I read Nate’s post on Cool Cat Teacher and I have been trying to focus on how I could use these tools to assess students. First of all, it would be pretty easy to determine the understanding of materials based on responses and posts submitted by students. Also, since this is a traditional classroom that is technology based, a teacher would know the students personally and be able to identify unhonesty–as in cheating–very easily. Furthermore, these tools help to reinforce materials that have been taught and I am sure the students are very engaged in participation. Personally, I love writing and I believe through writing one can find the inner person and really determine what thinking is going on inside one’s head. Moreover, these tools offer a nice chance to allow students to display performance assessment. There are a variety of tasks that can be given, using these tools, to determine proficiency of a given set of material and using an observation checklist–by doing this you know just exactly what you are looking for and can grade accordingly–to assess students very quickly. This takes a break from the standard given tests–we all know the students take enough standardized tests and it is important to find a variety of ways to assess students, and these tools could serve as a benefit in this area.