But first...

• Yiming Jin's online survey
• MST seminar on publishing, Friday, 3:30-5, 242 Ed Bldg
• Add a paragraph at the end of your final report relating your results to a broader context, beyond your particular project.

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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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Computer Uses in Education: A look back and a look forward

• Technology and the future of education
• Implications for today
• The importance of early action

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Technology and the future of education

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Main effects and side effects

• main effects: intended consequences
• side effects: unintended consequences

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Surfing to Serving

• accessing vs. publishing

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The importance of early action

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• Modeling
• Modeling amplified by the net

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Milestones for the rest of the semester

• No class next week (Reading day)
• Post your major project report by Monday, May 6 in Webboard
• Final report: Thursday, May 9 (oral and written), 9am, Room 37, Ed Bldg
  • 10-15 minutes
  • What's the most important and/or most interesting thing you learned from your project?
  • During lab: TAPPED IN