This is a project designed for ninth graders, from the ReadWriteThink site, but it has a lot of reusable bits pertinent to college instruction.
The project is a class blogging exercise, the sort that one might use in a blended course. Students post their analysis to a class blog, and then comment on two or more of their peer analyses.
What I like best though, is the rubric. It's clear, and much of it is about the content and presentation of the post the student puts together. But a crucial 12 points on the rubric's 1-100 scale are dependent on the community interaction. In fact, community participation is weighted almost as highly as the other three areas.
Check it out, and let me know what you think.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
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Very interesting Mike! I forwarded it to a Keene High English teacher who thinks the rubric will be very helpful - he has struggled to get his students to comment on each other's posts.
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