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Storytelling is an age-old art form. With Web 2.0 and the tools already available on most computers, students can use text, music, sound effects, videos, and more to create a multimedia presentation that links them to the world beyond the classroom. Storytelling has the potential to unleash creativity, engage, and motivate. Applicable across the curriculum, digital storytelling teaches students to work collaboratively and use new technologies, skills they will be required to have in the workforce of the future. This book offers an overview of digital storytelling as well as its variations, including e-portfolios, digital photo essays, and scrapblogs. The many recommendations, overviews, and explanations of digital storytelling tools, along with lists of additional digital storytelling resources, will help educators to apply this exciting technology in their classrooms. Educators will also discover the ways digital storytelling can be used for their own professional development. Digital Storytelling Guide for Educators provides detailed directions to preparation, production, and presentation, and rounds out with a discussion on creating rubrics and evaluating student work. Readers will come away with an understanding of digital stories and the tools needed to create them.

The Project-Based Learning designs on this website were created by West Virginia teachers who worked with the WVDE Office of Instruction through participation in the Teacher Leadership Institute, the Secondary PBL project, content-specific professional development in mathematics, and the Model Schools and Classrooms project

Several educators suggest in the newest issue of Science that schools use video games to simulate the real-world situations in the classroom to help students develop critical-thinking skills and enhance their understanding of science and math and, perhaps, even encourage them to pursue careers in those and related fields such as technology and engineering.

The growing 'place to be' in Second Life for Educators. Community of Jokaydia facilitates all sorts of learning interests and attracts may of the "A" list innovators and EduBloggers. Jokaydia is also assisting with the development of my "Second Classroom" project. Go visit! Like ISTE but different.

Moodle based courseware and collaborative portal for students to learn about game development.

British poet and lexicographer Samuel Johnson said, "Almost every people strength wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess." If you have an image in your mind of what talents people are supposed to have, yet you do not possess them, then you will have a difficult time finding your true strengths. You need to discover and develop who you are. Here are a few suggestions to help you:

Students use problem-based learning strategies and techniques to develop findings and make recommendations, along with preparing a press release in this case study.

Projects in science are provided which take full advantage of Internet resources to help students develop a better understanding of the world in which they live.

This is a introduction to Experiential Learning developed by the University of California.

This is a collaborative workspace for the development of instructional items for the use of the MMORPG, World of Warcraft, in a school setting. 

Six math projects that integrate real-world math problems are presented as a teaching strategy for helping students develop a greater understanding of math.

The state guides developed by authors from the Federal Writers' Project - a WPA group that came to be during the depression - are fascinating snapshots of the country as it was in the early part of the 20th century. They contain quite a lot of history and local stories and can be a wonderful way to compare the regions with how they currently are.

This is an outstanding opportunity to bring a high-quality, immersive educational experience to your classroom or school (ages 10-14). From the University of Indiana and supported by the McArthur Foundation, the program is researched based and provides a number of opportunities in curriculum areas. It is also customizable for your specific educational goals.This is 21st Century Learning at it's finest. Participants must complete the professional development to gain entry for their school or class. Check it out!

This just killed the keyboard, mouse and all the debate about what we need to do with them. OMG. How rich is this guy about to be, when that algorithm goes into commercial development. Is this not kick ass, meaningful research? Stunned.

Thom Markham is a psychologist, educator, and president of Global Redesigns, an international consulting organization focused on project-based learning, social-emotional learning, youth development, and 21st-century school design.  He discusses the connection between Project-based learning and social and emotional learning.  

Projects in science are provided which take full advantage of Internet resources to help students develop a better understanding of the world in which they live.

Minimum 03 years experience in business development. Commercial sales and markets in departments and forces. Product engineering knowledge is required. Ex-Forces men may also apply.

Projects in science are provided which take full advantage of Internet resources to help students develop a better understanding of the world in which they live.

In my Learning Through Projects series, I wrote about crafting questions that drive projects. Developing interesting, relevant, and meaningful driving questions is challenging. To help teachers with project based learning, Global Digital Citizenship Foundation has free publications with ideas and resource links. The publications are PDFs and are licensed under Creative Commons, so you may distribute or print them as long as you do not modify them in any way.