding of the ephemeral nature of online content. Participation in this project has resulted in students having a better understanding of the importance of archived Website for documenting an era."
  - Margaret Lincoln, Lakeview High School
• "The K-12 Web Archiving project introduced my students to historical thinking; awareness of digital data as a primary source and documentation of current events and popular culture; and helped foster an appreciation and awareness of libraries and historical archives."
  - Patricia Carlton, Eustis High School
• "[The students] were enchanted by the notion that an era would be digitally preserved and they admitted they had never thought of the temporal nature of web sites. It was a realization as they looked at archived sites and then went to sites that have been updated. They had never really thought of the ever changing web as documents lost as they were modified by time."
  - Neme Alperstein, NYC Public School 174 Queens
• "I think it was certainly an enriching experience. I like that it allowed them to see and examine their lives and Internet content as history in the making."
  - Emily Patterson, George Washington High School
• "I think [students] now see what they do as future history. They realized just how fragile their history is because of the amount of digital communication that they do."
  - Paul Bogush, Moran Middle School
• "[I was surprised by] the amount of insight I obtained about my students as people, not just students. I was pleased to get to know a different part of them that I would not have known without this project."
  - Juanita Douglas Thurman, Lincoln Park High School