Using Web 2.0 Tools for Alternative Assessment of ESL Students

Some of the Web 2.0 tools can serve as alternative assessment tools for student learning.

The overall idea of how Web 2.0 tools can serve as alternative assessment for the students

Examples of some popular Web 2.0 tools which can be used for the alternative assessments.
 

GLOGSTER

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This Web 2.0 teaching tool is a poster-creation tool that allows you to combine text, pictures, graphics, video, and audio into an interactive poster.

An interactive glogs can be used for book reports, math, science, social studies, language arts, poetry, and public service announcements.

Students can upload podcasts that they create to their glogs.

The site also handles video uploads.

Final glogs can be hosted on Glogster or teachers can embed them into a blog, wiki or other web site.

By sharing their glogs with class members and family, students communicate with an authentic audience.

 

Tutorial for producing a glog

WEBDOC

It is a digital scrapbook or rich multimedia blog platform.

Example of a webdoc

# More and more examples of other Web 2.0 tools which can be used as the alternative assessments can be referred to this site.


Source: http://www.web2teachingtools.com/alternative_assessment.html