Today I got this email...
For this class, I have to create a website for an assignment, and am struggling with how to do this and not just be reinventing the wheel since we already do Moodle, Quia, Posterous... I want it to be useful, and I've been wanting to do on-line journals for some time now. Can I pick your brains for ideas? I'd like to do something interactive and get them writing a lot more in Spanish. It would be my dream to have students keep on-line journals where they'd have to write 1x or 2x/week in Spanish responding to in-class topics and discussions. It would be great if the students could decide if each entry would be private or public (but obviously I'd like to read them all). I'm not sure if a blogger site would be the best option for this. Do you know of any site where I could, as a teacher, manage their journals? It would be sort of a mix between a forum and a blog. I'd like for them to be able to log in and have all their journals on one page so they could see their progress, like a blog. It would be great for me as a teacher to be able to see each student's entry to a particular discussion all on one page as well so I don't have to click on 70 different blogs to give them a grade.
Here is my response, what would you have said?
Here is a blog post with some project resources. Specifically this document mentioned in that post is a document I read over before finalizing any plans for a project. Edutopia.org, in spite of the very idealistic name, is also an excellent resource. Here is a great reading list of their favorite articles on project based learning. Two last things, both of them personal. Here is a link to my blog. Here is a link to where I keep my web bookmarks on projects. It will update as I find new interesting things.