Chapter 9

           The ninth chapter of the book, “Reading, Writing, and Literacy 2.0: Teaching with Online Texts, Tools, and Resources, K-8,” discusses assessment in a Literacy 2.0 environment.  One site mentioned was TodaysMeet. This site was interesting and provides a virtual classroom where students can type comments and questions in real-time while the teacher provides instruction. This site was interesting to explore, but was difficult to see in depth because I was not a part of a specific virtual room, so my view was limited. A teacher who would want to teach a virtual class would really benefit from this site, as well as students who cannot make it to a real classroom. It is a new type of online class that I had not known about before. I do not foresee myself using this site a lot in my career, but it is a useful site and resource to be aware of.

            I checked out the site EverNote.  I could only view and explore with a free trial, but based on the description in the book about the uses of this site for displaying all the assessment data for students. This site allows for analysis across multiple sources and types of data, and is helpful for sharing data with other teachers, school faculty such as reading specialists, and parents. Navigating through the site is easy and clearly labled and includes a tutorial as well as instructions about how to use the website.

            SurveyMonkey is a great site to gather overall thoughts and opinions or to conduct surveys among a class. This app is very user friendly and easy to use. I have used SurveyMonkey before reading this chapter and have found it to be very useful and effective based on the questions and topics regarding the survey for what I wanted. It is customizable and surveys can be read aloud to young children and responses recorded in different ways.