Project Based Learning

The school's approach to reengaging students in learning has an important twist: Downtown's curriculum is entirely project based. Its alternative format allows students to choose a thematic, integrated pathway of subjects each semester, find connections among these subjects in real-world settings, and, hopefully, discover their passions along the way.

School Grounds Projects Using Google Tools All the information needed to carry out Digital Fieldwork in the school grounds. The manual is based around a 6 session project investigating any aspect of the school grounds and covers the following topics: digital photography, blogging, Google Earth, Google Maps, digital video, and project management.

interesting 2007 salary survey for Asian Internatonal Schools

The Blogging Revolution launched in Sydney in late September at leading independent bookshop Gleebooks. It was recorded and screened on ABC2 and is now available online below. I was in conversation with leading media commentator Kate Crawford:

PrimaryAccess is a web-based tool that offers teachers and students frictionless access to digital images and materials that enable them to construct compelling personal narratives.

hate and lothing in USA over Obama rally. This is so bad.

Amanda's 21C beginning teacher presentation

This is an amazingly perceptive and honest post, which mirrors wht many are thinking right now.

DoodleBuzz is a new way to read the news through an experimental interface that allows you to create typographic maps of current news stories. - cool visual search tool in the Wordle school of fun.

Virtual Worlds Forum blog Exclusive Report: Tweens and Virtual Worlds Comments [0] | 14 October 2008 Dubit Research has produced an exclusive report for the Virtual Worlds Forum giving key statistics for how tweens use virtual worlds and their attitude towards advertising. Dubit Research, a youth marketing agency, runs a standing panel of 600 7-12 year olds in the UK, and has asked them a series of questions relating to which virtual worlds they use and how they feel about advertising in virtual worlds. The results show that 73% of British 7-12 year olds are using some sort of virtual world. Club Penguin leads the pack with 43%, Habbo following with 27%. There is remarkably little fragmentation in the market: only 8% use a virtual world other than the top 10. What surprised me most about the statistics is how even the gender split is on many virtual worlds - entirely even on Club Penguin, and similar on most other games, although Runescape is, as one would expect, far more popular with boys.

This ning network focuses on sharing ideas, strategies, and thoughts on project based learning.