A New Adventure

I am setting out on a new adventure. I must say the school where I teach is not living in the dark ages of education, but I can't say that we are learning in the 21st century, either.  It's time to make a change.  These last 12 weeks of school I am tiptoeing into Project Based Learning (Schlechty) and technology integration.  Next August I am jumping off the high dive.  My mind is constantly spinning with ideas, but trying to organize it all is not going quite as well.

Next week is Spring Break, but when we return I'm going to assign my students a culminating activity to give me some input as to how to proceed.  I've compiled a list of seventeen questions that I'd like students to respond to, but I didn't just want to give them a piece of paper and ask them to answer them.  Since we were going digital, I thought I'd go to Survey Monkey or Zoomerang and create a survey, but that seemed to easy  boring, too.

I've come up with four activities from which students can choose: blog their responses, create a video diary/journal to respond, write a paper (yes, some will choose this); design their ultimate classroom with procedures and all that goes with it.  I think I've come up with a good way to get the information I want, but I guess I'll see.  I'm definitely open to other suggestions.  Comment or message me.