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Check this out - ideas to incorporate design thinking in the classroom. Might help jump start a Quest or class activity. Erica and Megan saw this in action this past summer. Ask them about it.

A cross between Learning Catalytics and the traditional eclickers. Free to use and sign up. Try it out! If you want help with this, let me know. Link to the actual sign up page: https://getkahoot.com/

This is the app Alan was telling us about for annotating books students are reading for your class. Where they can add questions, respond to your questions and respond to each other.

Another site Alan November shared with us. Perhaps join as a class to get students involved with this project.

This article speaks to the need for culturally relevant pedagogy and its positive impact on classes with children of color.

Andrea Beardsley showed me this resource today and said it's an awesome, free tool she uses specifically for searching, borrowing and tweaking and/or creating and saving rubrics for her classes.

Free Black History Month classes from Masterclass. Thank you to Brooke Canova for sharing this!

This is really interesting look at humanity's impact on the earth.

Brian, thanks for sharing this. I do a climate change project and this will be a good resource to use in my class.

From a student perspective a project is: something you want to share, something you have enough time to thoroughly complete, and on a topic that you find intriguing. :well-designed, open-ended, learner-definable prompt is the best starting place for project-based learning.

Good list of criteria of what makes for a good project. I like the emphasis on connecting with resources (meaning other people or students) outside of the classroom, perhaps even internationally. Does anyone know of a clearinghouse of classrooms and/or schools that are looking to connect with other schools or classrooms? I would really like my classes to connect with classrooms in Great Britain to see what their students are taught about the American Revolution.