Week 5 Edit, Edit, and Re-Edit (Assessment In E-Learning)

       I'm taking my self through Ground Hog Day with my Bloom Taxonomy doc, Rubric, and higher order assessment objective. Teachers and Educators of the world, I sincerely apologize.
I  envisioned you
as tormentors determined to keep me from enjoying the sun shiny days of my youth with all your assessments and quizzes. Please forgive my "dunce cap" wearing self. I had no idea of the time, effort, edits, and re-edits that you went through to ensure that unappreciative young hooligans like myself could aspire to be something better and greater. I apologize. If I wasn't gainfully employed, I would come back and sit through classes and be the model citizen in the class. Unfortunately, my boss won't give me a note to come back to school. Besides, a guy my size would have an awful time trying to fit into one of those combination desk chairs.

            Okay, I digress. My future online students will have the best assessments that I can create utilizing the latest Web 2.0 tools, knowledge of the subject matter, and good fashioned "burning the midnight oil." The assessment aspect may be important, but I have to tell you the assessment instrument carriers equal if not greater importance. You really have to put a great deal of thought into the creation of lesson objectives. I now know that they have to be aligned and they have to be relevant in order to generate a meaningful and applicable learning experience for my students. I was a bit of a memorization finatic in school. It's not really about memorization, it's all in the application. The $5 (actual worth based on today's economy) question is, " Little Johnny or Little Susie build that bridge based on what they know or what they can remember?"

 Oh, a very important point to mention, while you are in the lab creating your masterpiece, get that second set of eyes for a sanity check. Be prepared for someone to call your baby ugly, but don't suffer in silence.