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"Google Drive has recently announced the addition of add-ons to its features. These are third party extensions that you can install on your Drive to enhance its performance.I have been trying out some of these add-ons and decided to feature three of them here. The add-ons I selected are ideal for helping students improve their  writing."

"Please see the (link) New York Says Thank You and The 9/12 Generation Project Hurricane Sandy School Penny Drive! WE WOULD LOVE TO HAVE YOUR SCHOOL PARTICIPATE! We are looking for a huge push through the next 30 days as a second round of storms are on the way this week!!    We will have updates on NY and NJ schools latter this week at www.912generationproject.org and on our Facebook page! Over the next 30-60 days we will also have a more detailed needs assessment completed with projects that meet specific needs but at this time the 912GP Hurricane Sandy Penny Drive is the quickest way to provide fuel, lumber, cleaning supplies, and meals, etc. Please feel free to contact me with any questions you may have. We look forward to working with you and your youth! Remember to send us your stories and your goals and we will keep you updated on the recovery!!    Best,  Lori   Lori Sullivan The 9/12 Generation Project*Project Manager/ Educator New York Says Thank You Foundation lori@newyorksaysthankyou.org"

After you've hooked your students on the PBL with a special entry event, and you've done the initial launch of the PBL with the driving question, you then go into gathering the Need to Know List of questions of the students. First, students need to understand what good questions are. (Bloom's is a good starting point). Then they should ask questions about the content, the skills, and the process required in the PBL.

Awesome on authentic learning.

This global collaborative project at http://ciese.org/curriculum/squareproj/ -- Registration closes SEPT 30 Driving questions: Why HERE and not THERE? Presents students with a world map and two animals/insects from different areas (EG Monarch butterfly and Australian stick insect specimens). Pose a challenging question: Why here and not there? Why there and not here? How can we find out? Register class on Square of Life, an Internet-based collaborative project that has students investigate their local environment and share information with students from around the world. Students examine a square yard of local ground and organize what they find into categories they define themselves: living and nonliving, plants and animals. Through close examination, they organize small creatures into groups by shared characteristics, and learn to discriminate between classes of animals, including insects and isopods. Theorize about the role of habitat and niche in insect distribution. Share their findings with Australian students (or students from around the glove) and report their conclusions about Why here and not there? Why there and not here?

Google Drive Apps and Microsoft Office FREE tutorials (screenshots) The tutorials were developed through a research study funded by the U.S. Dept. of Education

Driving question: How do we describe motion and change in our world scientifically? In the Rube Goldberg Project, students will build a Rube Goldberg Machine (by definition, "of, relating to, or being a contrivance that brings about by complicated means what apparently could have been accomplished simply....") and explain the phyics of motion in that machine. Some examples of rube goldberg devices in the past, in both movies and pop culture, are the device that Pee Wee Herman uses to make breakfast in the movie "Pee Wee's Big Adventure," or the game "Mousetrap." Students will be able to explain and demonstrate the physics of motion (specifically Newtons Three Laws, Velocity, Acceleration, Kinetic and Potential Energy, and Momentum) through running their machine and will be able to calculate the velocity, acceleration, and energy generated by their machines as they run to complete simple tasks. They will have a working knowledge of simple motion equations and how to calculate in real life situations. This project has activities, assessments and resources included Requires a considerable amount of time and materials, but very engaging and student centered

What an easy way for students to share documents and teachers to keep track of them. See the sections on "How to use folders as student turn-in folders" and "How to use forms to turn in assignments"

I always love learning from Ledesma. Here's another one that I so agree with.

turn forms into doc or pdf and automated email

Here's my notes from the PBL session from ISTE13.

Thanks for sharing! There are some great ideas. I did the Marshmallow Challenge at the beginning of the year. It was a blast. I had a student come in the next day and tell me he had talked about it with his older sister, and the next time, he would have a better plan a build the tallest tower. What? Something happened at school and you went home and talked about it?!

I really like your xtranormal presentation. Well worth the effort you put into it!

Xtra normal is a great site to use!!! To bad they are charging to use it now, my students liked it but not sure they would pay now to use it for the reports....

I've never even heard of xtranormal! Great inclusion. Using both that and the youtube AND including them in a Prezi show how we can use different forms of tech together. Great job. I wonder what other resources would fit in as seamlessly?

Easy to use tutorials for Google Docs & folders for sharing & a few more features (such as voice comments)