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What is alternative assessments? I recently took at class and learned different ways to assess student learning. As educators we all know the basic PSSA test that every public school in PA gives to their students. Some districts also give the Four sight Assessment. What are these tests really proving? Teachers and students work on skills to help ease the test, but doesn't that ruin the test validity. Isn't there another way we can see what our students have learned. Alternative assessments are… Continue

I recently read this article on Poll Everywhere: Tap into those Mobile Phones at <http://www.teach42.com/> This article was about setting up a poll on the computer and having your student's text message into the survey. To set it up there is a website you can go to and create and account. The first group of…

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I recently read this article Alert! Employees Abuse the Internet at <http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=466&doc_id=140801&>

By Nicole Fer…

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I did my screencast on a webquest. Next week in my fourth grade science class we are going to do a webquest project. Before I give my students their project I decided to do a walk through on how they are supposed to complete the webquest project.

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I recently read an article on clickers in the classroom at http://www.techlearning.com/story/showArticle.php?articleID=196604803 I personally have never even heard of clickers in the classroom until this past summer. I was taking Intro to Technology and our professor brought them to class. He pu…

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