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==Interviews & Articles – thinking deeply about PBL == 
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #00b7f3; font-family: 'Droid Sans',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|PBL? Am I doing it right?]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #00b7f3; font-family: 'Droid Sans',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Project-Based Learning Immersion: Jane Krauss talks about her new PLP eCourse series]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #00b7f3; font-family: 'Droid Sans',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Dig Deep with Project-Based Learning]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #00b7f3; font-family: 'Droid Sans',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Why I love Project Based Learning]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #00b7f3; font-family: 'Droid Sans',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|PBL in Primary: Who Asks the Questions?]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #00b7f3; font-family: 'Droid Sans',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|PBL in Primary: Making Up the Rules]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #00b7f3; font-family: 'Droid Sans',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|How We’re Cultivating Inventive Thinkers in the Middle Grades]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #00b7f3; font-family: 'Droid Sans',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Cakes, Snakes and Boxes: Passion-based Learning & Early Literacy]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #00b7f3; font-family: 'Droid Sans',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Howard Rheingold & Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach talk passion-based learning, teaching teachers, and connectivism]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #00b7f3; font-family: 'Droid Sans',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Passion-based learning in the 21st century: An interview with Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #00b7f3; font-family: 'Droid Sans',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Passion-Based Learning: An Interview with Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach and Heather Wolpert-Gawron]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #00b7f3; font-family: 'Droid Sans',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|What 21st century teaching, learning really means]

What they’re saying – reflections from participants in our PBL Immersion

 * <span style="background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #00b7f3; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Virtual Visit: Inside our Passion-Based Learning Community] – take a peek inside our PBL Immersion Program!
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #00b7f3; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|A PLPeep’s reflection from the Australia community]

PBL Projects that Worked

 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #00b7f3; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|How do we provide for the health of animals in our local communities?]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #00b7f3; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|What Can We Do About Junk in Our World?]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #00b7f3; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Hidden – A project that worked]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #00b7f3; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Project-based professional learning]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #00b7f3; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Problem-solving an oil spill]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #00b7f3; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Piloting integrated studies with PBL]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #00b7f3; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Dozens of PBL units – chosen by passion and interest – click a header to see more

Other resources

 * <span style="background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;">//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #00b7f3; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Reinventing Project-Based Learning: Your Field Guide to Real-World Projects in the Digital Age] //by Jane Krauss
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #00b7f3; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|The Buck Institute for Education] – Project Based Learning for the 21st Century
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #00b7f3; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|An introduction to project based learning] from Edutopia

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #6d6d6d; display: block; font-family: proxima-nova,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> Academics [|The Khan Academy] [|MIT Open Courseware] [|Stanford Courses on video] [|Open Yale Courses] [|Berkeley Lectures] [|OpenCourseWare Consortium] [|Academic Earth] [|Coursera] [|Learner's TV] [|Connexions] [|edX] [|Investopedia] [|Scitable] [|Free Management Library] [|University of Reddit] [|Cornell's ArXiv (Research Papers)] [|Open Access Journals] [|Scrib] [|Udacity] [|University of the People] Cooking [|Cooking For Engineers] [|Reluctant Gourmet] [|Cooklet] [|FoodPair] [|Epicurious] [|All Recipies] [|Gojee] [|How2Heroes] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #6d6d6d; display: block; font-family: proxima-nova,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> Music [|Ricci Adams' Music Theory] [|Justin Guitar] [|Play Bass Now] [|Andrew Furmancznk's Academy of Music] [|Teoria Music Theory] [|Petrucci Music Library] HowTo + DIY [|Wonder How To] [|Wiki-How] [|5 min] [|Instructables] [|Do It Yourself] [|MAKE Projects] [|IKEA Hackers] [|Let's Make Robots] [|The Chess Website] Languages [|Foreign Service Institute] [|Memrise] [|Visualizing Japanese Grammar] [|Pitch Perfect Pinyin (Chinese)] [|BBC Language] [|Busuu] [|Live Mocha] [|Open Culture Language links] [|DuoLingo] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #6d6d6d; display: block; font-family: proxima-nova,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> Programming [|Google Code University] [|HTML Dog] [|The New Boston] [|Codecademy] [|Free Tech Books] [|Wibit] [|Opera Web Standards Curriculum] [|Mozilla Developer Network] [|MIT's EE and CS courses] [|Michael Hartl's Ruby on Rails] [|Learn to Code the Hard Way] [|Beginner's Guide to HTML & CSS] eBooks [|Project Gutenberg] [|Google Books] [|Bartleby] [|MIT Classics Archive] [|UPenn Online Books] [|Poem Hunter] [|LibriVox Audio Books] [|AudioBooksForFree] Other [|How Stuff Works] [|TED Talks] [|Fora.tv] [|Windows 7, OneNote + more for students] [|Autodesk Software for students] [|Microsoft DreamSpark programs] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #6d6d6d; display: block; font-family: proxima-nova,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**Learning Activities and Games:**


 * [|Asia Society Kids] features online games and activities with an Asian focus.


 * [|BBC Students] features learning activities and games on global topics as well as resources on current events and issues from around the globe.


 * [|Global School Net's Online Expeditions] hosts several virtual field trips that allow young people to follow real trips online through daily updates of text, video, and photos. Their [|iPoPP] site helps to match students around the world on global projects.


 * [|Panwapa], is an online virtual world created just for children in the preschool and primary grades, by Sesame Workshop. Activities are designed specifically to help them build respect and empathy for others, to spark an interest in other languages and global learning, and to develop a sense of responsibility as global citizens.


 * [|UN Cyberschoolbus] provides quizzes, games, and "webquests" on global subjects ranging from health to urban development.


 * [|WGBH's Fin, Fur and Feather Bureau of Investigation] (FFFBI) takes children 8 to 13 on virtual missions to solve international detective stories set around the world. Developed in collaboration with National Geographic.


 * [|Whyville] is a virtual city where students can participate in activities and play educational games with others from around the world.


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">International News and Information **


 * [|Google Earth] allows students to see close-up maps of much of the world and to create their own maps as well.


 * [|Link TV] brings diverse international stories and perspectives to American viewers through its satellite television broadcasts and online streaming video.


 * Media stories by youth for youth: [|Time for Kids], [|Y-Press Youth News Network] , or [|World Youth News].


 * The [|Newseum Interactive Museum of News] displays daily newspaper front pages in their original, unedited form. Some front pages may contain material that is objectionable to some visitors. Viewer discretion is advised.


 * [|World Almanac for Kids] has resources for younger children, including basic facts about each country as well as information about how children live around the world and quizzes and games. (subscription required)


 * [|World Bank's YouThink!] Website for students includes facts, stories, quizzes, slideshows, and multimedia resources on international development topics. A special section for kids introduces global issues to younger children.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">**General Resources** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;">
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 * [|Crib Sheets] (for Other Google Tools)
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 * [|Chromebooks for Education]

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