Week 2 - All about blogs and wikis

This week's objectives, as listed in our course material, are as follows:

• Distinguish between measurement, assessment and evaluation
• Evaluate use of blogs in an online writing course
• Practice and demonstrate use of educational blogs as a collaborative, reflective assessment technique
• Formulate plans for a student-centered learning environment
• Design learning objectives that are connected to authentic assessment techniques

I was pleased to learn that this week we were going to focus on blogging tools used in education. I have been somewhat of a blogger for a few years now and I see this tool as a valuable one for educators of all subjects. In this course, we will be using the blog as a reflective assessment tool. Weekly, we will add our thoughts about the course and also post assignments. I still look back at my past e-portfolios from classes years ago. It is nice to have all of the work, that I spent so much time producing, easily accessible.