Tools that can be used in Online Assessment:

    Assessment forms an essential part of the teaching process. An accurate assessment must have specific purposes and goals and the design a teacher chooses to use in her assessment depends on these specific purposes and goals. So after putting an aim, an assessment tool is chosen.

 Online Learning has imposed new styles and methods in teaching which urged the use of totally different new types of assessment techniques that can help teachers keep track of their students' work.   Online assessment has become easier for teachers through the different online tools and applications offered throughout the web. These assessment techniques can be engaging and motivating for students much more than the ordinary pen and paper classroom methods and teachers can always  monitor and track their students while working online all the time.

  Through these assessment tools teachers can evaluate their students' progress and can even grade their work if needed.

Hereby I provide a list of some online assessment tools or applications that a teacher can use in her classrooms with a small description hint aside each:

• Google form: Quizzes
• Word wall: Assessment for learning                   

• Socrative: Quizzes
• Jamboard: Formative assessment
• Google Slides: Project presentation
• Poll everywhere: Discussions
• Mentimeter:Quizzes,formative assessment
• Edpuzzle:Formative,summative assessments
• Liveworksheets:Summative,Formative assessments
• Teknologic: Participation
• Google Docs: Exams( Answers)
• Padlet: Participation,formative, peer assessments

 Technology Integration:

  Technology has become an essential part of  our everyday life to an extent that it is used in all aspects of our daily life. At the end we are living in a digital era. So how come we deny its importance and relation to education. Technology has become a predominant part of our students' lives. It has affected the way they think, imagine,  play and perform. This is why we cannot deny the fact that Technology should be integrated into teaching. It is very beneficial for teachers and students at the same time.

Teachers can improve their quality of their teaching and the productivity of their students as well. Using technology in the right way saves time for teachers in preparing and while explaining their lessons. It allows them to create innovative and motivational classroom environment for their learners. Students are not only engaged in the learning that occurs inside their classrooms yet they are also taught how to acquire the important 21st century skills regarding creativity,problem solving,reasoning,communication skills and understand how to use technology efficiently. 

EDUC561

 

EDUC 561- Educational Media and Technology

 1- What do I enjoy in this course?

   Every Monday at 3:30 we attend the educational media and technology course with dr. Amal Farhat. I am really enjoying this course. It is very motivating and engaging. We are learning how to benefit from technology to be able to use it in our classrooms with our students in a productive way by discovering new applications and exciting programs that can make teaching more fun and exciting.

2- What you wish were different?

 I am very satisfied of the content and the activities we are doing during this course and I wish I took it before so that I could have taken advantage of what we are learning during online classes with our students.