In 1998 we renamed the Autodesk Foundation's national PBL conference "Kids who Know and Do". This was not only to honor the great work that kids across the country were doing, but more importantly to set the record straight--while PBL may be the name of the pedagogy, "knowing and doing" places kids properly as the actor in their own education, the subject and not the object.
Eight years after the World Wide Web was born and thousands of great student projects created and exhibited, can anyone see this great student work, or see it in a coherent and organized fashion? Unfortunately too few schools and organizations have captured this work on the WWW and made it available to their own publics and to the wider national and international publics.
This Great Student Work web page is my attempt to share with you some of the best student work that you can see on the web. With your help this can be continually updated. These are projects that reside on web sites and are represented as web pages, videos, PowerPoints, multimedia documents, text documents, etc. These projects can serve as exemplars to students and teachers and inform policymakers and others about the great work that kids can do.
Please help update this page by emailing your recommendations to me or to PBLnet@yahoogroups.com. These will be shared with everyone on PBLnet.
Please send desriptions
and links to Student Work (individual, team, class, or school) that resides
in two types of sources:
1. Student work on school, school district, or regional education organization
web sites.
2. Student work on national or international web sites.
Napa New Tech's Sample Student Portfolios. METSA Sample Portfolios. [Updated 2011]
High Tech High's Student Portfolios and HTH GSE's Digital Portfolio Page [Updated 2011]
Helen
Barret's Blog on ePortfolios for Learning
[Updated 2011]
Digital
Safari Multimedia Academy in Concord, CA
The Digital Safari Multimedia Academy began in the fall of 1996 as a place where
students could create and communicate their visions in ways that they had not
envisioned before. Go to the Academy
home page and click on
"Student Projects".
North
Coast Rural Challenge Network
See all Current/Ongoing
and Completed Projects . See
Voices
of the Valley, Rural
artists, and the Tidepool
Guide
Eagle
Wing Productions
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has partnered with the students
and teachers of Marshall High School to produce an environmental education video.
Students from Milwaukee's John Marshall High School, North Division High School,
South Division High School, and Rufus King High School have been selected as
the talent and crew of the video.
Dzantik
'i Heeni Middle School, a Co-NECT
School
Click
on Southeast Alaska project.
CNN
Student Bureau
CNN Student Bureau is the official student newsgathering and reporting program
for CNN -- news by, for and about students. The program offers high school and
college or university students worldwide the opportunity to have their stories
published on CNNfyi.com or aired on CNN NEWSROOM and, occasionally, on the broader
CNN News Group.
Starting January 22, 2002, this site will be renamed http://CNNstudentnews.com
Go to http://fyi.cnn.com/fyi/ and see
items under Student Bureau
See "What is Student
Bureau?" at http://fyi.cnn.com/fyi/teachers/what.is/
To see archive Student Bureau stories from students across the world, enter
"Student Bureau " into the CNNfyi.com Search engine.
Global
Schoolhouse Cyberfair
Projects done by teams of students, whole classes, and whole schools from around
the world
http://www.globalschoolhouse.com/cf/index.html
See the 2001 winners at http://www.globalschoolhouse.com/cf/winners/winners2001.html
Thinkquest
http://www.thinkquest.org/
See the ThinkQuest Library at
http://www.thinkquest.org/library/
The library contains unique educational web sites that have been created through
ThinkQuest competitions and programs. The library currently contains more than
5,000 web sites to search and surf. Built by kids for kids to use and learn.
It is also a great place to get ideas for your own project in one of our many
programs around the world.
International
Telementor Program
(from David Neils)
Every year we encourage teachers and students to showcase their work. You can
see examples of telementoring projects at Telementor
Spotlights under the Quick Start section . This year we have some incredible
projects underway.
Project
topics include science fair projects, theatre, interest exploration, career
exploration, seven habits of highly effective teens, and history. Our goal is
simple. We want to help create learning environments where the learner is the
focal point and where grades, GPA, and standardized test scores are distant
byproducts. Every student who can now define academic success based on the execution
of his or her own plan makes our jobs worth every second invested. Contact us
at (970) 206-9352 or davidn@telementor.org.