Using Technology for Assessment

"A brief but informative booklet has just been released by BECTA titled Messages from Evidence: Assessment using technology. A quick read of only 7 pages, the booklet works from the premise that technology has an important role to play in facilitating assessment for learning. For instance, technology can be used to administer a test and then link each learner to a suitable learning task, based on test results. (This is a key part of the design of e-asTTle, and other programmes such as Mathletics.) Also, using technology can help learners assess" (D Wenmoth, http://blog.core-ed.net/derek/).

Collaborative Computing

Netherpad

Google Apps Education

Office Live Workspace

Adobe Buzzword - read, review, word processing files, slideshows, and photo images.

Zoho - lots of collaboration tools

Crocodoc - takes your file, reproduces it online and provides you with tools to mark it - highlighter, strike-out, sticky notes etc.

Prezi Meeting

Online and Cloud Computing

KAREN - Kiwi Advanced Research and Education Network

National Education Network

Cloud computing with Google

Document conversion for wikieducator

twiducate - social networking micro-blogging for schools.