Sue Hellman's List: Sue's WikesIM Courses

Customizable rubrics for PBL --> select the grade & aspect to be assessed; click the OPEN button for self-assessment criteria you can select from

The previous link is to give teachers a chance to get their kids involved in this festival celebrates what teachers and students can do when they integrate media and multimedia into regular subject area curriculum.

Article often sited by other organizations doing integrating multimedia and PBL

Whitehorse Elementary's take on this -- attaches activities to multiple intelligences rather than curric objectives; the entire school logs its projects in this website. It really feels like these people work together!
(Makes me want to move back up North -- I feel the hidden hand of Ian Jukes in this work)

main page to in Edutopia to connect with all things PBL

*quick summary and pathway to do this
*part of a larger site on Best Practices --> http://www.centralischool.ca/~bestpractice/index.html
*links to Central iSchool collection of resources for Sask teachers --> http://www.centralischool.ca/

from LEARN (Quebec) -- subsections on Theory, Practice, Rubrics, Resources -- based on San Mateo (pblmm.k12) cited near top of this list

non-profit funded by "Quebec-Canada Entente for Minority Language Education" --> have take the leadership role to provide e-learning services to all English schools, promote & support collaboration of English language teachers, publish high quality learning material. Their About Page is an interesting read.

PPT from http://www.dc-uoit.ca/pd/docs/New%20Faculty%20Resources/Project-based%20learning.ppt by Stephen Downes --> short and succinct

mega links list' seems to come from Alberta

"In the words of the Dali Lama (September, 2006 - Vancouver, BC), a central responsibility of the school system is "Educating the Heart." This tenant is the foundation of PROJECT BASED LEARNING which enables students to become 'connected' with education by building vital links within self, between peers, and our local community." I can't really figure out what they're offering but the main statement is inspiring.

*What is Canada's Schoolnet? from 2001
*Project Bases Collaborative Learning with Networked Computers
* Moreover, even though this approach has never become a regular practice in any but a limited number of classrooms, it cannot be viewed as a marginal teaching approach. Indeed, it has taken root in a lasting socio-educational movement that has been proposing major changes in classroom teaching since the very dawn of the twentieth century in both North America and Europe. Depending on times and places, this movement has been associated to the "new" or "modern," "active" or "alternative" school, the school "without walls", "open school", the "activity movement" or "progressive education." I think it goes back to Pestalozzi. Seems a little dated, but think how tech has permeated schools, student life, since the original writing in 1998.
"continuous renewal possible when educators agree to engage in a dialogue"
* a very comprehensive 'text'
* a lot of broken links

"Project: an activity where the participants
have some degree of choice in the outcome.
The result is complete and functional, that
is, it has a beginning, middle and end. Usually,
it spans multiple lab periods and requires
work outside scheduled lab periods."

more from Edutopia -- I particularly like the Simultaneous Outcomes Digram at the bottom of the page.

podcast -- Jane Krauss and Suzie Boss(2007) -- from Moving at the Speed of Creativity -- blog of Wesley Fryer

problem vs project vs inquiry - based learning

Class projects about water, land, air, and energy

ThinkQuests's place for website project development -- a way for students to assemble and present their information and share it with other students & teachers -- also has a comptetion for best website.

Why Integrate into the Classroom? Projects provide a flexible framework for engaging students in exploring curricular topics and developing important 21st century skills, such as communication, teamwork, and technology skills. In addition, students are motivated by the fun and creative format and the opportunity to make new friends around the world. For teachers, a school portal enables quick and easy management of student accounts and review of project work.

*WebQuests are projects posted on the web that are available for online learners when they are ready for them.
"In planning for such learning, we should always start with the end in mind." by Adam Garry, Learning Technology, Volume 3, Number 3, July, 2001. , Ieee, July 30, 2001.