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    Technology based rubrics are rubrics that sets boundaries or basis for students to follow on a certain assignment or task. With a rubric students know their guidelines before starting and can follow along to make sure they are on the right path. I believe that if you can show students the expectations you will have a much better outcome with the end results.
    Clicker assessment tools are small wireless keypads with alphanumeric keypads that are linked to a computer. (Duncan, 2005; Hafner, 2004). Students can use these during classroom discussions to respond to questions. I like this technology because it allows students to be interactive with the discussion by other ways other than sitting and raising their hands and responding. A great example of using this in  a classroom is to allow every student to respond to a question then giving the correct answers. This can give the teacher feedback on where she may need to reteach or clarify what the students believe to be true.
     Inspiration and kidspiration software is a software that can be purchased to help students know and learn new concepts.  Kidspiration can be used for reading, writing, and math skills. I think this could be used in the classroom during any extra learning time that students can get on and practice skills that the teacher thinks they may need a little extra help with. These software's give students games as well as offer lesson plans for teachers to incorporate into their teaching time.

References:
Jonassen, D., Howland, J., Marra, R., Crismond, D. (2008) Meaningful learning with technology.

http://www.inspiration.com/ pulled 11/27/10