Last year, the Second Grade teachers at GWC participated in a Monster Project Wiki. I just ran across this presentation about the same project on the K-12 Online Conference, and thought you might want to view the way the creators of the project implemented it from start to finish.
http://dotsub.com/media/683f3a09-fdf2-44ed-9398-973d7c0d212c/e/m
Monster Project Presentation at K-12 Online Conference
Teaching with Technology 