Module G: Open-ended and Integrated Assessment

Assessment is usually a daunting task for students. A way to minimize the fear associated with assessments is to allow students to present their assessment in a variety of ways. Some ways or presenting assessment as outlined on the UNSW wiki include: A podcast, a digi-text, a digi-timeline, a slideshow, a short film, as a blog or a wiki. A website that can be used to create a digi-timeline for assessment purposes is www.dipity.com. Dipity allows students to create timelines that can include text, images, video links and web links. Dipity is easy to navigate and allows students to create a digi-timeline with ease. Digi-timelines are useful as they allow students to gain a deeper understanding of the importance of particular events, the sequence of actions that lead to a major event and the most important events in a person’s life. A timeline is also chronological making understanding the order of events easier to remember. Furthermore timelines and digi-timelines go over the most important information, which encourages students who are creating timelines to work on their summarizing skills. Research on a person, event or particular topic could be presented creatively in a digi-timeline. Dipity allows students to present their timeline in the traditional format, as a flipbook, as a list or on a map. Dipity also allows students to share their work with their teacher or peers and can also be used collaboratively by students for a pair/group assessment. An example of a digi-timeline about Steve Jobs created (by someone else) using dipity is below.