Project Based Learning with Multimedia
A Planning Guide
Seventy percent and maybe more of good teaching is good planning. We need to pay careful attention to the way we structure learning opportunities. In project based learning the goal is to maintain a pace that pushes for excellence. Units need to be centered in curricular expectancies, provide student decision making, be collaborative, have real world connections, contain systemic assessment, and incorporate multimedia. Use the following planning guide as a stepping stone from your regular planning process and see if it helps move you closer to project based learning.
1. CONTENT
What do students need to learn, know, or be able to do?
What are the goals and objectives? What knowledge, skills or processes should the students be capable of understanding? What curriculum content will be incorporated?
How does this project support State Curriculum Standards and Frameworks?
What do students need to know before beginning the project?
2. Sustained Effort
What is the time frame for this project?
What is the basic plan?
What are the activities and what are the objectives for those activities?
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3. Student Decision Making
What are the "givens" established by the teacher?
How can content be extracted from students? What is motivation?
What decisions are left up to the students?
How can that be facilitated? How can excellence be encouraged?
4. Collaboration
How is collaboration a part of this unit?
Teacher to teacher, teacher to student, student to student, student to outside source?
How will students be organized?
How grouped and for what reason?
Teacher selected? Student selected? How is student learning best achieved?
5. Real World Connection
How can a connection be made to life outside of school?
What is it about this project that has significance outside of school? What are the connections that make this project have a relationship to their own lives and interests?
6. Systemic Assessment
Does the plan meet the goals and objectives?
How often and in what form should evaluation take place?
What are the checkpoints?
Will students be able to see progess?
What needs to be done to ensure student success?
Who evaluates?
Teacher? Students? Both? How is excellence measured?
7. Multimedia
What media will be used as the culmination of the learning process?
Is the media new or are the students already familiar with it?
Is the multimedia a key component of the overall project?
How will students use the media?
How can a range of media be used?
Three or more is exemplary. Select from medias such as photography, sound, illustration, graphic designs, video, animation, text and include in the final presentation.
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