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This website provides a resource that describes various aspects of authentic assessment. In addition to sharing examples of authentic assessments for different content areas, the author provides flowcharts and step-by-step guidance for develop authentic assessments. Authentic assessments allow learners to demonstrate what they have learned by using concepts in applicable, relevant situations. Authentic assessments provide evidence of essential and generative learning. This website provides a combination of both general steps for developing authentic assessments as well as more detailed descriptions of the "how" and "why" behind this type of assessment strategy. The information at the website is easy to access and follow.

The video explains the importance in performance based assessment. Performance bases assessment is the most appropriate for the multimedia workshop on clickers. Participants in the workshop need to demonstrate that they know how to effectively use the clicker sin the classroom. The video reinforces the need to make students demonstrate their understanding of the content by actually "doing". The instructor must communicate with the participants the expectations of the assessment and the grading procedure. Performance based assessment also lets the participant see if the mastered using clickers. Essential material takes advantage of pre-teaching the content and helping each individual is at least on the basic level. The video explains the importance of authentic assessment in the classroom. Teachers may not be familiar with authentic assessment; therefore, they cannot successfully create an authentic assessment for a workshop or a classroom. The video meets essential learning because the viewer becomes efficient on understanding authentic assessment. The video serves as a pre-teaching and tutorial devise.

This website provides ways to and justifications for incorporating authentic assessments into the classroom environment. It provides examples of traditional assessments and provides examples of what an authentic assessement would look like. In addition, it provides ideas for implementing authentic assessments and guidelines for genterating them. This site would be useful to teachers that are new to incorporating authentic assessments within the classroom.

* Name of the site: University of Wisconsin-Stout Authentic Assessment * URL: http://www3.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/assess.cfm * Brief description of what it allows you to do and how it can be used for essential or generative learning: This is an index of sites to help teachers understand and develop authentic assessment, including ways to grade, the need for rubrics, and several articles to make the argument for assessments that are real-world based. The site is accredited by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE). * Brief explanation of why you found this site to be better than others you found (e.g., more effective, creates better products, easier to use, and so on). There are so many resources here. I need to continue to explore the links.

Online Professional Development Authentic Assessment Includes rubrics for cooperative learning, research reports, eportfolios, PowerPoint/oral presentations, Includes links to many free online testing tools. This can be used for essential learning. I like this website because it offer authentic assessments for powerpoint presentations which I am using in my multimedia workshop. http://www3.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/assess.cfm

This website provides resources for authentic assessments. Resources include rubrics, performance assessments, and tools to generate your own assessments

This site provides great ideas and examples of authentic assessments for a range of content areas. It provides tutorials on how to create and assess authentic assessments through rubrics that are already created or self created rubrics. This is a wonderful tool if you are unfamiliar with the implementation of authentic assessments in your educational environment. 

This site gives an in-depth discussion of authentic assessment and the difference between it and traditional assessment. It includes rubrics and examples, and offers how to apply authentic assessments to portfolios and workshops. I feel this complete approach is important when starting to use authentic assessments, so as to stay true to the purpose.

* Name of the site: Authentic Assessment Toolbox * URL: http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/toolbox/tasks.htm * Brief description of what it allows you to do and how it can be used for essential or generative learning: This is a great site to help teachers develop an authentic assessment for their students. It will be good in the workshop I am developing on Web. 2.0 from the later days when the participants are thinking on what they will develop. * Brief explanation of why you found this site to be better than others you found (e.g., more effective, creates better products, easier to use, and so on). This comes from a knowledgeable source and cites Grant Wiggins.

This is a how-to text on creating authentic tasks, rubrics and standards for measuring and improving student learning. Included are headings on * What is Authentic Assessment? * Why use it? * How do you create Authentic Assessment? * What are the standards, tasks, and rubrics? * How to construct tests. Of the sites explored, this was the most comprehensive, easy to follow, and relevant.

Because it offers a holistic and analytic designs of rubrics to assess criteria.

This site is a how-to text on creating authentic tasks, rubrics, and standards for measuring and improving student learning. The site provides good examples for developing standards or authentic tasks or rubrics. It also gives you step by step directions for creating an assessment. This site is one that I would use often becuase it takes the worrying out of authentic assessment it makes it easier and it's user friendly.

Glogster EDU www.glogster.com The first authentic assessment activity website that I chose is called Glogster EDU. Glogster EDU is a website like no other resource I have ever seen. Glogster EDU is a creative, dynamic and innovative digital outlet for online creations that keeps learners in engaged in course content, and makes teaching and learning more fun (Glogster EDU, 2009). Glogster EDU is a vibrant, multi-sensory learning experience which integrates learner's knowledge and skills into traditionally text-oriented subjects and motivates learner's desire to explore topics in which they may previously have been less interested (Glogster EDU, 2009). The reason I chose Glogster EDU as one of my authentic assessment activities is because I have used it in my classroom and it works great. Glogster EDU is a powerful resource to use with students of the middle and high school levels because its possibilities are controlled by the students knowledge and creativity. Educators can set up assessments easily and quickly using the resources provided by the site host. Glogster EDU can be used for any type of assessment where students need to illustrate their understanding of course content. Glogster EDU also provides its own video site called Schooltube where students can research, watch, and add video to their personal glog adding the much needed audiovisual aspect to projects that normally would have been text based. I also really like the fact that Glogster EDU is a private site monitored by teachers; it gives me a sense of assurance that my students won't be accessing information that could get them or me in trouble.

Glogster allows users to create digital posters that incorporate video, text, pictures, and sound.

Glogster (www.glogster.com) allows teachers and students to create interactive projects. Teachers can design interactive glogs for their students to complete or assign the students to create their own glog for a class project. Either way this allows for the teacher to really control the learning. Mayer (2009) would consider Glogster knowledge construction because students will have to view the videos, read the articles, and examine the pictures that the teacher embeds in their glog to form an opinion or to create their own glog. When a student creates their own glog no two will be exactly the same.

Primarily resources focused on rubrics: development of, use of, student perceptions of, etc. Developed by a university.

This website offers alternative authentic assessments as well as a toolbox for teachers. Even though this is my alma mater, The information presented here is proven to work for educators.

This website from the University of Wisconsin-Stout provides a repository of articles about assessment and how to create assessments and rubrics. Sample rubrics links are available.

This website is a hosting service that allows you to create pages, edit pages and collaborate with people. It provides a wonderful opportunity for students to create projects and get feedback from others. Documents, pictures, graphics and videos can be upload to the site. I chose this site because it was very user friendly with some Office features.

Wikispaces allows users to collaborate online. Features include embedding files and videos, invitations to members, and restrictions for access and editing. Wikis support the principles of generative and essential learning. The collaboration that occurs through the use of a wiki creates an engaging learning environment for participants to process the material they are learning. Wikis are easier to use for collaborative efforts.

o Wikispaces provides a space where learners can collaborate while developing a final product to demonstrate understanding. Pictures, videos, documents, and just about anything can be added to the site. Cognitive processing is at its best with this tool as learners create knowledge together from the material they have studied. o Extremely easy to use especially with the update where the teacher can create a class code to share with students so they can join the class from any wiki account.

Xtimeline www.xtimeline.com The second website that I have chosen to share for authentic assessment activities is Xtimeline. Xtimeline is an online timeline creator that allows users to plot dates, events, plot details and other linear occurrences. Xtimeline is a great tool for authentic assessments because the students create the timeline from scratch and build on their timeline as they continue to work on it. Xtimeline also provides access to previously created timelines for research and background purposes. Xtimeline is capable of creating advanced, organized and visually advanced timelines for free. I especially appreciate the fact that Xtimeline lets members (membership is free) upload pictures to add to the timeline making them much more appealing and interesting to look at. I like Xtimeline because it helps me to observe the linear thinking process of my students. I have used Xtimeline for plot diagramming lessons as well as biography mapping. Xtimeline is a resource that I believe social studies teachers would find extremely useful and purposeful in their classrooms. I also like the physical set up of Xtimeline the tabs, categories and search engine make using this site easy for any user no matter their experience.