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Wes Fryer and Vicki Allen, presenters

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Assessment with Web 2.0 tools 

This session will give practical examples of web 2.0 tools for assessing learning.

Online Polling Tools (for getting immediate feedback on student progress)

• SnapPoll.com - free online tools
• Poll Everywhere - simple text message voting and web voting - Wes and Vicki created a quick poll and had audience members vote within a matter of minutes! Can be used to help students collect data or to get feedback on the lesson of the day.
• Zoho Polls - get opinions from others

Blogs - Blogger, LiveJournal, WordPress, other blogs listed on SupportBlogging.com
use as reflection tool for students.

Shared writing - collaborative workspaces where people can write together

• Wikispaces, JotSpot, WetPaint,
• Google notebook - requires plugin to be installed that will allow you to copy info from web sites into your notebook. Wes did a quick example of gathering information on sharks. The notebook can be shared with the teacher or other students for monitoring. Allows teacher to give immediate feedback and keep kids on track.

E-Folios can be used to share students’ best work. A wiki is great for this and Wes and Vicki showed some examples from Vicki Davis’ (the coolcatteacher) site. The History tab also allows teachers to actually see what students have posted and when.

Multimedia - great to use for differentiation, provides an alternative to the traditional written report

Check Vicki’s Wiki for links to the tools discussed.

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