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Does anyone know if there is a free option for educators? Anyone using this with students yet?

web-based project management software for planning, tracking, collaborating and managing. Commercial but you can sign up for 1 project free. Looks promising. Not sure if there is a deal/free option for educational users or not.

abpc wiki: PBL resource page

support materials wiki for multi-ay workshop on Project Based Learning and Technology.

windows-only project management software (open source)

Getting What You Ask For: Creating Effective Assessment Tools for Projects, Personnel, and Program. session houndouts on checklists and rubrics for pbl, prof dev, pgm mgt

A visual way of representing the timeline and required work processes for a project.

This is one some staff in Mid-Del schools have used. Probably the first open source project management solution I'd go with.

Merriam-Webster's dictionary defines authentic as genuine and real.6 Lebow described authentic activity as "experiences of personal relevance that permit learners to practice skills in environments similar to those in which the skills will be used."7 Brown, Collins, and Duguid described authentic activities as the "ordinary practices of the culture."8 According to Newmann and Wehlage, authentic activities are real-world tasks that a person can expect to encounter on the job, in the home, or in other social contexts.9 An important implication of these definitions is that authentic activities have the potential to foster meaningful intellectual accomplishment and learning, since authentic learning activities are directly related to students' real-life experiences.

Curriki is an open content project for curriculum, and now supports browsing different content area groups.

Has anyone used Curriki yet to submit and share a PBL project?

reference to a longer essay by Mark Lilly & Tim Rahshulte. Good rules re planning, communicating, learning, in project management

reference to a longer essay by Mark Lilly & Tim Rahshulte. Good rules re planning, communicating, learning, in project management. "Projects require cooperation, collaboration, and coordination."

Re-inventing Project-Based Learnin

A great online youth project for photography to get your kids into