I had great conversation yesterday about project based learning. I think a well designed project with an authentic audience is the thing that all students need. The conversation surrounded the benefits to honors students. I followed up with this email.
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.
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.
For some reason we have a lot of non standards 7 segment readouts. Brad has documented them for us.
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Why we need NASA. Amen.
Click-drag green circle to pan around the whole image.The Ultra Deep Field obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope is the deepest view into the sky by humankind to date. This image combines 800 frames with a total exposure time of 1 million seconds. The 10.000 galaxies that are visible have distances out to times where the universe was just 800 million years old, one seventeenth of its current age. For more info check the UDF press release at spacetelescope.org.
For a wider but less deep view visit the GEMS Skywalker.
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Awesome Hubble Ultra Deep Field tool. Great for opening devotions.
