We have assembled a wide array of PBL-related resources created by BIE and collected from fellow PBL travelers. The resources are organized into three broad categories: things to read, to watch, or to interact with.
If you would like to take a Do-It-Yourself (DIY) approach to learning about PBL, then check out the recommend resources for teachers, coaches, principals, and district leaders. The featured resources have a note on "How Can You Use It?" We also suggest starting your DIY experience by purchasing one of BIE's books.
I love this site. This site provides a safe online space for children to upload their art, craft and design creations to share with the whole world. For teachers, it is a great place to find inspiration for your own class projects.
http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Art%2C+Craft+%26+Design
The DIY online club awards badges (called 'Skills' on the site) to students and kids of all ages in exchange for completing tasks. DIY Makers share their work with the community and get patches for the Skills they earn. Each Skill consists of a set of Challenges that help them learn techniques to get the hang of it. Once a Maker completes a Challenge, they add photos and video to their Portfolio to show what they did.
The Institute of Making is a multidisciplinary research club for those interested in the made world: from makers of molecules to makers of buildings, synthetic skin to spacecraft, soup to diamonds, socks to cities. Annual membership of the institute is available to all UCL staff and students.
Our programme of symposia, masterclasses and public events explores the links between academic research and hands-on experience, and celebrates the sheer joy of stuff.
Its mission is to provide all makers with a creative home in which to innovate, contemplate and understand all aspects of materials and an inspiring place to explore their relationship to making.
At the heart of the Institute of Making is the Materials Library - a growing repository of some of the most extraordinary materials on earth, gathered together for their ability to fire the imagination and advance conceptualisation. A place in which makers from all disciplines can see, touch, research and discuss, so that they can apply the knowledge and experience gained to their own practice.
Alongside the collection is the MakeSpace - a workshop where members and guests can make, break, design and combine both advanced and traditional tools, techniques and materials."
DIY Lesson plans and materials for K12 and above. Very cool platform. Example project:
USE MAKEY MAKEY TO DESIGN A VIDEOGAME CONTROLLER
Students design and make controllers with clay, Play-Doh, bananas, or whatever they desire and link their controller through circuits to their laptop with this innovative circuit board kit.
GRADE LEVEL: 4-9
Created by
Agustin Molfino
Curriculum Writer
PLATFORM TYPE LIKE SHARE
Very cool: offline campus focused on open online education and DIY learning principles.
"What We Do
The idea is simple. Online and DIY learners unite at a beautiful mountain resort to live an extraordinary lifestyle in a dynamic community of smart and motivated people."
What to do on a maker-workshop? Here some ideas for organizers.
Make music with Makey Makey
CNC cut marble track
Program with Arduino
Illustrate your dreams
Build your own microscope and test the Berlin Water Quality
A video game about the city's future development
Grow roots and wings with Toywheel
Furniture design with a laser cutter
Dancing drones (a Dronenschwarm through a Web browser program)
Robots upcycled
A video game about the city's future development
Kids have a dream
Grow roots and wings with Toywheel