But first ...

• a draft of your major project final report is due today

Network Project-based Learning

• Lifecycle of network learning activities

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Example: The Zero-g World Design Project

• year long
• composed of smaller design challenges

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The Collision challenge

• you're going down a corridor in zero-g, and somebody is coming the other way, on a collision course - how do you avoid each other

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Recreation challenge

• design a recreational activity for a zero-g environment

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Food challenge

• how would food growing, harvesting, preparation, eating, or disposing be different in zero-g?

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Schools: how would they be the same and how would they be different

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Guidelines for Network-based Projects

• Judi Harris' eight steps
• Margaret Riel's five steps
• Levin & Waugh's six steps

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Network Project Stages

• Proposal
• Refinement
• Organization
• Pursuit
• Wrap-up
• Publication

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Educational Network Project Planning Guide

• Javascript prompters

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Running your own web server

• Web66 server cookbook
• Even easier: Mac and Win personal web sharing
• implications of the low cost of running a server/low cost of being a publisher
• being your own publisher (electronic journals, electronic newspapers, electronic books)
• being your own radio station/TV station

For next week:

• Feedback on drafts of major project final reports

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