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It's been a busy three weeks in my BTT class. The teams have started their projects and are running fast with them. I love watching kids struggle. No - not because I want them to suffer, but because wrestling with an idea or task both deepens their learning and develops true self-confidence - nothing like succeeding at something hard to make you believe in yourself.

Australian outfit Bridge 8, who have the admirable mission of devising "creative strategies for science and society," and animator James Hutson have created six fantastic two-minute animations on various aspects of critical thinking, aimed at kids ages 8 to 10 but also designed to resonate with grown-ups. Inspired by the animation style of the 1950s, most recognizably Saul Bass, the films are designed to promote a set of educational resources on critical thinking by TechNYou, an emerging technologies public information project funded by the Australian government. The animations - which are part Minute Physics, part The Dot and the Line, part 60-Second Adventures in Thought - are released under a Creative Commons license and cover the basics of logic and the scientific method, as well as specific psychological pitfalls like confirmation bias and Gambler's Fallacy.

Innovation is a key ingredient to authentic PBL. We must take risks, be prepared to experience failures, learn from them, persevere, endure criticism from skeptics and other curmudgeons, if we are going to make a difference. Never give up!

Microsoft dynamics training has become an essential part to cope up with the present competitive trend of industrial sectors.

In our childhood we all had flew remote airplanes which were a very common toy of those days. Now a day this remote airplane is coming with advanced technology features like sensors, monitors, chips, battery backup etc. and named as 'Drone'. Now after the IoT, Drones are so new which is typically tracked by mobile industry market research to shape up the new ways of users and app developers.

Concession Creation. Relates to 7th grade ratios and proportions, including percent mark-ups and tax, and algebraic equations.

Through same day loans, you will never have any trouble sorting out monetary issues that come up all of a sudden. The loans are made available to almost all the applicants and the best possible way to derive the loans would be to apply online.

Bottom line the assessments need to be a tool to measure learning and growth and not as a way that set students up for failure. Assessments need to be used by the teacher as well as the student to guide student learning. Assessments are a tool and   not an end to themselves

Edutopia post about sticking with PBL, even when it's hard, with hat tip to Bianca's Blog.

When people ask about the inspiration for our style of videos, I often say that our videos reflect the way that I wish I had learned in school. My learning style wasn't a good match for the way I was taught. Recently we completed a custom video project with the Buck Institute for Education (BIE) that focuses on a Project Based Learning or "PBL", and boy did it open my eyes. I can now see that I needed teachers who put PBL to work. I needed to get up from my desk and engage. I needed to work on a real-world issue and use creativity and problem solving - what are known as 21st century skills these days. This video is an introduction to PBL and how it impacted a science teacher's students and helped their community.

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.

his site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box.T

nice table of PBL core values and write up about PBL in Science.

Unit of work for Second Classroom Project. Students undertake a PBL task using Skoolaborate (http://www.skoolaborate.com) as thier presentation tool. Uses Group Ning for journal and student blog, Group FlickR to document progress. Project could also work using Google Sketch Up and Voice Thread. Final project solutions will be rezzed in Second Life on the Island of Jokadia for external viewing by PBL teachers. Time frame 6 weeks. See the Ning at http://secondclassroom.ning.com for project progress and contact information. Project first delivered April 2008.

A live mash-up of Twitter and Google Earth - very cool if you have not been under a rock and know what Twitter can do for a Personal Learning Network.

Seen this yet? Get a Wiimote for $40, hook it up to a projector ... and build a $5 pen ... download this software and for under $50 you've got an IWB!