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This website contains many types of rubrics to fit every need. It gives sample rubics that are adaptable to meet the needs for various assignments. It even has a collaboration rubric. It is easy to use. Since the rubrics are specifically designed for the online learner, it is best for my purpose than the other sites that are for the face-to-face 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

Rubistar can be used to create rubrics for presentations and other creative products. Rubistar is also a free user-friendly tool containing pre-generated rubrics for a variety of subjects and products as well as the option of creating your own. Rubrics can be downloaded or exported into Microsoft Excel.

Quick video tutorial for getting started with Rubistar the online rubric generator.

This site is at the generative cognitive level, as it requires users to construct their own criteria for assessing a multimedia product. It is an effective tool for creating a simple checklist, or rubric, that provides an assessment tool and a criteria document for students. The site features tools for different subjects, and there are links to multimedia checklist tools at 3 different age ranges.

TaskStream is a workflow management system for performance assessments evaluation. The system provides templates for building rubrics, as well as the ability to publish specific assessments for individuals to complete. The rubric templates are especially useful for authentic assessment, as they allow for the creation of low-inference rubrics geared towards true performance assessment. Whether the individual participant uploads and artifact or the instructor chooses to observe the participants, TaskStream can help manage the process and ensure validity and management.

Zunal web quest maker allows teachers to create web quests to present content to students. The web quest can serve as a guide while students explore content on their own. This allows them to delve more deeply into topics of interest. Each web quest has welcome, introduction, task, process, evaluation, and conclusion pages. Membership also allows teachers to search all web quests created on Zunal to use them in their classroom. With a Professional membership, users can copy and edit other user's web quests to personalize them for use in their classroom. Professional membership also allows access to other features, like the ability to embed additional pages, pre-test and post-test, rubric, quiz, map, and games. Using a web quest created by Zunal can help learners manage the information being presented. The evaluation page can be used to promote generative processing. This site is better than other similar sites because of all of the features available, including the ability to edit web quests made by other users and all of the pages that can be added into the web quest, like maps and games.