Social Networking

In my original GAME plan, I set goals to increase the amount of creativity and innovation that my students are required to use in their projects. In last week's part of the problem based learning unit I described how I wanted to utilize a social networking site like NING to help the students collaborate with other students from around the country. Collaboration can be such an important part of teaching students to be creative because they can see how other people have worked to solve similar problems that they are facing. It forces students to think "outside the box" and I believe this is a critical skill they need. During the remainder of the summer I plan on spending some time learning more about NING and Moodle so I can use them with my classes next year for collaboration.