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This site discusses the 5 best online rubric makers and how to use them.

Florida Virtual Schools (FLVS) has recognized the effectiveness of Project-Based Learning (PBL), and has been working to incorporate this transformative teaching strategy in its online courses. PBL has become increasingly popular in education as more classrooms K-12 incorporate it with their course material, similarly online learning as also assumed an increasing role in K-12 content delivery.

There is no doubt that the needs and requirements of our workforce are constantly changing. It is estimated that 80% of the jobs that will be part of the labor market in 2010 do not yet exist. For our children to be successful in future careers, the education they are receiving today must change. The traits parents should look for in online courses for their children - includes PBL

AnswerGarden - AnswerGarden is a new minimalistic feedback tool. Use it as a tool for online brainstorming or embed it on your website or blog as a poll or guestbook. Arcademic Skill Builders - Arcademic Skill Builders are online educational video games that offer a powerful approach to learning basic math, language arts, vocabulary, and thinking skills.

Another option, similar to Popplet that can work as an online visual bulletin board for students to gather inspiration from. Pintrest might work better as they can add to their own board and also search within other people's pin boards to pull ideas from. 

Excellent list!

Anyone else interested in blended learning? This site does a great job explaining how to effectively incorporate PBL in a blended or online learning atmosphere.

Assistments study data.

The project revolves around the energy produced in various types of chemical reactions (a key concept in all chemistry classes) and asks students to propose a useful source of chemical energy after engaging in a series of hands-on experiments and online activities. I appreciate how this project not only requires students to think deeply about their experimental results, but also how it asks them to apply them in a new context. Students not only collect and analyze data, they must seek a useful purpose or application of their results, giving the project real-world relevance.

"Chemistry and Conflict"

This article is old (1971) but from a foundational theorist in PBL. He discusses using projects to teach students to be mathematicians rather than just teaching or failing to teach them math. Link on Boise site: http://www.tandfonline.com.libproxy.boisestate.edu/doi/pdf/10.1080/0020739700030306

text adventure game  - for education

This is aimed at K12 Language Arts, but a good synopsis of online tools.