PBL+Book+Resources

//**Reinventing Project-Based Learning: Your Field Guide to Real-World Projects in the Digital Age** by Suzie Boss & Jane Krauss// A link to the Master Teacher Academy Project Based Learning book study: [|Project Based Learning book study ning] [|Global Education Collaborative] [|Tapped In] || Social networking sites designed for educators focused on computer technology and global awareness; k-16 educators, librarians, students, and researchers meet to collaborate, share, and learn || [|GLOBE earth science project] [|Tutorial for Collaborative PBL] [|Internet Project Registry] [|Journey North-wildlife migration] || Review or join existing collaborative projects. The Tutorial provides great ideas for creating your own project, and the Internet Project Registry offers a checklist of categories and then matches projects that meet your criteria. || [|Buck Institute] || PBL resources || [|Assessing Projects] || Create rubrics for your projects or review various assessment strategies and ideas. || [|Drupal] [|Thinking and Writing Wrinkles for elem] || Free web spaces that combine content management framework and blogging engines || [|SurveyMonkey] [|Zoomerang] || free online survey tools || [|screencasts for feedback] [|screencasting tips] [|Top 10 screencasting tips] || all about screencasting-tips and tutorials || [|United Nations school projects] [|US Geological Survey science education] [|Ask for Kids] [|KidsClick] [|Yahoo! Kids] || primary source sites and student friendly search engines || [|ALL about podcasting] || The podcasting directions come from teacher's blog and includes how his high school class did PBL with podcasting. The ALL about podcasting is a __very thorough__ overview of everything you did (or didn't) want to know about podcasting, including examples, project ideas, technical directions, equipment recommendations, etc. || [|National Archives for Educators and Students] [|World Factbook] || Primary Source Repositories and archival collections || [|Zoho Virtual Office] [|Create a Graph] || more collaboration tools || [|bubbl.us] [|MindMeister] || mind mapping tools || [|Illuminations-NCTM] [|google sketchup] || resources for math and science teachers, visual representations for all strands of math || [|Doteasy] || free web hosting services Google sites is formerly google page creator. Anything you may have created and saved in page creator has migrated to google sites. || [|ooVoo] || free video chat services Vickie and I used ooVoo, and it is very cool and easy to use! || [|My Yahoo] [|Netvibes] [|Pageflakes] [|Protopage] || Create personalized desktops and homepages for your students to access anywhere and anytime to give students a space to work and the tools they need for their projects. || [|Blogmeister] [|Blogger] [|WordPress] || Free blogging sites Blogmeister hosts blogs from classrooms in other states and countries and is a great way to collaborate with other students and teachers or to get ideas. ||
 * **//Chapter//** || **//Resource//** || **//Description//** ||
 * 1, p. 23 || [|Delicious] || Organize, tag, and sort your bookmarks and follow others' delicious bookmarks. ||
 * 1, p. 23 || [|Digo] || This site allows you to annotate, highlight, and place notes on websites to share collaboratively-listed in the book as Furl, now Digo. Very cool! ||
 * 1, p. 23 || [|Digg] || Read, post, and share top news stories in a variety of categories. ||
 * 1, p. 24 || [|Edutopia-PBL] || George Lucas Foundation Educational Website share videos, ideas, information, resources, lessons on PBL. ||
 * 1, p. 24 || [|PBL online] || PBL resources for middle and high school students. [[file:ProjectPlanningForms.pdf]]The Project Planning forms provide a great tool for mapping out your project before you begin and remind you of all those little things you might have forgotten. ||
 * 1, p. 24 || [|ISTE] || National Educational Technology Standards for students, teachers, and administrators ||
 * 2, p. 33, 34 || [|Classroom 2.0]
 * 2, p. 36-37 || [|Google Lit Trips] || Google Lit Trips use Google Earth to create placemarks along the road maps of great literature. This 5 page PDF offers tips and instructions for building your own lit trip. Check the archives for completed trips to use with your class.[[file:Building Lit Trips_Basics.pdf]] ||
 * 2, p. 38-39 || [|CIESE collaborative science projects]
 * 3, p. 54 || [|Visual Thesaurus] || visual literacy resource-requires Java ||
 * 4, p.62-64 || [|Project Approach for Early Childhood]
 * 5, p. 76 || [|Scrap Action] || nonprofit organization shows teachers how to incorporate reusable materials into environmental and art projects ||
 * 5, p. 83 || [|Rubistar]
 * 5, p. 87 || [|Text Pattern]
 * 6, p. 96 || [|ProfilerPro]
 * 6, p. 104 || [|Netvibes screencast tutorial]
 * 6, p. 110-111 || [|Library of Congress Memory Project]
 * 7, p. 116 || [|iTunesU] || iTunesU has replaced the Apple Learning Exchange mentioned in the book. iTunesU can host all digital content created or curated by educators. The content can be downloaded and viewed with any Mac, PC, iPod, or iPhone. ||
 * 7, p. 122 || [|podcast directions]
 * 8, p. 131 || flat classroom project || This site is an archive of the 2007 project. You can view the project start to finish, including documents, sites, more. ||
 * 8, p. 136 || [|The Thinking Stick] || Blogger Jeff Utecht gives insights on 21st century skills, technology, and global education. ||
 * 8, p. 137 || [|Montana Heritage Project] || The Heritage Project teaches young people to care about the place they live, including both the natural and the cultural environment by making it the subject of serious study. Students are invited to think deeply and clearly about the world around them as they explore the place they live: its relationship to the natural environment, its connections to national and world events, and the many cultural beliefs and practices that shape its unique character. ||
 * 8, p. 137 || [|Tulalip Elementary School] || This website houses a multimedia project used to preserve the native language of this Indian tribe, who lives in Washington State. ||
 * 9, p. 145 || [|Reviewing Student Work] || The Academy for Educational Development has developed a comprehensive process for reviewing student work as an integral part of assessment, expectations, and curriculum review. See the whole process and all its documentation. ||
 * 10, p. 152 || [|Classroom Displays Blog] || Linda Hartley blogs about creating educational classroom displays and give tips and websites to increase the educational value of your classroom bulletin boards and utilize them in projects and student work. ||
 * 10, p. 154 || [|Classroom Displays Photos] || See photos of classroom displays from around the world to get ideas for use in your room or to share your own photos. ||
 * Appendix A, p. 168 || [|Library of Congress for Kids]
 * Appendix A, p. 169 || [|google docs]
 * Appendix A, p. 172 || [|Mindomo]
 * Appendix A, p. 173 || [|Virtual Manipulatives]
 * Appendix A, p. 174 || [|google sites]
 * Appendix A, p. 178 || [|skype]
 * Appendix, p. 179 || [|Children's Digital Library] || more resources ||
 * Appendix, p. 180 || [|iGoogle]
 * Appendix, p. 181 || [|Edublogs]