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This beautiful novel opens the door to discussions about mental health, family dynamics and so much more.

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

Built by teachers for teachers, use myprojectpages.com to create structured online inquiry-based learning activities for the courses you teach that enable your students to engage in meaningful learning experiences while online.

This is a community for teachers and students interested in global education. Contribute by adding media, conversation, and collaborative project ideas.

9-13 year olds - ready to roll quests or create your own in an immersive virtual world. Quest (project) Learning

Search images for use in projects and save to one place, including the attribution link. Useful for digital storytelling!

A way to make your avatar talk

This is a great way to introduce a new project. You can have a specialist or a person who is the focus of the project talk to the students.

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

Are you looking for a new approach to engage your students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics? NASA's Do-It-Yourself Podcast activity sets the stage for students to host a show that features astronauts training for missions, doing experiments in space or demonstrating equipment. We'll provide a set of audio and video clips along with photos and information about a space-related topic. You and your students may choose as many items as you want to include in your project and download them to your computer. Students may use the information we provide or conduct their own research to write a script for an audio or video production.

Scott Schwister "Read, Write, Act" preso. Features Alec Courosand Project Global Cooling.

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)