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I was surprised. I learned things from this article. It can be projected in class to teach students also.

From the: Experts & NewBIEs | Bloggers on Project Based Learning blog

The mermaid diaries is a journey by day of Nalalia Zelmanov. It shows her travels in Second Life, but it is more of a journey of her development as a designer and programmer. It has some fantastic resources and links to templates and programming resources that will easily assist newbies in developing their own IP in Second Life

"The Buck Institute for Education (BIE) Staff, National Faculty, & Special Guests blog about anything & everything about Project Based Learning (PBL)."

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.

cross curricular collaboration ideas

When a teacher, school, or district tells parents and community members, "We're going to do Project Based Learning!" the response may vary. You're lucky if some say, "Great news! Students need to be taught differently these days!" but a more typical response might be: What's Project Based Learning?  That's not how I was taught. Why do we need PBL, if (a) our school is already doing well, or (b) what we really need is a better literacy/math program to raise test scores?  Isn't that just a trendy new thing that doesn't really work?  How is this going to affect my child (and me)?  Basically, they're asking for the what, why, and how. Here are some successful strategies we've seen to answer these questions.