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Project-based learning can pose challenges for teachers as well as students, especially when both are new to this approach. As Bianca discovered, some project management skills may need to be taught explicitly. Formative assessment has to happen early and often, and a teacher needs to be ready with support for students who are struggling. Handing over responsibility to the learner happens gradually, not all at once. Good projects -- like real-life challenges -- also teach us about persistence. Figuring out what to do if you encounter challenges is part of the learning experience.

I recently followed a group of eight public high school students, aged 15 to 17, in western Massachusetts as they designed and ran their own school within a school. They represented the usual range: two were close to dropping out before they started the project, while others were honors students. They named their school the Independent Project. The students in the Independent Project are remarkable but not because they are exceptionally motivated or unusually talented. They are remarkable because they demonstrate the kinds of learning and personal growth that are possible when teenagers feel ownership of their high school experience, when they learn things that matter to them and when they learn together. In such a setting, school capitalizes on rather than thwarts the intensity and engagement that teenagers usually reserve for sports, protest or friendship.

Defines PBL and provides research, project guides, resources, and examples. 

An online charity through which public school teachers can post classroom projects and choose the ones for which they choose to donate. When the project reaches its funding goal , DonorsChoose.org delivers the requested materials to the school.

It's been about 10 years since Maine implemented its initiative, and while at least 33 states had experimented with one-to-one computing projects by 2007, none have reached the scope of Maine's project. As jobs and life increasingly involve computers, it's clear that in order to remain relevant to students, schools will need to adopt more technology. Here are six lessons about doing so successfully, taken from Maine's initiative.

Examples of projects that SLA has done. Each one has a little description and some have attached UbD unit plans, student work, etc.

This is a best practices example of Wikispaces for an English course or a reading club. This looks like the 21st Century skills and project based learning we have been toying around with

For this creative projects you have you may want to direct students to this site. It has a suite of free software that can enhance presentations and even pave the way toward digital storytelling (if that's where you're looking to go).

Buffy Hamilton's wiki space for her Media 21 Project. She shares her planning, collaboration, and student sample resources. 

One teacher goes with PBL.

use for CWS classes

Guided Inquiry: Learning in the 21st Century Carol C. Kuhlthau, Leslie K. Maniotes, and Ann K. Caspari Introduction to Guided Inquiry - what is it, what's new, why now?

Guided Inquiry: Learning in the 21st Century

A really cool way to look at your work in OneNote.  This add in allows you to see all of your pages at once from a "bird's eye view".

This comes under the topic "Shameless Promotion."

Or perphaps we can use this to start a dialogue. Quid putatis, discipuli, de notionibus imaginum ex atramentis permanentibus ponendarum in corporibus vestris? Si homines - et femini et masculini possunt hoc facere, quidni vos ipsi.