especially when learning new technology tools. students get the satisfaction that comes from teaching as well.
5. understand your personal enthusiasm is more important than ever. the best projects i have seen have always designed by teachers who are enthusiastic about what they are doing and how they are doing it. the downside to this is that it is very difficult to create recipes for or give examples of specific projects that can be easily adopted by other teachers. a project, no matter how well designed, is going to work for every teacher and every group of students.
6. know that any project may not always work the first time. but these 