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Today's Agenda

Today's Assignments

Notes from Today (still to come)

Today's slides

Today's Agenda

Date:  July 10

Experience a Project: Introducing the learning ahead 3-part observation activity - Where did a little think time take you? What does comparison do?

Instruction:

•    Students@Work - Let's see your wiki and Ning activity!

•    Discuss readings: Professional learning is changing - what do you have to look forward to?! Gwen Solomon's Primer on PBL - What more do you wish to know?

•    Blogs, wikis, social networks, collaborative tools add up to grassroots pd. Examine other Nings - Classroom 2.0 and the Global Education Collaborative

•    Qualities to look for in 21st c. projects.

Activities:

•Meet Philly pbl principal Chris Lehmann on Skype

YELLOW is the activity we missed, will get to in assignments or next class.

• del.icio.us - social bookmarking to make your own sense of the steaming pile of web.

•Tour edublogs: Look who's talking (go to the blogroll, bottom right)

•Tour projects: What makes them work?

Assignment

1) Readings

-RPBL Chapter 3: Imagining the Possibilities - Focus on big ideas

2) Reply to discussion post relating to today's reading on our Ning

3) Read this wikibook Instructional Technology/Project Based Learning list of criteria for quality projects. As you read, think and be ready to discuss: which speak most to you?

4) Follow this link to tour projects. Browse and then examine several winners more deeply. What makes them work? Share your findings by responding in the Ning discussion.

SAVE for NEXT WEEK

Edutopia - Making the case for PBL - PBL Research Summary

Edublogger review – read, reply, reflect, report (reply to ning discussion post)

 (deleted this post for now, will repost next week): Blogs - the PLC side - 07-10-08 - We toured educator blogs and you spent a bit of time digging deeper into edublogs that interest you. What kind of edublog could you imagine following or even creating? Recommend one blog or one idea you picked up from a blog.

Please take today's notes here:

~Notes by Jane~

I captured this in my blog on our Ning (excuse the personal spin).

Today's Slides

What is a Blog?