| Yayyy!
YES! I have been looking forward to this show for a long time. I was wondering how the project was going.
Congratulations Brian! This sounds like it was a huge success. Zander had a point about the senioritis thing, but that is typical. Comparatively, it sounded like they enjoyed this project far more than their other classes.
It sounded like you all got some excellent educational data as well in terms of using these types of "authentic learning experiences" in classrooms. Constructivism at its most practical! I do hope you plan on publishing this Brian, in our field i mean. Write something up and shoot it to Educational Technology Research and Development (might as well start at the top) and see what they think. TechTrends might be a good bet too (both peer-reviewed). I know there are some good journals for teaching sciences too, and i will post the names when i remember.
Props to the students too. You guys really contributed a great deal to the reefkeeping community, marine biology, and education techniques. Just an FYI for high schoolers: people like Brian are working to make high school more interactive and engaging (doing "real things" not just reading books and watching movies) and participating in the study and podcast goes a long way to helping encourage these efforts. Who knows you may be the frontrunners in a high school curriculum change where these types of projects are commonplace!
__________________ Samuel
"If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me.... There is magic in it. Let the most absent-minded men be plunged in his deepest reveries--stand that man on his legs, set his feet a-going, and he will infallibly lead you to water, if water there be in all that region."
Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Ch. 1. http://religiousspiritualism.wordpress.com | 
