Project Based Learning

# Personal files can be stored to create a portfolio of work # Classes change? Students shift? No Problem. Updates are automatic # Files can be accessed from any internet connected computer # Digital drop boxes are automatically created and assigned for each class

Spacehack a directory of ways to participate in space exploration. interact + connect with the space community.

The Point lets anyone start a campaign asking people to give money or do something as a group, but only if the campaign hits a predetermined tipping point.

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)

The perfect way to collaborate on a text document and keep everyone literally on the same page.

Neat 2.5D Video Conference, presentation room. In Beta, Free for now. I liked it.

This looks like an interesting way to measure 21st century and PBL skills.

BBCs excellent online guide to chatting online. Teacher resources and parent advice.

The ALTC Exchange provides learning and teaching resources and functions to support communication and collaboration across the higher education sector. It does this through professional networking tools and search, discovery and repository functions for sharing resources, as well as portals to other learning resource websites and databases

Social network sites, online games, video-sharing sites, and gadgets such as iPods and mobile phones are now fixtures of youth culture. They have so permeated young lives that it is hard to believe that less than a decade ago these technologies barely existed. Today's youth may be coming of age and struggling for autonomy and identity as did their predecessors, but they are doing so amid new worlds for communication, friendship, play, and self-expression. We include here the findings of three years of research on kids' informal learning with digital media. The two page summary incorporates a short, accessible version of our findings. The White Paper is a 30-page document prepared for the MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning Series. The book is an online version of our forthcoming book with MIT Press and incorporates the insights from 800 youth and young adults and over 5000 hours of online observations.

The GTA sessions