- For weekly reflections created along the way, here is a link to my blog: Considering E-ssessment
Through the last few weeks, many web 2.0 tools have been discovered, examined, used, shelved or cast aside. It has been a valuable time, building an assessment toolbox that I can use with my students. Due to various circumstances, I have yet to present the material from Module II to my second grade students. I will be able to implement these lessons in December, which will be most welcome by all concerned. I am asked again and again, "When do we get to use the computers?" These lessons are the first steps toward their goal, and toward my goal for them of independence in the library.
The format of this course, best illustrated through the jigsaw team* activity midway through the course, required thorough investigation of web 2.0 tools that could be implemented in our own online classes. It is sometimes a stretch for me as a face-to-face K-2 Librarian, but the challenge has changed my approach to this section of my library skills instruction. Required sharing and review of classmate's work gives us many, many more encounters with many other tools that we may put on our mental lists to investigate and possibly employ in the future. If none of our tools is repeated, our own four become 32 potential instruction and assessment tools, plus any that were presented along the way. I am grateful that the course remains open for many months after it officially ends. There were lists and lists of websites given to us and it is nice to have access to them for a while.
* Each member of each team thoroughly investigated an online tool. My review can be found here.