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
the researchers determined that face-to-face communication was far more important to an organization’s work than was generally believed.Productivity improved 30 percent with an incremental increase in face-to-face communication
some interesting examples of how cell phones/gps are being used in the field of "collective intelligence." I suspect some of this could be applied to a PBL project. (e.g. have students use pachube to contribute data)
A PDF of his presentation. Relatively basic but has some nice introductory slides that would be helpful to someone who had no experience with PBL or webquests or online projects.
Edmodo - micro bloging - ideal starter blogging for junior high school - learning to use courseware effectively - and also for journal entries in PBL. In Alpha testing.
A research paper by John Seely Brown, Allan Collins and Paul Duguid, one of my favorites - Authors discuss learning theory and how conventional schooling too often ignores the influence of school culture on what is learned in school. Good background for why PBL works, especially the info on using tools.