Wednesday, September 9, 2009

PBL Projects Websites

Come and Get Awesome PBL Projects!!!

There are precious website out there or up there waiting for us to explore them!!!

1. Global School Net "Linking Kids Around the World!"

It is a very powerful website to help beginners start their own PBL project in class by following previous cases. The first strength of this site that I found is a strong search options. I can search PLB project that is going on in this semester, past semester, or future semester. It also allows me to do advance search such as search by age, curriculum, the types of technology and information, and collaboration type as well. Once I started searching, the data comes up with brief explanation of date, age of students, project level, curriculum that this project could be used, technology and collaboration type, and, the most important part, project summary. It is very thoughtful and reliable site for novice teachers’ reference and experienced teachers as well. Secondly, I can also find not only this project cases but also abundant web sources and tools in Collaborative Learning Center.


2. FREE (Federal Resources for Educational Excellence)
‘Teaching and Learning Resources from Federal Agencies’

I visit this website that I am recommended by our text book. This site is not a site for PBL project sources but a database of website that I can explore topics that are moderate, classic, and scholastic. The topics can be searched by subject once you click, it will show you the sources with interesting fact provided by FREE.


3. Project Based Learning ‘The Online Resources for PBL’

Who wants step by step guideline for starting PBL project? You can find the steps from this site. Once you sign in, you will be able to search projects, and also there is a guideline for me to start with my own project. There are five principles when I design my own project, and each principle has own explanation and additional information. This is quite amazing part for me when exploring this site, a project that I got from the search is explained very detail. It follows exactly what PBL online site wants them to do. It has every explanation for each design principle. However, if I feel reluctant to start with my own, I can search previous projects categorized by grade level, content/subject area, recommended time frame (I like this part. I can assume how long it will take for students to accomplish a project), and so on.

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