Assessing understanding can be accomplished with projects accompanied by rubrics. Create your own rubrics easily with Rubistar. For access to a variety of rubrics for projects, click here.

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Presentation-type resources demonstrate understanding as students summarize and synthesize their knowledge and understanding. Move over, PowerPoint, because Prezi, Google Presentations, and Voicethread are taking your place! Voicethread has the added feature of a virtual discussion centered around the presentation.

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And what about making an interactive ebook with Book Creator or a pop-out book with Zooburst --Or an interactive image or activity with ThingLink or Hot Potatoes?

 

Students also like to create videos with iMovie,  Windows Live Moviemaker, WeVideo and puppet shows with Sock Puppets or podcasts with a recording app or Audacity on the computer.  With Bunsella Bedtimes Story students can also create a recorded story, with their photo and voiceover to images--other students can make audio comments. Voicee allows students to record and send short voice messages, photos, and screenshots to record conversations you can use for assessment.

 

Have students create multi-media posters with Google Drawings or Glogster or flyers with Smore.

 

Students can curate worthy resources around a topic in a collection of hyperlinks, videos, images and resources.  They can use visually-appealing tools such as Pinterest or Symbaloo or they can use Diigo, a bookmarking website, to organize resources based on tag words which allows them to tag resources under more than one category. Middlespot allows students to create a personalized multi-media bulletin board of a wide variety of resources.

 

And for ongoing assessment of understanding, students can write in blogs or create their own websites with Wikispaces or Wix.