Technology Supports Authentic Assessment for President

In my last post I delved into my philosophy of assessing students.  It is rooted in authentic, non-traditional approaches of assessment.  Although it is quite possible that these assessment practices will be traditional in the near future.  This notion is supported by the overwhelming number of technological applications to classroom learning.  Students are now able to show what has been learned in much more exciting ways than just a fixed response test.  Blogs, Wikis, and personal websites, for instance, are excellent tools for students to put together portfolios of learning and receive peer and teacher feedback.  Collaboratve tools such as GoogleDocs and Blogster are excellent for students to learn to work together.  These are just some of the Web 2.0 tools that support Authentic Assessment for president.