Water Habitat Photo Journals/Websites/Video Production are assessed with: Skills Rubric for use of digital camera, Graphic Converter, Microsoft Word, Claris Homepage, Eudora, Netscape, & Avid Cinema as well as with anecdotal notes on peer collaboration skills, Writing and Reading Rubrics on reading/writing skills and comprehension of science concepts. Click on the link below to see an example of assessing technology skills:

Student work: Website page about the pond trees created by two 2nd graders. (Note: Clicking this link will open new browser window)

Assessment of technology skills/tools checklist for this website page includes:

1. Graphic Converter

• named willow/island image and saved into website graphics folder
• trimmed willow/island image selection
• adjusted size of willow/island image
• adjusted brightness and contrast of willow/island image
• saved edited image

2. Claris Homepage

• selected background color
• created table size using pixels
• created table as 1 column and 1 row
• selected text font size/style/color
• inserted willow/island image in center of table
• selected font, size, and color
• typed text on pond science content
• edited for accuracy of facts and writing conventions
• saved webpage

On this webpage, the two 2nd grade students did all tasks appropriately.

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