A Project Toolbox for Students

Collaboration & Brainstorming

Authentic PBL means that students are designing their own solutions from scratch. From defining a problem or opportunity to planning out a prototype, students need to put their heads together and visualize their plans. Here are some tools that help students put ideas into action. These tools visualize the collaboration and brainstorming process. Adopting digital bulletin boards, sticky notes or mind-maps encourages students to be both flexible and concise with their ideations.

Product Development.

Do your students need a tool to support self-organization in their teams/groups? The most efficient way to communicate your individual progress within a team is often done using a scrum, kanban board, or channels. Using communication tools helps create trust between group members as individual contributions become more transparent. When a team is developing a prototype or final product there are a number of features to be tested. Teams usually move in sprints and hold daily meetings to reflect on obstacles/successes. Students can communicate where/when they need to quickly adapt by moving cards around. Teams can add key stakeholders (customers, users, audience) to their board to ensure their feedback is helping shape the design process.

Presentation/ Showcase.

How can I get my students to develop a presentation that best reaches their intended audience? Provide your students with flexible and creative ways to deliver a meaningful and interactive presentation to any stakeholder. These tools are beginner friendly, yet give students a professional edge!

Monitoring Student Process

We all want to increase student agency by designing student-driven learning experiences, but monitoring 20+ different projects is hard. Spinndle allows you to see each student’s learning process from start to finish so you can meet students where they are at. Everyone on Spinndle is a co-learner. Students act as resources to one another, in order to ideate, create, identify needs, revise and improve work. Ditch the cookie-cutter dioramas, step back and let your students take center stage on Spinndle. Spinndle’s roadmaps help students stay on task and move through their projects independently.

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