TIE 512- 2nd Blog Posting

TIE 512- Duscuss the evaluation of students' use of technology tools

After reading the article, "Assessing Web 2.0 Projects Through Bloom and Time", my first thought surrounded the simplicity of the evaluation, specifically the multiplication of the number of days a student worked on that specific area.

I do think that the six areas of the breakdown are effective for assessment and I do agree that using these areas of assessment will help focus on the content learned and skills they used to acquire it rather than assessing their knowledge of the actual Web 2.0 tool, in this case.

As I read through the author's explanation of the number designated to each level of learning as it got higher, I suppose it makes sense within this model to multiply it by the number of days spent so that a higher level learning project receives a higher score than a lower level learning project where there was more time spent.

I can see this model being used in a project that calls for more than one of these areas of assessment. In this case we would have a way to have different areas of assessment weighted fairly. Outside of this situation though I don't see where this model would be of much use.