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Today's Agenda and Notes

Date: July 8

Experience a Project: The Glassine Surfer - Activity that generates student interest

Instruction:

It's a Wild Ride - O'Leary Jr. High, Twin Falls, Idaho

• Overview of course,

• The context for change

• Principles of constructivism and project-based learning

• Professional Learning Communities

Activities:

• Start thinking about your plc for this project, get acquainted through our professional social network and wiki

• Ideas exchange – project ideas old, new and makeover-worthy

• Techability - your tech experience. Please take this survey. Click Here to take survey

Assignment

1) Think and talk about stamps, stamps, stamps. Do some of these things: Talk to another person about your stamp. Recall any memory involving stamps. Think about what you know about stamps. Plan to bring in something related to stamps. Be ready to discuss next class

2) Readings

-RPBL Preface, Chapters 1 & 2: Anticipation

-Gwen Solomon, On Project-Based Learning

3) Reflection - reply to blog post on our Ning (social network) on the main page.

Questions: Where are you starting in your pbl journey, and what might you expect to learn from others? In what ways can you mobilize or expand your professional learning community? Why does it matter that you do?

4) Online: Build your personal page on our Ning, interact with one other person in the group.

5) Online: Play in your Student Notes and Sandbox Pages Be ready to show on Thursday.

Please take today's notes here:

THANKS BARBARA! - jk

See the bottom for slides and bubbl.us concept map we created.

Logistics and Planning

*Class is every Tuesday and Thursday. Wednesday will be our Open Labs. However, next Thursday will be the open lab, and Wednesday we will have class.

*Working in teams is part of Project-Based learning. It gives an opportunity for deep conversations between teachers.

*The book “Reinventing Project-Based Learning” shares stories from around the world, and moves through the whole arc of different projects.

“The Private Eye” Curriculum and Stamps

1. Look at stamps from around the world. Start to compare stamps (numbers, words, pictures). Get the students interested!

2. Keep students thinking by stopping there and letting students think about it over night (making the anticipatory set).

3. Think about how “stamps” could go deeper and expand across curriculums.

4. See above for tonight assignment regarding stamps (assignment #1).

Brainstorming Using Concept Mapping Tools

http://www.bubbl.us/

1. Push start, use zoom button to enlarge, use enter and tab to build web.

2. Learners share projects and skills needed to complete projects.

3. Motivation to use sight is that web can be used on learners own time. Also, you are able to embedded it into your blogs or on anthor page, and it is free.

4. What is the result? Sense of accomplishment, different approach to learning, new skills, and being apart of the problem solving process.

Classrooms@work/tools@hand

http://www.netc.org (video of project-based learning and integrated instruction, standard based). Also linked in Wiki under resources. If you wanted to replicate project, everything is on the website.

What made this project work? Teacher introduced concepts, and then in the later stages the topics were embedded in the larger projects. The students collaborated together and took on different roles. Teacher pulled in authentic disciplines. Specific tasks were identified for people and job assignments were precise.

What would the problem solving process of inequity be? Vary types of grouping. Incorporate processing by having student reflect in journal or on a blog where teacher and other kids could respond. Journals can also help capture what is going on throughout the project.

Effective Projects

Iearn.com - site that focuses on real world projects

Reinvented project: Mingling at the Renaissance Ball (see slides)

Interact Units might be a place to start. (Crista)

Wiki

What is a Wiki? Wiki is many to many. There is a home page, and you are able to build from there. When you want to interact with the wiki, just go to edit page. Individual page is a place where only you write. You can also add pages to your own page.

The biggest difference with the Wiki: easy editing, easy to take apart of, at the bottom click on Wiki settings to show pages and you can see who added or edited pages (good management tool). Add google maps and time cameras.

Easy to make as a peanut butter and jelly sandwich!

 Today's  slides 

Bubbl.us Concept Map - What does a project draw on?