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• faculty candidates
• Javascript & Java applets: "Just-enough" knowledge "Just-in-time"

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
• effective role of video (Free-fall video)

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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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Zero-g 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

• interactive prompters

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Long-shot problems

• SETI at home
• UIUC digital telescope comet search contest

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TAPPED IN

• Guided Tour during lab time - "meet" in "room E511"

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