Seminar 05F - If I Read Another "Bad" Paper, I'll Scream! Developing Alternative Assessments with Technology
Tuesday, October 12, 2010 | 9:30AM–5:30PM | Meeting Room 304B
Session Type:
E2010
The ease with which students can copy and paste information from the Internet, or just order one from a paper mill, has made it difficult and frustrating for faculty to assign traditional papers. In this seminar, participants will learn about a variety of web-based applications so they might critically use them for alternative assessment activities. Today's faculty need to accept, as the National Council of English Teachers notes (2008), that "the twenty-first century demands that a literate person possess a wide range of abilities and competencies [and] many literacies" including the ability to "develop proficiency with the tools of technology" and "create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multi-media texts. Graduates are asked to present material in a multitude of modalities; they are expected to create proposals with images and charts, use video in presentations, and embedded widgets and gadgets in blogs and wikis. Bring your laptop to this session so you can sign up for and use social bookmarking, mobile blogging, collages, maps, and timeline technologies.
Please note that a laptop is required for this seminar
