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**Project-Based Learning**
[|PBL Web Ring] Great resource for all things related to project-based learning, including rubrics, research rationale, examples, etc.

[|Why use projects?] Excellent rationale by a local school district that went for the concept

**Teacher Videos**
[|TeachersTV] Info, resources, examples of student work; you might start a collaboration with another class here

[|TeacherTube] How to teach any- and everything in videos made by teachers for other teachers

**Pedagogy: Articles and Blogs**
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Recording of the interactive video Webcast with Jennifer Lebedev of __JenniferESL__ and Dave Sconda of __Englishmeeting.com__ as part of the EVO 2010 Video Session, January 11/12, 2010

Nik Peachey's [|Learning Technology Blog] with links to some great sites: [|Online Video: What does it have to offer teachers and Learners]? Categorizes video online sites in four ways: language development, communication, knowledge resource, authentic genres. (4/09)

Gary Carkin's [|Dramalog] Lesson plans and examples on using drama projects in ESL/EFL. These are readily adapted to video scripting. (10/08)

For TESOL members only, the //VDM-IS Newsletter,// 19,(1), 2008 has a great article on how video projects work with students: [|Promoting Language Acquisition Through Student-Produced Movies] by Mark Deebold, Atlantic City H.S. (2008)

[|ELTA-Rhine] is Andreas Büsing's pedagogy blog. Interesting comments, such as [|this article] on using YouTube videos as a teaching aid.

Trends in Digital Media - 2007 (Elizabeth Hanson-Smith's wiki) - a presentation for the Video & Digital Media IS of TESOL at their academic session in 2007. Lists lots of good tools and suggests directions for multimedia use. The full paper was published in [|TESL-EJ, 11(4)], March 2008.

[|Video Online] - a 2006 article by Elizabeth Hanson-Smith and Mike Marzio describing two important areas of video-based teaching and learning: authentic content and student productions, and the approaches that work with collaborative multimedia projects. //Teaching English with Technology//, 6(2): n.p. [|Video Online References] categorizes the Websites used in this article. (2006)