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"I believe we are on our way of taking a modern classroom learning opportunity and upgrading assessment forms to match new skills and new literacies while not forgetting traditionally assessed ones. We took a classroom Twitter feed (Part One) , looked at the conversation skills students exhibited during the Skype call (Part Two) and now are moving on to looking at "blog post writing" as assessment. Keeping a previously created blogging rubric in mind, we took a closer look at the blog posts written by the 4th and 5th graders during the actual skype call and edited and formatted after the call had ended."

"Our 4th and 5th grade students(9-10 year olds) have been working with Mike Fisher, co-author of Upgrading your Curriculum and author of children's poems. The goal of their collaboration is to create an eBook of Mike's poems with students' illustrations. Once produced, students will work on marketing, advertising and disseminating the eBook. Over the course of the last few months, they:"

"Teachers are worried that students simply "google" answers to a homework assignment or "copy and paste" entire paragraphs for research papers from the Internet. They are right. Nowadays, it is very easy, fast AND accessible to find answers. So, what do we do? * Do we punish students and fail them if they found the right answer online? * Do we spend our time and energy checking if they did not plagiarize by simply copying from another website into their papers? * Do we use services such as Plagiarism Checker or Turn It In to catch students? John Sowash, The Electric Educator, writes about Google-Proof Questioning"