Tutorials and Tools for Product Planning
and Production

• www.2Learn.ca Teacher Tools - This are engaging and interactive tools for learning Word Processing, Multimedia, Database, Web Development, Spreadsheet, Assistive Technologies, Videoconferencing and Interactive Whiteboards Receive the TE LUS Learning Connection 2004 Exemplary Use of Technology in Staff Development Award.
  
• Choosing Your Presentation Type - A template to assist students in selecting the best presentation type for their product.
  
• Project Management Planning - Excellent resource that poses questions and considerations for effective project planning. San Mateo County Office of Education ,The Challenge 2000 Multimedia Project.
  
• Planning My Service Learning Project - Guidelines from Ausburg College, A Pre-Service Guide.
  
• An Action Plan Pyramid - Use the Four Keys to Success, Goal setting, Project Contracts, and Rubrics to plan a project.
  
• PowerPoint in the Classroom - (Tutorial) Learn to use ppt in the classroom using Act360 -E-Learning Solutions advice.
  
• Project Manager - (Tutorial) Create Research Projects, establish criteria, monitor assignments, and track student progress.
  
• Online Practice Models (Tutorial) - Learn to use tech tools such as PowerPoint, Inspiration, MS Word, Dreamweaver, and many more.
  
• Microsoft Publisher - (Tutorial) Learn to effectively create documents using MS Publisher.
  
• Modifications to Technology for Lower-Level Readers and Special Needs Students - Lesson ideas to assist students in using technology tools.
  
• Desktop Publishing - This unit is designed to foster entry-level desktop publishing skills with the following software: Microsoft Word, Adobe PageMaker, and Adobe Illustrator. The overarching understanding goal is for students to come out of Desktop Publishing with both a critical eye that appreciates the design and presentation of publications and the ability to design, construct, and publish meaningful, self-reflective products.
  
• Bring Text to Life - This unit is designed to develop speaking, reading and writing for meaning and communicating interpretations of text using videotape technology
  
• See also communicating section of the BCPS Information Literacy Process Model.
• Revise - elementary research process tutorial from the Oregon State Library System

Tools for Peer Review

• Peer Design Review - Design reviews throughout the project give students the chance to learn from each other and learn to critique constructively.
  
• Catalyst Web Tools: Peer Review - Peer Review is a customizable, interactive, online collaborative workspace where participants can post, create and discuss projects, papers, Web pages and other assignments.
• Rate by Others - elementary research process tutorial from the Oregon State Library System

• An Action Plan Pyramid - Use the Four Keys to Success, Goal setting, Project Contracts, and Rubrics to plan a project.
• Project Manager Tutorial - Create Research Projects, establish criteria, monitor assignments, and track student progress.
  
• Developing an action plan for a Science Fair Project - from Elmer's

Assessment Scoring Tools

• RubriStar - Create your own rubrics for specific topics, manage them on line.
  
• Product Assessments for Elementary and Secondary - These scoring tools support student products recommended in the Online Research Models - Scoring tools designed/collected by Baltimore County Public Schools, Office of Library Information Services, using RubriStar Rubric Generator, including models developed by the Maryland Assessment Consortium and the Maryland State Department of Education.
  
• Kathy Schrock's Guide to Assessment and Rubric Information - This is an extensive list of web resources for product assessment and teacher resource.
  
• Writing Benchmark Assessments - Guidelines for creating benchmark assessments aligned with standard.
  
• Teacher Created Rubric for Assessments -Online Professional Development , University of Wisconsin.

Articles About Teaching for Understanding

• What is Understanding? A Deeper Look - Active Learning Practice for Schools ALPS resources for cultivating active, engaged, and thoughtful participants in their own learning practice. The purpose of this site is to create an on-line collaborative environment between teachers and administrators from around the world with educational researchers, professors, and curriculum designers at Harvard's Graduate School of Education and Project Zero.
• Teaching for Understanding: Educating Students for Performance An by Wisconsin Education Association Council article supporting the vision that "to teach for performance is to believe in the capacity of students to create, to construct knowledge and to assign meaning to what they have learned and experienced."
• Bloom’s Taxonomy Breakdown: Roles, Process Verbs & Products from Bloom’s Taxonomy of the Cognitive Domain
• Project Zero's Teaching for Understanding
• Teaching for Understanding - Read great article in American Educator by Professor Perkins, co-director of Project Zero at the Harvard University.
• Teaching for Understanding - Great advice from University of Minnesota, Christine D. Bremer and Catherine Cobb Morocco in article Research to Practice Brief.
• How Do We Know Our Students Are Engaged?:A Case Study from Plimoth Plantation
• Project-Based Learning At a Glance - Great information and resources from the George Lucas Educational Foundation whose mission is to promote engaging learning by promoting best practices in
  K-12 education.