Suggestions from a New Tech Network teacher on putting together contracts for project work.

Wikispaces adds a new feature called Projects. Intended to help teachers and student teams manage project work.

This might be an unusual use of the Diigo PBL group but I'd love to have people analyze, improve, and add more project sketches to this doc. These are for a book I'm writing on PBL and inquiry. I'll credit the author for any contributions that make it into the book.

This is one in a series on shaping good ideas into PBL units of study.

What real time events can we learn from? Here's a great example. I'd use this site whatsonwhen, "the worldwide events guide," to keep up with public events in places we connect with or study in PBL

I'll use this site whatsonwhen, "the worldwide events guide," to keep up with public events in places we connect with or study in PBL

Better with Practice: PBL Implementation Tips from the Field is a Webinar series of three sessions in February and March 2010. The first session topic is How to Create a Culture of Inquiry in the PBL Classroom. We seek your input in shaping the conversation.

Jane Krauss and Suzie Boss are hosting this series. Hope Diigo friends in the PBL group will help shape the conversation!

Ask students to imagine becoming scientists in a laboratory or archaeologists excavating a tomb, or a rescue team at the scene of a disaster. They might be running a removal company, or a factory, or a shop, or a space station or a French resistance group. Because they behave 'as if they are experts', the children are working from a specific point of view as they explore their learning and this brings special responsibilities, language needs and social behaviours.

Create interactive timelines collaboratively. I could see using this for documenting causation, how one event leads to another. You can add a timeline to any blog or Web page.

ARC Guide for Educators and Students The guide introduces educators and students to the National Archives' Archival Research Catalog (ARC). Searching in ARC to learn more about National Archives' historical documents could enrich a classroom activity, a homework assignment, or a research project. - Methodology I might follow with 8th graders who may serve as research experts to younger kids.

NYPL Digital Gallery provides free and open access to over 700,000 images digitized from the The New York Public Library's vast collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, photographs and more.

OH and you know what I thought of-- Wordles with key words-- when you look under "Advanced" in Wordle they show how you can emphasize (make bigger) certain words based on their value to you.

I wondered if there was easy access to raw info and here it is! Cool sets like Illustrated Newspapers, Women Striving, News in the 1910s, etc.

Here's a site for kids, could examine to find the pages/activities most relevant to study of primary sources.

A great brief on detective techniques - makes examining history a dynamic enterprise!

A group of educators interested in taking advantage of the richness of primary sources for teaching and learning is working together in this workspace.