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Create notes in your own workspace wall. You can save your workspace at any time and return to them from the same computer or any other computer. You can also share your notes with others by providing the workspace name (or url) to a friend.

(Author note: I piloted this project in the spring of 2005. The following description offers a detailed look at how the project evolved.) Week One The project begins by giving students the project sheet ( Appendix I.1.1) and breaking students into their project groups (pairs whenever possible).

Editor's Note: Today's guest blogger is Don Doehla, French teacher and instructional coach at Vintage High School in Napa, California. Don recently stepped up to become the new facilitator of our World Languages group. He's got some great ideas for teaching world languages, including the use of project-based learning.

This is a great article about conducting professional development workshops for teachers through PBL. Too often, as the article notes, professional development is delivered through direct instruction, but then those who put on the PD expect teachers to do things different in their own classrooms. PD specialists must model what they expect their students - which happen to be teachers - to do in their own classrooms.

A simple explanation of the two PBLs by John Larmer (Gold Standard PBL). Side note: I wonder what Zombie-based learning entails...

A blog response from the editor of the Buck Institute that helps clear up the differences

This article succinctly points out why PBL can be so difficult to initiate into a school system. The author notes that our educational systems reward obedience over innovation. Worth thinking about how that can be changed.