Group items tagged

This is a common concern of teachers who are new to Project Based Learning. Things can appear to be going smoothly; students have been engaged by the project, they've been learning content and skills, they've been busy and meeting deadlines… but their thinking is not as in-depth and their final products not as polished as they should be. If this is your experience, it's time to ask yourself some questions:

A project is meaningful if it fulfills two criteria. First, students must perceive it as personally meaningful, as a task that matters and that they want to do well. Second, a meaningful project fulfills an educational purpose. Well-designed and well-implemented Project Based Learning (PBL) is meaningful in both ways.

This is a site containing activities that involve online collaboration between classrooms. Classrooms can register for collaborative projects that are featured on the site.

Tagxedo is a fun way to create word pictures for your projects. It is like a Wordle but you can be a little more creative with your design. It is another way to draw your students in and add a little fun to your project.

Charts are a great tool because they communicate information visually. You can design and share your own charts online and for free - supports a number of different chart types like: bar charts, pie charts, line charts, bubble charts and radar plots. Shared by Dana B in her Lib510 project

For the innovation economy, dispositions come into play: readiness to collaborate, attention to multiple perspectives, initiative, persistence, and curiosity. While the content of any learning experience is important, the particular content is irrelevant. What really matters is how students react to it, shape it, or apply it. The purpose of learning in this century is not simply to recite inert knowledge, but, rather, to transform it.1 It is time to change the subject.

Wallwisher is a collaborative tool where students can post thoughts on a subject. It can create a wall of post it notes in real time. You and your students can make connections on your topic or project. Very fun and visual.

This article lists ten top sites for digital collboration in project based learning. From management tools to social gathering sites, this article lists quite a few sites I've never heard of!

This is a lesson plan for a collaborative project involving water. It uses technology tools, and seems to be pretty well thought out.