Creative TechnologyBased Assessment in the Traditional Classroom

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Creative Technology-Based Assessment in the
Traditional Classroom

• Barbara Messina, English Department
• Stephanie Fells, Information Technology

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WEBLOGS

• According to Sarah Lohnes of NITLE, the National
  Institute for Technology and Liberal Education,
• In the true liberal arts tradition, teachers
• and students are using weblogs to
• effectively break down the walls of the
• classroom, integrating teaching and
• learning with local and virtual communities.

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Learning Outcomes

• Through their blogs, students will
• design a web-based journal
• demonstrate their writing proficiency
• research and integrate ancillary material such as
  related weblinks and clipart
• create and engage in a virtual learning community
  in which to analyze course material
• critically defend their posts through peer
  critiques and questions

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Assessment Strengths

• Dr. David Carraher, a senior scientist at TERC
  notes
• that blogs
• enable students to feel that their contributions
  are not being given exclusively in response to
  course requirements or doing the teacher's
  assignments
• allow students to evaluate others works
• validate emergent ideas students are encouraged
  to present and discuss their pre-polished
  points-of-view

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Sample Blog
Sample Blog
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BROCHURES
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Archive.org
Confidence Video
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Learning Outcomes

• Through their brochures, students will
• integrate visual, auditory and tactile learning
  styles to design an MS-Word-based brochure
• demonstrate their writing proficiency
• research and integrate ancillary material such as
  related weblinks and clipart
• collaborate with team members to generate and
  edit
• brochure content
• merge video and textual content

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Assessment Strengths

• enables students to select and highlight
  text-specific information
• strengthens collaborative interaction
• synthesizes technological aptitude with
  content-specific knowledge

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Brochure Template
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Brochure Sample
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GAMING
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Millennials and Lectures

• Douglas Davis, in his article Millennial
• Teaching writes that Many students find
• the monotasking of book and lecture a
• weak brew to accompany the
• smorgasbord of media to which they are
• wired.

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Learning Outcomes

• Through their games, students will
• integrate auditory and tactile learning styles to
  design a PowerPoint game
• demonstrate their decision-making,
  information-management and problem solving
  abilities
• collaborate with team members to generate and
  edit game content, thus creating a peer-to-peer
  learning community
• merge video and lecture to demonstrate content
  competence

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Assessment Strengths

• enables students to activate and showcase prior
  learning through experiential learning
• strengthens collaborative interaction
• synthesizes technological aptitude with
  content-specific knowledge
• generates immediate class feedback and assessment