Project Based Learning

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Project Based Learning

• Module Four
• Map the Project Part II

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Project Based Learning
Module 2 Craft the Driving Question
Module 1 Begin With the End in Mind
Module 3 Plan the Assessment
Module 4 Map the Project
Module 5 Manage the Process
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Outcomes Map the Project

• Participants will be able to
• Organize Tasks and Activities for their Project
• Decide How to Launch the Project
• Gather Resources
• Draw a Storyboard

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Gather ResourcesThing to Keep in Mind

• Resources always require preparation or training.
• Technological can be a double edge sword.
• Resources should be selected to increase the
  power of the project.

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Storyboard

• Project launch
• Activity sequence
• Drafts
• Rehearsals
• Practices
• Prototypes
• Scaffold lessons

• Rehearsal due dates
• Product due dates
• Exams
• Homework
• Journals
• Reflections

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Thinking Through LinkingTom Marchhttp//www.ozli
ne.com/learning/thinking.html

• Don't look to the Web as if it's an
  encyclopedia. Whenever possible try to pick sites
  that make it the bizarre and powerful resource
  that it is. Try to choose sites that are

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• Current
• Todays Front Pages
• http//www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/
• Authentic
• UNICEF
• http//www.unicef.org/
• Rich
• Rainforest Action Network
• http//www.ran.org/
• Controversial
• ALA Banned Books Week
• http//www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bannedb
  ooksweek.htm

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• Powerful
• 10 X 10
• http//tenbyten.org/info.html
• Relevant
• U.S. National Debt Clock
• http//www.brillig.com/debt_clock/
• Media Rich
• CNN's Video Almanac
• http//cnn.com/resources/video.almanac/index.html
• National Public Radio
• http//www.npr.org/

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Our Goal

• To ensure that
• The student is focused on drawing supporting or
  appropriate information into the project rather
  than just filtering "bad" information out.
• The student gathers information about the
  information.

Evaluating Internet-based Information A
Goals-based Approach David Warlick http//www.land
mark-project.com/evaluation/
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"Is the author qualified?"
"What aspects of the author's background help me
accomplish my goal?"
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Ask Yourself

• When you arrive at the site can you tell
• Who provides, updates and sponsors the site?
• Why is the site provided
• What sources does the provider use?

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Ask Yourself

• Can you maneuver around the site easily and
  quickly?
• How about those plug-ins?
• Is there a fee or subscription?
• Is the page available consistently?
• Are there any problems loading?

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• Accuracy
• possible independent verification? Sources?
• Authority
• Author - Publisher - reputation?
• Professional society? Academic source?
• Reason on the Web?
• Vanity pages? Sponsor? Advocacy association?
• Domain name -who put up the site?
• Objectivity
• checking review sources
• possible bias?
• Currency
• verification
• Critical thinking constant verification

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Evaluate Resources
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The Internet Connection

• Content
• Curriculum site
• Online Museum

• Reference
• Research materials
• Experts
• Online Tools

• Tools
• Collaboration
• Publishing

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Content

• Curriculum Site
• PBS Teacher Source
• http//www.pbs.org/teachersource/
• companion Web sites for more than 1,000 PBS
  programs
• stand-alone resource content for educators

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Content

• Online Museums
• Exploratorium
• http//www.exploratorium.edu/
• Online since 1993, one of the first science
  museums to build a site on the World Wide Web.
• Contains over 15,000 Web pages exploring hundreds
  of different topics.

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Reference

• Reference Resources
• Refdesk.com
• http//www.refdesk.com/
• Since 1995, Refdesk is a free and
  family-friendly web site that indexes and reviews
  quality, credible, and current web-based
  resources.

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Reference

• Experts
• Pitsco's Ask an Expert
• http//www.askanexpert.com/
• A gathering of experts in wide selection of
  categories.

• Internet / Computer
• International / Cultural
• Health
• Resources
• Recreation / Entertainment
• Education
• Repair / Trades

• Science /Technology
• Animals
• Money / Business
• Career / Industry
• Law
• Home Improvement
• Arts / Humanities

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Tools

• Project
• High Plains Regional Technology in Education
  Consortium
• http//hprtec.org/
• a combination of development, collaboration
  tools and resources, designed for online access.

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Tools

• Collaboration
• Tapped In
• http//tappedin.org/tappedin/
• A Web-based learning environment for professional
  development providers and educators

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Tools

• Collaboration Resource
• ePals
• http//www.epals.com/
• A way to employ the Internet as the ultimate
  communication and cross-cultural learning tool.

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Tools

• Publishing Resource
• Words Work Network
• http//wow-schools.net/
• Organize and facilitate a network of
  long-distance-learning writing classes for high
  schools

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Tools

• Publishing
• Blogging
• Blogs in Education
• http//awd.cl.uh.edu/blog/
• Podcasting
• The Education Podcast Network
• http//epnweb.org/

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Learn the Jargon

• Blog a noun and a verb
• Blogger - the author of a blog.
• People who post new journal entries to their blog
  may often say they blogged today, they blogged it
  to their site, or that they still have to blog.

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What is a Weblog?

• The writings are called entries or posts, and
  generally appear in reverse chronological order
• Entries of a certain age often disappear and are
  usually archived.
• Secret Life of Bees
• http//weblogs.hcrhs.k12.nj.us/bees/about

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When Your Sites Meet All Your Criteria

• Make the sites easily available to your students
• Stop the eternal drift by making it easy to get
  to the sites where you want them to arrive
• Use all the tech tools at your disposal on the
  web to accomplish your purposes
• Create a lasting resource so that you do not have
  to constantly reinvent the wheel