Digital Photo Assessment Proposal

DIGITAL PHOTO ASSESSMENT PROPOSAL

For this assignment, you will propose a media-based assessment approach that you can use in a lesson or unit you currently teach as part of your curriculum.

INSTRUCTIONS 1. Reflect on the different ways in which students can use digital photos to create products that demonstrate mastery of content and technology standards. 2. Think of a lesson/unit for which you could assign your students the task of creating a digital photo product that will be used to assess their performance. (Note: We encourage you to use a lesson or unit that you are already teaching, but for which you are using a more traditional assessment approach now). 3. Use the right hand column in each of the tables to respond to the questions.

ABOUT YOU Your Response 1. Your name: Judith-Ann Franco 2. Group member names (if applicable):

ABOUT THE LESSON/UNIT 3. What curriculum area(s) (i.e. subjects) does the This lesson is for Developmental Language Arts ELL students who lesson cover? are learning about the Rain Forest. 4. What is the grade or grade range in which the 7th Grade lesson or unit is taught? 5. Write a very brief summary or overview of the The students will be going to the Dreher Park Zoo in order to build lesson or unit. background knowledge about the rain forest.

ABOUT THE PROPOSED ASSESSMENT APPROACH 6. What digital photo product will your students My students will be using I photo to show what kind of animals and create? (describe briefly) their habitats that they learned about in the zoo. 7. What criteria will you use to assess the digital  The students will be assessed according to how many animals photo products? (list) that they have pictures of and the clarity and color of the pictures. Also the quality of information that they include. 8. What, if any, tools will you use to assess the  Students will be assed according to a rubric. digital photo products? (list) 9. What, if any, other assessments will you use in  Students will do a peer evaluation as the slide shows are this lesson/unit? (list) presented to the class.

THINK ABOUT IT 10. What does a teacher gain from using digital The teacher is able to see what the student has learned. The teacher photo products as part of the assessment for will be able to assess the students as the I photo slide shows are this lesson/unit? (list) being presented. 11. What possible challenges should the teacher The teacher needs to be aware of the technology limitations such as plan for when using digital photo assessment equipment failures, frustrations that students might have with products in this lesson/unit? (list) computer especially if the students have limited computer knowledge. 12. What does the student gain from creating The student has a finished product that they can show to their digital photo products as part of the families. The students are learning and absorbing the information assessment for this lesson/unit? (list) while learning how to use the computers.