Assessment and e-portfolio

Assessment activities help teachers to know where the students are individually and as a class. There are different assessments some work on some students but since each student is different as the teacher we need to find which activities work for each of our students. It is important for teachers and parents to know how students are progressing. Portforlios are a great way for assessment, the teacher not only can pick the work that goes in the individual portfolio but the student can also choose their favorite work to put in the portfolio. The student can also see the progress in the work from the beginning of the year to the end of the year. Another good way for a teacher to assess her class is to make a group portfolio, this allows the teacher to see the progress of all her students and create activities for the needs of the students.

An e-portfolio is a collection of electronic data, sort of like electronic storytelling. This is fun for teachers and students, this allows them to put pictures and things that they have done throughout the year to show their parents at the end of the year. I think using an e-portfolio would be easier to create for the whole class instead of using it for an individual student. Computer-based tests, such as, AR tests can be simple for students to use. This allows stduents to take a test when ever they are done reading their books. When taking tests as a whole class it may be harder to have computer-based tests unless you are in a school district that can afford to have a computer for each student to use. I do think that they would be easy for teachers to set up.

As a teacher I will be using portfolios for each individual student, I will use group portfolios for my class so I can keep up with the group needs, and I will use e-portfolios for the times that I have parent show off nights. I can have the e-portfolio going on the big screen for parents to see all that the students have done so far that year. I will also use an e-portfolio to show what my students have done throughout the year.

References:
Jonassen, D., Howland, J., Marra, R., & Crismond, D. (2008). Meaningful Learning with Technology (3^{rd ed.).}

Copy Right and Online Safety

Copy rights and fair use rules are very important. When someone comes up with an idea, makes a new product, writes something, or creates music or movies this belongs to them nobody should have the right to step in and take that from them. In order to help students understand the importance of copy rights and fair use rules I will compare it to cheating on a test, you are taking someone elses answers, they don't belong to them they belong to the person they are taking the answers from.

Online safety is being safe while you are online when your doing different things online, such as, while your shopping, your personal information, websites that you may look at, and your computer not being able to get hacked into. Cyberbullying is a new way for young children or teenagers to bully one another, this is getting extremely popular and extremely dangerous. It is important for us to know what websites are real and what websites are fake, we need to have antivirus software on our computers, we need to monitor what our students are doing on the computer, and we can also put parent locks on certain websites to make sure our students don't get on websites that are inappropriate.

I am learning how to blog I have never even been on a blog but have always thought it would be fun to start a blog, so I am glad that I am learning how to navigate and create a blog. I also think that learning about cyberbullying is important, even though this does not happen in our school or classroom we can still try to help stop cyberbullying if it is going on with our students.

References:

http://home.earthlink.net/~cnew/research.htm http://www.ccsj.edu/blackboard/BB Copyright_Fair_Use.pdf><http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html