Assessment
in the 21st Century Classroom:�Web-based Student-Generated Content Projects
Edtechist Conference, MEF University, Istanbul, Turkey
April 19, 2015
by Pelin Rau
English Instructor
Ed Tech Teacher Leader
Grammar Tutorial
Why techno-fy Assessment?
It’s a labor of LOVE from start to finish:)
Chemical Party
Rubrics & Criteria
See: bie.org & edtechteacher.org
TRAILERS
Students can create their own trailers of books, plays, poems, short stories read in class on i-Movie or Windows Moviemaker.
Trailers can be easily shared on YouTube via a class channel (See: playlist).
ANTIGONE TRAILER
DIGITALES
Students can turn their narrative essays into digital stories on i-Movie or Windows Moviemaker by first drafting narratives, storyboarding the scenes, then combining images, voiceovers, video segments and sound effects into short movies. Videos can be shared on YouTube via a class channel/playlist. The process and the endproduct can be assessed separately.
KAAN’S DIGITALE
WEBSITES/E-PORTFOLIOS
Students can (collaboratively) design websites on Wix, Weebly or Google Sites to display their portfolio work, journal entries, research findings, class projects, term projects, lab and book reports featuring both text and a rich variety of multimedia.
VIDEOS
Students can use their smartphones to create and film performances, puppet shows, poetry recitations,
demonstrations, parodies, documentaries, unseen scenes, and related to/based on class texts and share them on YouTube.
ANTIGONE’S
HIDDEN LETTERS
BLOGS
Blog platforms such as WordPress and Blogger are ideal for posting reading response journals, character study sketches, lab reports and portfolio work. Images, video and audio can be embedded.
ROMEO & JULIET CHARACTER STUDY BLOG/ VLOG
LIVE POSTERS
Students can design visually appealing book posters, book reports, term projects, and photo essays on Glogster, Tumblr and Prezi. Various multimedia can be embedded into the projects.
SCREENCASTING
Students can design video tutorials, demos and how-to guides using free online tools to learn/ review material, then post on YouTube to share:
Mrs. Rau’s
Google Docs Tutorial
Magazines, Newspapers,
TV Shows & E-books
Over-the-web projects allow students easy collaboration, editing and free publishing and broadcasting to global audiences whose feedback is instant and invaluable.
Games & Competitions
can be designed by students for pre- assessment/review purposes, as formative/summative projects, utilizing free templates available online features of PowerPoint.
Arts Integration: Interdisciplinary Projects
Project Ideas+ http://goo.gl/DtwUnx
Tips for Success
Thank you for your time!
My special thanks go to the Robert College IT Department for their guidance and continued support, my colleagues and students at RC for creating and spreading the wealth:)
References
DISCLAIMER
The images, videos, documents and web projects featured in this presentation authentically created by Robert College Prep and English 9 students in Istanbul, Turkey have been featured here with permission.
This presentation may contain material protected under copyright law. This material was obtained and used following a reasoned analysis of the Fair Use exemption for educators. This presentation may not be reproduced.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:�PELIN RAU
An English instructor and Ed Tech Teacher Leader at Robert College, a 1:1 laptop school, Pelin Rau is currently on leave to pursue an Educational Technology Leadership program at James Madison University, Virginia, USA. She has over 15 years of classroom experience at top schools in Turkey and in the United States. Always having been a technology aficionado in the classroom and in her personal life, Pelin loves to share her best classroom practices with fellow teachers and showcase her students’ digital work whenever she gets the chance at ed tech conferences.