Reflection #6 Project Launch -- Implementation Strategies, of Reinventing Project-Based Learning

1. Discuss how technology tools can encourage students to be reflective and evaluate their own strengths.
• blogs offer students space where they ca reflect over time about what they are learning.
• profilerPRO is an online survey tool that allows you to identify the learning characteristics of an individual and also among members of a group.
• SurveyMonkey and Zoomerang allow you to set up online surveys.
2. Describe several ways in which you can get students’ minds ready for a project.
• instill passion about a topic that you are able to give to them to be excited to create a project of that topic.
• encourage students to explore and think about the topic. have the students discuss the topic with friends over the week.
• use different media to help students imagine things about the topic such as movies, posters, preview clips, and so on.
3. Discuss the elements of teaching fundamentals first.
• Set the stage for independent inquiry: students use prior knowledge that helps guide them in their future learning projects. 
• share the assessment rubric: students work better when they have a map to guide them in the right direction. a rubric helps the students understand what you are looking for.
4. Describe the important steps in preparing students for using technology in project.
• set up a technology playground
• tap student expertise
• introduce project management tools
• demonstrate
• rely on your technology specialist
5. Discuss ways to promote inquiry and deep learning.
• guide students as they choose questions, plan investigations, and begin to put their plan into action. 
• challenge students to explore their own interests 
• guide students toward skilled questioning by imagining
• use question starters
6. Discussion on how concepts in this chapter relate to your topic/project
• i like that students can be guided to help create ideas for a topic. in our topic there may be other subtopics that interest our students  more so than our original topics. that could help us challenge our students to explore further and give us their input on a survey base program like zoomerang or surveymonkey