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 * How can technology be used most effectively to support and assess student learning?
 * How can the creation of a student sample help me clarify my unit expectations and improve my instructional design?
 * How can I ensure students will achieve the learning objectives when creating their student projects?

Key Points
 * Planning and developing a student product requires:
 * Answering the unit's Curriculum Framing Questions
 * Demonstrating understanding of concepts, skills, and knowledge
 * Demonstrating higher-order thinking and 21st century skills
 * Creating real-world connections for students
 * Using technology appropriately and effectively
 * The decision to use a particular technology should be based on its strengths in supporting the desired content and learning objectives. Examples of tools appropriate for student projects are:
 * Presentations--for oral presentations, enhanced with pictures, graphs, charts, sounds, video, and hyperlinks to other resources.
 * Publications--for text-based communication, enhances with pictures, graphs, and charts
 * Wikis--for web-based, text-oriented content that allows multiple editors
 * Blogs--for web-based, text-oriented journals that encourage responses from readers