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    Project Based Learning Initiative Proposal for K-12 Classrooms

    Beginning PLANNING Dialogue at the end of this documentThe Project Based Learning Initiative for K-12 classrooms is a hands-on experience that will develop an

    understanding of project based learning as well as Web 2.0 tool applications and their potential in supporting student

    learning. Also, it will provide an opportunity to develop a proposal for professional development of K-12 teachersthrough online collaboration, leadership, and media literacy education using GoogleDocs.

    Your instructor will create a GoogleDocs work space for your group to work out the details of your project as well

    as the place for communicating with each other. This will be available and accessible on October 18.

    In this project, you will be working in a group. One of the group members will become a project leader and he/she

    will be responsible for leading the development of a PBL project proposal for K-12 teachers and their students.

    Also, the project leader will coordinate the work of the group members who will create showcase web or wiki site

    and examples of instructional activities that are aligned and complementary to the goals of the PBL project based

    proposal.

    At this end of this project, the group will produce a school or building level PBL project proposal for one of the

    group members (not the project leaders school) that can be implemented between 2nd and 3rd quarter in a school

    year. This means that this particular group member will be the client and be responsible for providing information

    pertinent to project development. Documentation of the need of the school or grade level is critical in this proposal.

    The 3rd member of the group should be the lead researcher who will provide relevant information from peer

    reviewed articles and related resources in support of writing the PBL project proposal.

    The 4th member of the group should be the lead disseminator. This member should be the lead person for creating

    the web or wiki site that will communicate what the group is doing to meet the requirements of this assignment.

    Finally, if the group has five members, then the 5th member should be the lead person in ensuring that theassessment tools are appropriate for each instructional activities included in the PBL project proposal. Also, this

    member should be the lead person who will design data collection strategies and the evaluation process for this PBL

    project proposal if implemented. However, if there are only four members, then this lead role falls to the project

    leader.

    This proposal should demonstrate effective application of project based learning principles and utilized one or more

    of the technologies experienced in this course. (See the proposal format)

    Evidence of effective collaboration should be transparent in the GoogleDocswork space. This means that you have

    to code your communication postings either by color, tag name, or some form of identification of your own

    choosing so your instructor will be able to identify your contribution. It is important that each group member carry

    his or her own weight in completing this group project.

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    Group Communication, Contribution, and Collaboration STARTS after this line.

    Group D Members, we are going to be communicating here. How about we all pick a color and list what role

    we are interested in. I pick purple and would like to be the lead researcher. If anyone else is interested in

    lead researcher I can take something else. The folder for our completed assignment does not appear to be

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    working when I click on it in my email. Just to give you some background, i am not working in a school right

    now and this is the first time i have ever used google documents. I look forward to working with all of you!-

    Patsy

    Hello Members... I will type in orange. I would like to be the disseminator, which I dont actually think is a

    real word. At any rate, I am open to whatever, but I feel I could most effectively contribute in this role. Just

    let me know what yall are wanting to do. -- Josh

    Hi Team, I will type in blue. I am not sure this is the work space we are supposed to be posting too, but it does

    give us something to start our conversation. If we ever get the folder space to open for us, then we can simply

    cut and paste what we have written to the new area. Thanks for taking that initiative of beginning our

    discussion Patsy! I will be glad to be the project leader, but I am not really sure what any of our roles truly

    will involve. Or I can be the other member which has been named the client. I will do whatever is needed.

    Which do you prefer Keri?

    I understand that we will need to create a web page or a wiki. I have very little experience with designing a

    webpage and I have made a couple of simple wikipages. Josh do you have alot of experience with web

    design? I am just afraid that we all would not have the same web design software needed to edit a webpage so

    a wiki may be the best option. Im sure you have much more creative genius to make a great lookingwikispace . Please let me know what you think is best. If you build the layout or format, we all could begin

    adding instructional activities to it.

    Keri. what age level do you work with in your position? I am elementary teaching in a computer lab. Josh is

    high school and Patsy is not in a school right now. Josh, do you teach technology?

    Lets try to narrow down the age level for our project and decide on the standards to target.

    I am not sure about how to build the teacher professional learning part to this project. Maybe it could be

    introducing some new web 2.0 tools and supplying various grade levels activities using them....just a thought.

    Patsy, see if you can find some research on professional learning modules for teachers involving new

    technologies.

    Obviously as my daughters always told me when they were at home, I know how to give directions....over

    twenty years in education helped too, ha! I sure look forward to working with all of you.--- Ruth

    In the email from Dr. B with the link to this document he said we are to have our discussions here. The folder

    is for posting our files. I have read and reread the pdf. In one section the client is one of the team members in

    another it says we are focusing on the school of the team leader. I wish we had an example of a completed

    project. I think that we might be the teachers with the professional development aspect by participating here

    and creating a proposal. I need to go through this again and create an outline. I would like to have skeleton

    outline about what is needed, what we are doing, and a list of individual responsibilities before beginning

    research. I just do not see what our end deliverables are to be.- Patsy

    10/22/2010 ~ Hi everyone, it is good to see most of you here. Can everyone access the folder, this document

    and the pdf file? You can ask me questions about the assignment here. ~ Dr. B

    Dr. B, I can access everything now. I have read over the pdf directions numerous times. My main confusion

    is in what a project proposal initiative is. I understand all of the roles and see the deliverables, I understand

    that we are each designing a learning activity. Are we designing the learning activities for teachers to learn

    how to implement PBL or are we designing PBL activities for the students? Is this overall proposal for

    teacher development or for the actual projects for the students? Is there an example of a completed project?

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    If not, will you describe in a couple of sentences your idea for a proposal so that I can catch on. For instance,

    this is what I think this project is: Math achievement is not at the level a school would like it to be. Through

    research it has been shown that PBL increases learning and achievement in math. The elementary school is

    going to have a school wide initiative to use PBL for math. The school will accomplish this through faculty

    development to teach teachers about xyz technologies and PBL. Once a month for the remainder of the year

    these PBL activities (the ones the team members design) will be used in the classroom. Activities will be

    described in the technology they use but not standards because it will apply to K-5 grade levels. Is this the

    gist? - Patsy

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    0/25/2010 ~ Patsy, good questions. You are on track. Yes, you are designing a school wide or building level

    initiative to improve student learning. You can pick any grade level or subject area. Yes you will train the

    teachers -- so the need for a faculty development workshop on the initiative. As part of the workshop you will

    show examples in the form of instructional activities that the teachers can use in their classroom. You may

    need to identity standards if your target population is grade level specific. Ask me more if you need

    clarification. ~ Dr. B

    Patsy, thanks so much for your thoughts and the questions you ask of Dr. B. I just reread the second

    document I received that listed more detail of the job responsibilities, but I am still not sure what is

    involved with each role. Im kinda worried about the leader role, but I will try my best. I think we need to

    help each other! And I think we have a group that will work well together.

    Ruth, for my masters degree I was project leader for about 20 projects. I would love to help get us started

    with organization, an outline, and enable us to see this project more clearly. I will post things related to

    this tomorrow (Monday). I think that will help to alleviate some of your fears. You will do a great job!-

    Patsy

    I am also unclear about what the professional learning aspect is supposed to look like. I think seeing an

    example of what is expected would be a great idea. I hope Dr. B. will respond to your questions and ideas

    you presented in your above discussion. Thanks for confirming for me that this is where our discussions

    should be held. I am still not sure about the folder space. Maybe I can get it clearer in my mind as we

    work on the project. I think the mathematics idea is a good one. I know we can find research on math,

    science, and literacy. Math would be difficult for applying PBL activities. I watched a video on it and it

    was way more creative than I am and we are going to have to write activities.We are all going to be

    adding documents i.e. word files. In order to share these documents with each other, they will be posted

    to the folder. This document here is just for communicating. Which is getting messy and I will look into a

    better approach tomorrow. -Patsy

    Another thought about the professional learning aspect that would go along with the research you

    mentioned would be to include some statistic data that would substantiate the need for and success of

    PBL projects in a school environment. It would be an effort to show how effective PBL units could

    improve student achievement. Then we could include examples of quailty instructional PBL ideas to use

    with students that would help teachers get a jumpstart that they could actually use in their classroom andas they begin planning their own units. What do you think. This sounds like the right track to me -Patsy

    The suggestion that we make out an outline for assignments is a great one! Thanks for all your thoughtful

    dialogue. Ruth (Somehow this section of my comments got put above yours, Keri. sorry about that..)

    10/24--Hello everyone! Sorry I havent posted sooner...had to have the email I use to access

    Google reset. I currently teach 6th grade social studies; but I am ok with using whatever grade

    level/content area that works best for you all. I have read through the instructions for this

    project and I am not really sure what we are preparing, or the roles of each group member.

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    Dr. Baylen--An outline of specific expectations would be helpful as we move forward. The only

    group member roles that are really defined are the researcher and the.disseminator What are

    the rest of us to do?

    10/24--Hello Everyone! Sorry I havent been able to post sooner...had to reset the email that I

    use to access Google. I will use green for my postings. I am high school certified, however Icurrently teach 6th grade social studies, but I am ok with whatever grade level/content area

    works best for everyone else. I have read the instructions for the project, but Im still not sure

    exactly what we are supposed to be planning or the

    The full pdf (the link not the one above) does list all of the deliverables and descriptions of each

    role. I think this is where much of the confusion came from. I am still confused on what the

    project proposal initiative is. Glad you are here! -Patsy

    Hi team, see my above post that somehow got shifted above Keris. I am having trouble with the

    google docs page tonight...

    Keri, since you are the only classroom teacher, maybe we should target the 6th grade

    objectives. I was thinking that in the professional learning piece that we could actually put in an

    activity for several different age levels, but after reading the latest pdf file I think we have to

    target to the project leaders school....I am just not sure....Do any of you understand this

    expectation better than I do?....Ruth

    Ruth, I think it is the whole school. Which puts us at middle school for Keris school. I am also

    concerned about client or project leaders school because it is contradicted in the pdf. Since we

    each have to create an activity (I dont think the team leader does) we could each focus on one

    grade. Then divide up the technologies. I will post an organizational idea tomorrow to show this.

    -Patsy

    I just shared a document in our folder. I am copying the contents here too. -Patsy

    Project Based Learning Initiative Proposal

    School wide focus: Middle School Keris School

    Communication Colors

    Ruth-Blue

    Keri-Green

    Patsy-Purple

    Josh-Orange

    Communication Issue: The documentation page is becoming a mess. I thought about posting a different file

    for each area we are working on in the folder section. But, I keep rereading the directions and we are

    supposed to communicate here. What can we do to clean this up? Any ideas?

    Team Roles:

    Project Leader Ruth

    Client KeriLead Researcher Patsy

    Lead Disseminator Josh

    Current Questions 10/25/2010 for Dr. B I am emailing these

    1. Does project leader create an activity?

    2. There is a contradiction in the instructions pdf. Is project leaders or clients school used as the focus?

    3. What is an example of a project proposal? Is this to be a plan for faculty development or a plan for

    instituting PBL in the classroom with activities teachers must use?

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    4. Can we use files in our folder to organize conversation instead of the documentation page?

    Tasks for Project

    Proposal

    Idea: It is suggested that we each take a part of this to write. Ruth guides us on this. The parts are in outline

    in the pdf. We will also need a timeline for part due dates within our team. I would suggest that once we are

    organized about who is doing what that we post our files in the folder to share as we complete them.

    Need: The big question: What problem or need (at Kerris School) in improving academic achievement could

    be accomplished with integration of PBL in 2-5 month period? Math is the first thing that comes to my mind,

    but will be a difficult PBL application.

    Instructional Activity Examples (Keri, Patsy, and Josh) (Probably not Ruth, Ruth gives suggestions to guide

    us)

    Ideas: we each take a grade level, the content focus is the documented need from proposal, we pick two

    technologies (one from class, one Microsoft Office) different from each other,

    Tech list: Word, Excel, PowerPoint

    Comic Life, Blog, Moviemaker, VoiceThread, Wiki, Google Docs

    My feelings about teamwork: All of us are educated professionals. We need to be respectful of one another,

    but waiting for each team member to weigh in with their feelings (which is usually yes go ahead) is not

    efficient. I have no problem with anyone here changing or editing my work and no problem with someonemaking a decision. Decisions need to be made so that we can move forward at a productive clip. The above

    items are not set in stone, they are gleaned from our posts and can be changed. I agree with Ruth, that while

    we have roles, we all need to help each other. This is an overwhelming project and I am sure we all have

    overwhelming lives outside of it. - Patsy

    Answers from email to Dr. B

    1. No -- there was a missing "NOT" in that sentence.

    2. Yes, there was a problem with that sentence -- it is the client's school NOT the project leader's school.

    3. technically there are 3 major pieces --- a project proposal for the overall picture. A workshop for teachers.

    Instructional activities for classroom implementation as examples in the workshop for teachers.

    4. Yes as long as I can follow the conversation occuring within the group. ;-)

    Dr. B

    Original Questions

    1. Does project leader create an activity?

    | 2. There is a contradiction in the instructions pdf. Is project leaders or clients school used as the

    focus?

    | 3. What is an example of a project proposal? Is this to be a plan for faculty development or a plan for

    instituting PBL in the classroom with activities teachers must use?

    | 4. Can we use files in our folder to organize conversation instead of the documentation page?

    I feel clear n this assignment now. - Patsy

    From Ruth; 10-25-10

    Patsy, your input is GREAT! Thanks for getting clarification for us on the above questions. Here is my

    general thought process on this assignment.

    Our target audience will be middle school since that is Keris school level and she is our client.

    Why not make our professional learning workshop focus be on the implementation of Project/problem based

    learning? I completely agree with an additional focus on a content area - Patsy (We will have to target a

    subject area or particular need from within your school Keri so we can show the reasoning behind our

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    initiative....possible suggestions---the need for collaborative planning within grade levels or within cross grade

    level teams; targeting a content area which showed weakness from last years CRCT scores;

    concentration of the new evaluative standards coming down from the national levels core content standards;

    the continued focus on improving technology integration as based on the now state mandated technology test

    for 8th graders----These are just suggestions---

    KERI, you will have to guide us on this because we will need to build our plans around your schools needs.

    For the basic outline for the professional learning workshop, we could :

    give an introduction and explanation of what is involved in PBL units (most teachers have heard of

    it, but do not have a clear understanding of what it is or how to develop instructional units using its

    design)

    document the success of PBL instruction with positive data from research studies

    present solid examples of PBL assignments which address specific middle school standards that will

    give the teachers immediate access to quality instructional units to use in their classrooms

    (These would actually be the activities that we are required to design within this project)

    This is just an idea but I think it has potential to utilize all the the required tasks for this module.

    The improving achievement piece would be addressed through the research statistical data on how

    successful PBL has been shown to be in improving student outcomes upon its implementation-

    (according to the pdf instructions we need 10 peer review articles to support our initiative- Will getas soon as content area is decided-Patsy

    PATSY- Why dont we go back and look at some of the articles our classmates submitted during our

    previous discussions, I remember several that had current support data for PBL- (Ill help with this.) Will do!

    JOSH-we need for you to go ahead and set up our wiki page and invite us to be participants. We all can then

    begin to add our ideas to it and start make editing suggestions as we build the workshop and create our

    activities. Ruth, I think the Wiki is solely to present our project. We are suppossed to be developing our skills

    with Google Docs. Please check on this I could be wrong. With what I have learned about Google docs. I think

    it will be more efficient for manipulating and sharing documents with each other. I am ok with using a wiki

    as long a we are allowed to. I am including what i learned about Google docs below-Patsy

    ALL-I agree with you Patsy--we all need to critique and make changes which will improve each others work.

    We have to build a wiki and I have to create a CD that continues ALL our work. The best possible way for

    me to get your files is for you to email them to me so I can begin storing them and making backup files......I

    will need your finished product and we will have to establish deadlines so we can have time to proof and make

    corrections.

    We have to submit a budget so lets keep that in mind too as we develop activities---if we are going to use

    Comic Life or Voice Thread or any purchased software--how much will it cost---how much should we pay the

    instructor to facilitate our workshop---do we need to purchase new equipment--what will the cost be for our

    printed resources---

    PLEASE be sure you have read all of the second pdf file Dr. Baylen sent us. This assignment is HUGE and

    has many documents that we have to submit.

    WE need to come to consensus on the focus of our project--I look forward to hearing from you---ruth I am

    fine with whatever is chosen and Keris school needs. -Patsy

    Google docs - I have explored Google docs. My first inclination was that a Wiki would be better as Ruth

    suggested. After all, we feel more comfortable there. Google docs will work ok. We have learned on this

    document that it is easy to add text back and forth. If you follow the link to the folder, you will find this

    document, the pdf of instructions, and my long post from above. The benefit is that we can alter documents

    back and forth to each other, just as we are altering this document. We can also revert to earlier versions in

    case there is a problem. In past team experiences, I frequently had issues with a document being pulled

    down, manipulated, and reposted. The next person would come along and not add to the most current

    document and we would have a mess that would take hours to do a final edit on. This will not occur in Google

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    docs. For instance a new file would be created as Patsys Activity, a new file for Introduction, a new file for

    references. Everything would be easily accessible, easy to manipulate, organized, and easy to pull into one

    paper at the end. I was thinking too (DR. B said it was ok in his response) that we could have a file for

    different discussion topics. This page will quickly become a disaster as we continue discussions. Anyway, I

    found Google docs made sense when I went to the folder. It did take a few minutes to figure out how to

    upload a file. So, I would suggest going to the folder and playing with manipulating the getting started file I

    put there.

    Directions to add file to folder. Left hand side of screen click upload. New window opens to select file to

    upload. After file to upload selected, click destination folder on bottom left. Click on the arrow next to folders

    shared with me. Our folder will appear click it, then click ok and boom file will appear to all of us. -Patsy

    Ladies... sorry it has been awhile since I was on here. I honestly forgot we were working here and I have been

    busy taking care of other things. I will set up the Wiki and get you all on board tonight or tomorrow.

    Forgive my slackness. I just need to know what we want to call it. Thanks, Josh

    Hey Team, I went to the face to face meeting tonight with Dr. Baylen and have some clarification on our PBLproposal. This is a HUGE project, but we will get this done! There are many tasks for each one of us to do.

    Dr. B. said that we could use some of the student activities presented in our previous class discussion. I am

    going to create a couple of documents and share them to this folder. I will send you an email once I have

    uploaded them.

    Oh also...Dr. Baylen has agreed to give us more time for this project, but we are going to have meet some

    group deadlines in order to get everything ready for the final deadline.

    FYI ---We will have to present this project as our Final on Dec. 8th on campus. Ill be in touch!

    Have a good night. Ill be in touch!

    Im all yours! - Patsy

    Any word on what the title of the Wiki should be?

    Josh, I dont think we are quite ready for the Wiki yet. Let us get a game plan first. I think the Wiki is to

    showcase the finished project. Ruth got info last night that will have a huge impact on how we proceed. I am

    sure she will get it to us this weekend. - Patsy

    Sorry I have not been available the past few days...we have had parent/teacher conferences all week. That

    along with working on the movie maker project has been a lot to squeeze in to a week. Based on the

    instructions I am still not exactly sure what needs I need to look at: are we basing this on professional

    development needs, or curriculum related needs? My suggestion is that we make our proposal around the

    need for teaching training using technology and then target curriculum areas that are weak at your school.

    We have to combine professional training and the development of student instructional PBL lesson. The need

    for teacher training has been established throuhout this course and we know that the state is not allocatingany moneys to fund ongoing teacher training.

    So we are looking at planning professional development series for teachers that can be implemented during

    planning periods since there is no funding for substitute teachers

    Looks like we are all here! -Patsy

    Hi Everyone, We are here. Josh, the wiki will be used primarily to present our Teacher Training project,

    which also included the proposal for the initiative, the PBL instructional activities that we create which have

    several layers of tasks with them, assessment, planning, procedures. etc.....

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    Keri, since you are our client we have to target your school or your grade level. Dr. B. said to consider your

    SIP and look for a need that we can build our project around. We will also need a demographic deswription,

    an assessment of what your school has in place and of what we will need to include in our purchasing

    budget...

    We need to decide now,,,,do we want to focus on presenting a teacher training What is easier? for the

    school or just the grade level. We need to decide on content areas which we will integrate our student

    activities. Dr. B.

    said we could use the ideas presented by our classmaes in our earlier discussion, but I do not remember

    having many from middle school. do you?? Mine might of been, but they can give us inspiration to change

    them over to middle school. There is a video in the resources (materials) section. It is about a math

    classroom that uses pbl. There are numerous activities described there. Stem website also has math and

    science stuff. at least for inspiration for activities. That is good to know....lets not try to reinvent the wheel if

    we can find some good projects available, we are going to have many aspects to each project/ Ok...another

    option--8th grade math scores on the CRCT are a huge concern at my school; if there is good information

    available on math pbl then that might be something else we can consider

    Keri, how about the 8th grade writing test? We could do math and language arts. Many of the technologies

    we have used are good for language arts. Our 8th grade writing scores are through the roof--we have a very

    strong language arts departmentIsnt there now a state mandated technology test for 8th grade? 8th graders do take a technology assessment

    test but I am not familiar with what is included

    Will this be our entire final or is there going to be more added? Sounded like our presentation would be our

    final...I hope so.

    Keri, you teach 6th grade , right? Yes; social studies

    Would y ou be better able to lead us toward 6th grade needs at your school or is that too restrictive?

    6th grade needs would be easier. I can always talk to the other content area teachers for information

    OK--- lets focus on 6th grade standards for the student piece....we will have to design the teacher component

    around the items I listed in th paragraph below....2 web 2..0 tools and oneMicrosoft Office software.

    Ok, which content area do we want to focus on?

    Patsy and Keri, lets look and see what we can find out on the web and then make the ones we like our

    content area. We have to blend each project with more than one area. Keri is Social Studies so we should

    automatically include that. Math is easy to provide research for but difficult to implement. Sounds good to

    me!

    I will need to take a look at my school SIP to see specific areas; but I know right off hand that one area that

    many teachers complain about is that all of our technology professional development focuses on language arts

    and math; so maybe we could look at something aimed more towards science and social studies...just a

    thought

    WE Have a plan!! I will be working on my movie maker project most of the weekend , but I wil put us out an

    outline of this pBL as by Sunday , I hope.....we are going to get an additional week....and we will need it

    ....this project has MANY tasks involved!! Ruth, just to make sure Im doing the right thing...I need to belooking for research that is available on social studies and PBL???

    me too

    Good idea! Another thought that is very recent is the state has determined that the second indicator for

    future CRCT score analysis will be on science, so we could play that up in our proposal.

    Also, we have got to build the student lessons around web tools we have used in this class and one Microsoft

    Office tool. ( so that is VoiceThread, Comic Life. moviemaker, blogs, wiki, or google doc)

    When is the movie maker project due? Monday Monday

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    Ouch. That stinks. Thanks.

    I will create a file that has ideas for content areas and activity ideas and post it tomorrow in the folder. I will

    include stuff from the discussions in class last week too.

    What do I need to be doing specifically? Do you all know how to use the sidebar to the top right? Just click

    on the drop down arrow.Okk No how does that work Josh?? It is a chat thing but we have to doucment our

    conversation.===

    Yep, that is what Dr. B is going to use to grade us.....we have to prove communication.....BUT we are doing

    the most of any othergroup....at class last night,,,,two other groups had not even talked abou their roles......we

    are actually ahead of the others. :)

    That makes me feel a little better :)

    Just wanted to point out that Josh just joined us a few minutes ago and I think he is overwhelemd and needs a

    summary.

    I guess this works for documentation purposes. It is very confusing, but we have to do what we have to do.

    Well... what can I do to get this thing up and running? Since we have done this much, do we have time to get

    through the MovieMaker project first and then dive back into this? I have got to dedicate Friday and Sat to

    my movie,

    Me too. If I am still breathing on Sunday, maybe I can get back to this. Can we all agree to put this on holduntil Sunday or Monday? I am ok with that ...I have got to spend the next couple of days getting the movie

    maker project finished. Amen.

    This never ending page is geting me .I m hoping to set up an organizational chart and other documents and

    upload them as separate pages......but first I gotta do the movie........So letsgre to check back in on Sunday

    night, ok everyone? OK, I will have a folder up with the idea dcument so that we dont have to go crazy

    hunting down ideas. We just need three activitie. But they have t be aligned to multiple content areas? The

    3 activities are just a small piece to this assignment,,,,,,writing the teacher training piece will take the most

    time. OK

    WE have to stay within this folder that Dr. B. created.....he said that last night. When he answered my email

    he said it was ok to have separte files in our home folder for the conversation. Yes that is right we can add

    documents to this folder.

    When you are doing the organizational pages, consider using the drawing function of Google Docs. It is very

    similar to Gliffy, but easier to use... and share. Wishyou were near my school....I will try to find it

    Well, we will do what the good Doc says. We do need a better organizational system though. Just color-

    coding random sentences makes for a pretty mess.

    Ok, just for clarification about my role...is there anything that I need to be adding to our files?

    YES we all have to add many documents to this folder and to he wiki page. Ugh! This is so overwhelmingWe

    will all do it togehter one step at a time!

    I have a budget proposal that I have to get ready by tomorrow, so I need to run. Please email me at

    josh .dempsey @yahoo .com if you need anything. That goes to my phone, so I usually get to it quicker than

    most other forms of communication. Good night all!Thanks Josh! I know we all are going to be a GREAT team! Thanks to everyone....I got to go work on a

    school project....Goodnight!

    Excellent have a good night!

    So for right now I just need to be researching the use of PBL in social studies..right??? and other subject

    areas..

    Can I call you and get some demographic information from you? I will have to work on my movie this

    weekend...but I will get on this next week/ My cell is 678-953-9535, :)

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    Sure...that will give me time to gather all of the information..we have a fall holiday tomorrow, so I am hoping

    to get most of my movie project finished.

    My number is 770-328-5944

    What information will you need so I can go ahead and have everything prepared for you?

    Most of the school demographic info we can get from the state reports online, but we will need an idea about

    CRCT percentages.....etc. Ill try to send you a list of my ideas.!! later in the weekend.

    Thanks Keri...we will get this done and make a A!

    Gotta go! Thanks again for your input.

    Thats fine...whenever you get to it!

    Going to work on another project...talk to you all again on Sunday

    Goodnight all!

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    Dr. B: Please come up with a system that makes your individual contribution visible and transparent to me.