STABLS teachers

Welcome to the PBL Dream team, Karen.

If you haven't already seen this 2001 video, it's worth the 7 minutes. It's really about a PBL Elementary School in VA. I think it helps me wrap my mind around the role of the teacher in these class projects. Questioning is key!

I'd love to know what this school in Newport News is doing now, more than 10 years later. Certainly worth viewing this video.

I found this rubric linked to the article Lisa K. recently shared. That article addresses finding and using good mentors as well as authentic audiences. I can't wait to see where we go with this.

Follow this link to find K-2 rubric. I'm interested to hear what k-2 make of them. They may be a good starting point.

Here are directions for setting up your blogs and allowing students to keep last year's work. This will enable us to use KidBlog as a multi-year digital portfolio! Yeah!

Interested in starting a wiki? Take a look at some of these.

To this list I would add #TWTBlog. I will let everyone know when they host twitter chats.

We are going to try this...

If you haven't already joined BIE, I suggest you do it now. (Free, of course.) Download this article as a PDF to your iBooks. It is straightforward and clear. It will help you upgrade your practice from "doing projects" to engaging students in designing and creating meaningful projects to address real questions, issues and problems.

I've been using their resources this year in my 7/8 classroom. I've found them really helpful!

Thanks Lisa.

At the end of a project-based learning (PBL) experience, students typically share what they have learned or discovered with an audience. Depending on the project, students might publish their work online, make presentations at a public event, or pitch their ideas to a panel of judges.

Good list of questions to ask when thinking about our Fridays.

If you are interested in making word clouds, check these out and also wordle.net.

Could be a good source for information for our students for our Fridays.