Project-Based Learning + Multimedia: Adding Value to Students' Education

Michael Simkins; William R. Penuel

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2000 (2000) p. 1830

"Does technology really make a difference in student learning?" Definitely, according to the Challenge 2000 Multimedia Project, one of the original Technology Innovation Challenge Grants funded by the U.S. Department of Education. The Project has...

Topics: Networking Technologies, Educational Technology, Multimedia, Teachers, Students

Learning to Teach with Technology: Strategies for Inservice Professional Development

Karen Cole; Michael Simkins; William R. Penuel

Journal of Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 10, No. 3 (2002) pp. 431–455

This article describes and reports evaluation results for five key elements of the Challenge 2000 Multimedia Project's inservice professional development program. The five elements are: (a) Technology Learning Coordinators (a mentoring system), (b)...

The Multimedia Challenge

William R. Penuel; Barbara Means; Michael Simkins

Educational Leadership Vol. 58, No. 2 (2000) pp. 34–38

Teachers implementing a local history project in Belmont, California, had help from a federally funded technology innovation challenge grant: the Challenge 2000 Multimedia Project. Sponsored by a Silicon Valley school-business partnership, the...