Exit Grand Rapids

Posted on June 27th, 2008 by deangroom

What a difference a week makes! With an hour to kill before the 26 hour flight back to Sydney. Here we find our staff still working on their projects. Apart from Gavin that is, playing with his DS. With a brand new Ning based PBL project – that includes a podcast as an ‘Entry Document’, [...]

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PBL and Web2.0 immersion process

Posted on June 24th, 2008 by deangroom

Spending the week at the Napa New Technology Foundation PBL training symposium in Grand Rapids has posed an interesting question around ‘how much Web2.0 is enough?’.
Teachers are learning about developing effective PBL projects, working with 8 schools and staff from all over the US. In doing this I’ve been considering how students move through [...]

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