#TeachTheWeb Assessments as Stories OR Stories as Assessments

I know I may sound like a broken record (is missing packets the mp3 equivalent?) but we need to stress stories of the different Mozilla Web Clubs.

Can we let folks tell their story as a form of assessment? We are looking for friction-free assessment so why not bake it into the workflow of the club leaders.

We are already stressing that Mozilla Web Club mentors or leaders (seeing different titles in different documentation) set up blogs or websites. When you examine the three questions we asked we are getting at mentors impression of the learners rather than the much more difficult to measure knowledge growth in the  learners.

Why not encourage this to be done as a blog post or a discourse thread? The open ended questions would have to analyzed and coded to be useful it would be no different with posts. Plus you get the added benefit of stories.

Stories, as much as people, will empower Mozilla learning.

Pre-Post

This would require more work on part of the mentor but you ask them to do a post before and after the learnign activity. They could be given the three questions we use now as optional post.

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The first response could be a free response and the second could be a considered response.

Debrief

You could just have club leaders post to a blog or discourse after an activity. I lean more towards this. You give the three prompts and ask them to reflect.

To me teaching like a Mozillian would involve using assessments as an opportunity for reflective growth rather than a measure of knowledge growth.