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W hen cheaper video effective permanent record cameras with built-in Ask a student to demonstrate how to solve of student growth. USB connectors were a math problem and capture his exact first introduced, I pined for process (rather than just the answer). Ask a student to one so I could introduce the demonstrate how technology into the classroom. to solve a math I was positive that it would problem and capture not only be a great tool for students to capture their own his exact process learning, but also make my (rather than just the job of collecting authentic answer). assessment more streamlined The student’s thought and effective. Sure, I had process is as important access to a traditional video (if not more important) as camera, but let’s face it: it was supplying a correct answer way too complicated, bulky, is. Not only does capturing and time-consuming. It was the explanation solidify impossible to search through the evidence for underall that videotape to find 5 standing, but the skill is seconds of worth and even also reinforced as the stumore of a challenge to catalog dent “teaches” his process those snippets for a student to others. database. I needed something digital, unobtrusive, and easy Film a completed to manage. I imagined myself being product from a able to call up video clips of student before it a student during Parent/Student/ is sent home. Film students on the first Teacher conferences. Rather than Now we can have our cake and eat day of school, asking them try and retell student achievements, it, too! A student gets to take her what their goals are for the I could simply show—“play by play”— work home and share it with family, what the student had done, allowschool year. but the teacher also keeps a copy of ing us to interpret and assess the This is a piece of footage that will be the product so it can be reexamined student’s performance. If a picture treasured years later, but also can be at a later date. is worth a thousand words, then a pulled out throughout the year so video clip would be priceless. Our the students can self-assess—both Film questions from the students have grown up in a video struggles and successes. class at the beginning of world. It is a medium they are naturally drawn to and comfortable with. a unit, then film them Film the progression of In this Age of YouTube can we answering the same quesfluency on a weekly and make learning more engaging and tions at the end of the unit. monthly basis. compelling by including video in Several successful ways to assess a Students will be more interested in our classrooms? student’s fluency is to conduct a runwatching themselves on video than Over the years, I’ve come up with ning record or a developmental reading they would be in revisiting the tramany scenarios where using video assessment using video. These assessditional KWL chart at the end of would be a beneficial tool in the ments, recorded on video, are an the unit. classroom. 30 | www.techlearning.com http://www.techlearning.com

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