PBL Project Resources

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Project Based Learning's professional development site

Choosing the appropriate Web 2.0 tools to support project based learning can be a daunting task. However, integrating the use of these tools into a project can help teachers to effectively facilitate the design, assessment, and management of projects.

Possible authentic assessment and project management tools

Edmodo is a social learning platform that allows teachers to post messages, discuss classroom topics, assign and grade classwork, and share content and materials with their students. Dayna Laur, BIE National Faculty, will show you how to use Edmodo to manage projects in your classroom and how to network and exchange ideas with the Project Based Learning Community.

Possible project management tool

UniFlip converts your text from its original PDF form into an exciting, professional multi-media digital format with pages that flip.

Possible authentic assessment tool

Joomag features a powerful platform for creating digital interactive content, including magazines, e-books, catalogs, reports, brochures and photo albums. Features include an online viewer with realistic flipping effects and user friendly magnifying and panning features.

Possible authentic assessment tool

Collect, share and publish in a format designed to make your documents look their very best.

Possible authentic assessment tool

Create realistic newspapers with easy-to-use teacher-made Microsoft Word templates

Possible authentic assessment tool

Zinepal creates eBooks in the PDF, ePub, Kindle and Mobipocket formats. It's one of the easiest ways to make eBooks and printable PDFs from existing web content in order to reach additional audiences.

Possible authentic assessment tool

A sample project overview created by teaching partners Mary Mobley (English) and Michael Chambers (world history) Manor New Technology High School in Manor, Texas.

A breakdown of a three-week project called Controlling Factors that capitalized on the wild popularity among their students of the best-selling novel The Hunger Games. Built on specific English and world history state standards, the project covered concepts including the pre-World War II global economic crisis, the rise of totalitarianism, and the societal moral dilemmas that world leaders at that time faced, and then had students draw parallels to similar fictional themes in the book.

Resources and tools for project-based learning from educators from Manor New Technology High School in Manor, Texas.

Tony Vincent explains how mobile devices can play a big part in project based learning. Not only do they motivate students, but they also lend themselves to student voice and choice.

Tools for understanding the process of planning and building Project Based Learning lessons.

Educators at the Buck Institute for Education have identified eight essential elements of meaningful projects.

A variety of handouts for managing student interaction and assessing projects and presentations

The Buck Institute for Education's Project Overview scaffolds teacher planning for the entire project.

The Buck Institute for Education's Collaboration Rubric provides criteria for supporting student collaboration on the project.

The Buck Institute for Education's Project Teaching and Learning Guide scaffolds teacher planning for the project's assessments and necessary knowledge and skills.

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