Students carry out large and small projects in their classrooms as part of the ongoing instructional program. There must be better practices to insure maximum learning takes place. The goal of this work is to discuss better practices as well as explore effective ways to move into Project-Based Learning as an ongoing instructional strategy.For the past 4 years, the Challenge 2000 Multimedia Project has been in operation in the greater Silicon Valley area. The focus of our work has been to identify and disseminate best practices of Project-Based Learning supported by MultiMedia end products.
This web site is designed to guide someone who wishes to conduct a PBL+MM project, but can comfortably be used by a teacher who simply wishes to use good PBL practices without the multimedia component.
This site is not an official publication of the Challenge 2000 Multimedia Project. It was constructed by Clarence Bakken, a Technology Learning Coordinator for the Palo Alto Unified School District to help the teachers he works with to better understand PBL+MM.
If you find the content in this site valuable, or if you have constructive suggestions, please send them to the author. Credit will be given for contributions which make it into print.
Please follow up on the links which have been provided, as they will web out into a most valuable resource for you as you pursue PBL+MM.
Updated 5/2/99